Thousands of people have launched a campaign to stop an 11-year-old boy being deported to Bangladesh weeks after his little brother died following a long battle with cancer.
Maarij Khan and his mother Mushammat are set to be removed from their home in
Newcastle after the Home Office turned down their bid to remain in the UK.
Now 3,500 people have signed a petition to allow the schoolboy and his mother to stay in Britain, where Maarij’s 10-year-old brother Saffat is buried.
Saffat died of meningitis last month, after his fight a...
The Bangladesh Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has reported a total of nine human Nipah virus cases this year as of Feb. 2015. Of the nine cases, health officials report six fatalities, or a 67% case-fatality rate.
These cases are from 6 different districts. The districts are: Nilphamari, Ponchoghor, Faridpur, Magura, Naugaon, Rajbari. Median age of the Nipah cases 13 years (Range: 2 to 45 years). 5 (56%) were male.
One cluster was identified in Naugaon, consists of three Nipah encephalitis cases,...
The Indian government is likely to soon enact a law for rehabilitation of Hindu refugees from Pakistan and Bangladesh. At a meeting held at home minister Rajnath Singh’s residence, the issue was discussed along with the recent Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh and how to get past the roadblocks in the way of the land acquisition bill.
The meeting was attended by Union ministers Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, Ravi Shakar Prasad and Venkaiah Naidu apart from BJP president Amit Shah, party member Ramlal and RSS functionary Krishna Gopal. Sources sa...
Bangladesh Ambassador Golam Moshi called upon the expat students to be patriotic and loyal to the Kingdom by upholding its humanitarian and religious values.
He was speaking at the Annual Graduation Ceremony of the Bangladesh International School (BIS) in Riyadh on Friday.
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CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE: Bangladesh Ambassador Golam Moshi, center, presents memento to a student at the Graduation Ceremony at the BIS-E in Riyadh on Friday. Mohammed Ayoob, right, and Karim...
BJP’s electoral ambitions may force a major change in a landmark diplomatic initiative being pursued by the Modi government.
BJP brass considers Assam, a major Northeastern state that goes to polls next year, a winning prospect and these poll calculations may result in delinking Assam from the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh for now, reports Economic Times (ET).
ET spoke to several senior officials as well as BJP leaders for this report. Questions to the PMO didn’t receive any response. Officials and politicians who spok...
The quickest way to grasp the nastiness of Bangladesh’s season of political turmoil is to visit the high dependency unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
This is the ward for burn victims from roadside firebomb attacks, collateral damage from the long battle between Bangladesh’s “two ladies,” as the country’s two most important political leaders are known. On a recent morning, Mohammad Nazmul Mollah looked down the row of beds at three men who had been riding beside him in a truck, after unloading a shipment of sand, when a firebomb thrown by a protester smashed through the windshield.
Mr. Mollah, 25, was the lucky one, having jumped out the passenger-side window so quickly that his worst injuries were fractures to bones and kneecaps. The eight men to his right were unlucky: fiv...
Newcastle after the Home Office turned down their bid to remain in the UK.
Now 3,500 people have signed a petition to allow the schoolboy and his mother to stay in Britain, where Maarij’s 10-year-old brother Saffat is buried.
Saffat died of meningitis last month, after his fight a...
