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BJP mulls keeping Assam out of LBA

BJP’s electoral ambitions may force a major change in a landmark diplomatic initiative being pursued by the Modi government. bd-indiaBJP 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...

British Foreign Office Peer discusses unrest in Bangladesh

A FOREIGN Office Peer visited Bradford to give its Bangladeshi community more details on the ongoing unrest in their native country. Lord William Wallace of Saltaire, Government Minister and spokesman for Foreign Affairs in the House of Lords, yesterday briefed David Ward, Lib Dem parliamentary candidate for Bradford East, about the continuing political stand-off in Bangladesh. [caption id="attachment_14777" align="alignleft" width="300"]brtian foreign peer David Ward with Foreign Office Peer Lord William Wallace of Saltaire[/c...

BD, India jointly to combat maritime crimes

Cooperation in combating maritime crimes and conducting search and rescue operations came up for a discussion at a meeting between top officials of Coast Guards of India and Bangladesh here yesterday. Several issues, including training for Bangladesh Coast Guard personnel, cooperation on combating maritime crimes, maritime bd-indiasearch and rescue and pollution response at sea were discussed during the meeting, an official release said. The meeting is a step ahead in institutionalisation of cooperation between the two Coast Guards, it added. The B...

Kuwait, Bangladesh sign cooperation agreement

The Kuwait House for National Works on Thursday signed a cooperation agreement with Bangladesh to exchange expertise with Bengali armed forces and to establish a pavilion about Kuwait’s history and culture in Bangladesh. Bangladesh-KuwaitKuwait and Bangladesh share a deep relationship over the years, most notably when Bangladesh joined the international coalition in liberating Kuwait in 1991 as well as contributing to removal of mines left behind by the invading Iraqi forces, said Head of Kuwait House for National Works Youse...

Halt cattle smuggling, starve Bangladesh of beef: Rajnath

Days after advocating a nationwide ban on cow slaughter, Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday asked BSF jawans deployed along the Indo-Bangla border to put a complete halt to smuggling of cattle to Bangladesh so that people there give up eating beef. “I am told prices of beef in Bangladesh have gone up by 30 per cent recently due to heightened vigil by BSF against cattle smuggling. You further intensify your vigil so that the cattle smuggling stops completely and prices of beef in Bangladesh escalates 70 to 80 per cent more so that people of Bangladesh give up eating beef,” he said addressing jawans of BSF at this Border Out Post.

Rajnath visits Bangladesh border, talks to enclave dwellers

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, on a two-day visit to West Bengal, surveyed the India-Bangladesh border and visited border enclaves in Cooch Behar district on Tuesday. Although scheduled earlier, Rajnath Singh’s visit to the border came a day after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a charge sheet before a Kolkata court said the terrorists involved in the Burdwan blast had conspired with Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen bd-indiaBangladesh to overthrow the government in Dhaka. Besides holding talks with officers of the Border Security Force (BSF) and the Bord...
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