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India wants Mutual Legal Assistance treaty with BD

India today said its interaction in legal matters with Bangladesh can be further strengthened if the two countries sign a mutual legal assistance agreement. India’s views on the issue were conveyed by Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda to Chief Justice of Bangladesh Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha during a meeting here. “The Minister for Law and Justice expressed the view that our mutual interactions in legal bd-indiamatters will be further strengthened if India and Bangladesh are able to have a Mutual Legal Assistance Agreement,” a Law Ministry release s...

Diplomats ask for additional security

Diplomats on Tuesday asked for additional security everywhere across the country. After a government briefing with diplomats, British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Gibson said, “We discussed about strengthening security everywhere.” diplomatsThe briefing which started at 3:15pm at the state guesthouse Padma, was attended by the heads of diplomatic missions, the UN and other international bodies in the country. Two foreigners in Bangladesh, Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella and Japanese Kunio Hoshi were shot dead in Dhaka and Rangpur in...

Terrorism a grim threat in my country: CJ

Chief Justice of Bangladesh Surendra Kumar Sinha today said terrorism has become a serious threat to the security of his country and there was an urgent need to curb activities of groups like IS. Delivering a speech at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) here, Justice Sinha said time has come for the entire world to stand together to fight IS and other forms of terrorism. His statement came in the wake of recent killings of a Japanese and an Italian in Bangladesh CJ BDwithin one week. The Islamic State (IS) has reportedly claimed responsibility for the...

Funds crunch mires Indo-Bangla rail project

Five years after the plan for an India-Bangladesh railway network was approved, uncertainty persists over the project as no funds have been allocated yet, authorities said. “It is not certain when the work for the project would start. No funds have been allocated so far for the Agartala (India)-Akhaura (Bangladesh) railway project,” Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) general manager R.K. Gupta told reporters here on Sunday evening. indo-Bangla railTripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said: “No funds were also allocated for land acquisi...

Foreigner killings sign of deeper crisis, says Moyeen Khan

A senior Bangladesh opposition leader said on Monday the killing of two foreign nationals was a sign that law and order was collapsing and the situation may get worse unless a stalemate between the two main political parties is resolved. [caption id="attachment_20116" align="alignright" width="650"]Moyeen-khan-1 File photo of Moyeen Khan[/caption] The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has staged violent protests since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League won a second consecutive term in January 2014. The BNP boycotted the election...

ADB to help finance India-Bangladesh power link

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to help finance a project to increase transmission capacity of an India-Bangladesh power link to allow Bangladesh to better meet sharply rising power demand. ADB’s $120 million loan to Bangladesh will double the capacity of the existing interconnector which links the power grid of western Bangladesh at Bheramara and the grid of eastern India at Bharampur. adb1The two networks were first interconnected in 2013, under a previous project financed by ADB. New transmission capacity will rise from 500 megawatts (MW) to 1,000 MW,...
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