Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called up the BJP’s prime-minister elect Narendra Modi to congratulate him even as the new government he is set to lead may find it difficult to meet Dhaka’s key expectations.
Hours after the call, the BJP reaffirmed its stand of opposing the deal the two countries’ governments had inked during outgoing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Bangladesh in September 2011.
Hasina and her Awami League government have been upset over the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government’s failure...
Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury hoped for a quick resolution of outstanding issues like the Teesta river and land boundary agreements with the new government in India while stressing the need for further cementing bilateral ties for mutual benefit.
“I congratulate the newly elected leadership in India. A shared history and common heritage consolidated our ties over time,” Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury said while addressing a meeting of the Bangladesh-India Friendship Society at Dhaka University on Saturday.
She said that a bill was pending...
The apex court in the country has admitted a five-year-old petition seeking repatriation of around 300,000 “stranded Pakistanis” — mostly Biharis based in former East Pakistan when it seceded from Pakistan to become independent Bangladesh but never made it to Pakistan because of financial constraints, hence remaining stranded in a country that refuses to own them and largely forgotten by a country they opted for.
Court sources said yesterday Chief Justice of Pakistan Tassaduq Jilani has fixed the petition filed by the Stranded Pakistanis Gen...
The rule of law does not exist in Bangladesh, said a statement of Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). The statement says, the way the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) abducted seven men, including a senior lawyer and a member of the mayoral panel of the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC), on 27 April 2014, and murdered them, allegedly on behalf of a feuding faction of the ruling party, in exchange for a 60 million Taka (US$ 774,000) bribe, is proof yet again of this fact.
The role of family members of a cabinet minister in masterminding the operation, police inaction in the face of knowledge of the abduction, and eyewash gestures at the highest levels of government confirm fears. The politics of blood and wealth reign supreme in Bangladesh; there is no space for the rule of law. A ‘cha...
The ambassador of Bangladesh to Indonesia, Nazmul Quaunine, has presented his Letter of Credence to Asean Secretary General Le Luong Minh, as the first Ambassador of his country to the 10-member countries association.
Minh congratulated Quaunine for assuming his duty and stressed that the ambassador could play an important role in forging cooperation between Asean and Bangladesh as well as within the framework of Asean-South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Indonesia's Antara news agency reported the Asean Secretariat as saying on its website on Friday.
Rescued from a brothel at G.B. Road here and sent to Nirmal Chhaya, a Bangladeshi woman will now be escorted to her village and united with her family by the Delhi Police on the orders of a Delhi court. Earlier the Bangladesh Embassy had failed to verify her address when she insisted on going back home.
The court order came after the Nirmal Chhaya welfare officer told the judge that the victim was breaking things at the shelter home as she wanted to return home.
Despite repeated requests, the Bangladesh Embassy did not return a...
Hasina and her Awami League government have been upset over the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government’s failure...
