NDA will send Bangladeshis back: Modi
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Sunday threatened to deport Bangladeshi immigrants if NDA comes to power, saying they were being welcomed with red carpets for vote bank politics.
“I want to warn from here, brothers and sisters write down, that after May 16, beyond the border with their bags and baggage,” Modi said alleging that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was pursuing vote bank politics.
“You are spreading the red carpet for the Bangladeshis for the sake of vote bank politics,” he said in this largely mixed co...
“You are spreading the red carpet for the Bangladeshis for the sake of vote bank politics,” he said in this largely mixed co...
BD joins global declaration to end sexual violence in conflict
Bangladesh has joined the ‘Global Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict’ as 123rd country reaffirming its commitment to denounce sexual violence during armed conflicts.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague and UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Bangura jointly launched the declaration in New York on September 24, 2013 during the 68th UN General Assembly.
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, in a letter, conveyed the decision to British Foreign Secretary William Hague, said a Foreign Ministry media release on Sunday.
First TICFA meet begins Monday
The first meeting of the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (TICFA), which has already been effective since January this year, will begin in the capital on Monday.
“We’ve good preparations for the meeting.duty-free and quota-free (DFQF) market access and GSP will be the key agenda in the first TICFA meeting on Bangladesh side,” Commerce Secretary Mahbub Ahmed told BSS today (Saturday).
Mahbub described the two-day meeting as a high-level bilateral engagement between Dhaka and Washington and said it will help find ways for increasing t...
Mahbub described the two-day meeting as a high-level bilateral engagement between Dhaka and Washington and said it will help find ways for increasing t...
Dhaka, Delhi move to repatriate warriors’ remains
“India has been very sympathetic to our request for detection of the graves of our freedom fighters for reburial on the land they fought for. It will open up a new horizon in our relations,” said Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, who previously headed the Liberation War Affairs Ministry.
West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya have begun the painstaking process of locating the fighters’ graves, digging up their remains and shipping them home for burial, the Indian High Commission in Dhaka announced earlier this year. The four border states appointed nodal officers to facilitate the process, according to the commission.
The 4,000 or so fighters who died in combat or went missing in action were scattered in borderland states during the nine-month war. As of January, officials had ...
Stability at risk without political inclusion: US
The US continues to press for greater political inclusion in Bangladesh without which the Asian country’s stability will be at risk, a top Obama Administration official has said.
“In Bangladesh, we continue to press for greater political inclusion, without which, a more stable and prosperous future is put at risk,” Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Nisha Desai Biswal, said in her address at the prestigious Harvard University.
At the same time, she praised Bangladesh for its achievement in the socio ...
At the same time, she praised Bangladesh for its achievement in the socio ...
