Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) troopers have opposed the construction of a culvert, creating tension along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura, an official said here Tuesday.
“When the workers were building a culvert adjoining a bridge in bordering Belonia town (in southern Tripura) Monday, the BGB jawans threatened to open fire unless the erection of the culvert was stopped,” said an official of the south Tripura district administration.
Local people immediately launched a road blockade i...
Bangladesh will be catapulted to third in the league table of death penalty countries, behind Iran and China if the executions of 152 border guards to death over ‘2009 mutiny’ are carried out, a process that was slammed by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, amongst others.
In young and developing democracies like Bangladesh, the imprisonment of dissenting voices is commonplace, but not unsurprising. Yet it is the incendiary act of executing high-level opposition leaders before an election which risks plunging Bangladesh into turmoil. Criticism of legal processes aside, it is this challenge to the very fundamentals of a modern democracy that must concern all.
The 41-year-old India-Bangladesh passport regime in the Northeast and in West Bengal came to an end on Sunday following an instruction by the Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid to the concerned state governments.
Those who have been already a passport under the old system will be able to use it until the expiration date. This special passport, which allowed travel to Bangladesh with a locally issued visa, was introduced after the independence of Bangladesh in 1971 for the easy movement of people between the two countries, reports TNN.
The passport was issued by the northeastern state governments with the consent of the regional passport offices in Kolkata, and the people of West Bengal and the Northeast could apply for ...
The Indian UPA government led by Congress is learned to have got the BJP’s support for tabling the bill related to the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh in the winter session of parliament beginning on Thursday, signalling its intent to Dhaka to go ahead with the landmark pact.
However, the bill is unlikely to be taken up for ratification, with the BJP making it clear that the government will have to explain its political limitations to Bangladesh, reports The Indian Express on Monday.
Quoting reliable sources the daily said the bill will be introduced in the Rajya Sabha so that it remains alive in the new parliament after the general election.
The BJP, it is learned, has come around to the view that this is how far it can go in an election year, although it is not ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the Bangladesh political leaders on both sides to stop political violence and their ‘destructive brinkmanship’.
“Whatever their differences, political leaders on both sides must halt their destructive brinkmanship, which is pushing Bangladesh dangerously close to a major crisis,” Pillay said in a statement issued from Geneva on Sunday.
Instead, she said, they (political leaders) must fulfill their responsibility and use their influence to bring this violence to an immediate halt and seek a solution to this crisis through dialogue.
The statement came at a time when the...
Building a sound government-NGO partnership in combating graft is a good practice in Bangladesh that can be replicated in many other countries, speakers observed at a function in Panama City.
The special event on Bangladesh organised on the sidelines of the 5
th Conference of State Parties (COSP-5) of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) being held this week, according to a Foreign Ministry release issued on Friday.
The event titled ‘Opportunities and Challenges in Government-Civil Society Eng...
Local people immediately launched a road blockade i...
