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Why Bangladesh feared Indian invasion after 1975 coup  

B. Z. Khasru

 When Gen. Ziaur Rahman became Bangladesh’s virtual ruler following several bloody military coups in 1975, he told the United States that India intended to invade its small neighbor to install a puppet regime. So intense was Zia’s fear of an Indian invasion that on 7 November 1975 he made a call on the radio for national unity to face the attack. His call triggered more processions in Dhaka, initially sparked by the news of his release from detention by the officers who had mounted a failed coup earlier. The processions were laced with anti-Indian slogans. This public mood in Dhaka reflected a total reversal of the sentiment at the end of the Bangladesh war in 1971 when the sentiment was explicitly anti-Pakistani and...

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. nisha biswalAt the same time, she praised Bangladesh for its achievement in the socio ...

Bangladeshi influx into Assam to be Indian poll issue

The anti-Congress wave across India will also affect the Lok Sabha polls in the northeast, and influx from Bangladesh into Assam will be a major election issue for the BJP, party leader Venkaiah Naidu said here Wednesday. The BJP leader targeted the Congress-led government and said the Aadhaar scheme was an attempt to make illegal migrants citizens of the country. India-ElectionsIn the state to review the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll preparations, Naidu said the Food Security Act was b...

More 100mw from India likely

India may have finally promised Bangladesh 100 MW of electricity from the ONGC Tripura Power Company-promoted 736.6 MW gas-based facility at Palatana in Tripura. India sells 500 MW of electricity a day to Dhaka through West Bengal border. Of the total, 250 MW is sourced from NTPC at Central Electricity Regulatory Commission determined tariff. The rest is traded through open market deals. bd-indiaAccording to media reports in Kolkata and Dhaka, at a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Seikh Hasina, a...

Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated: Modi

The Indian prime ministerial candidate of BJP, Narendra Modi said Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated in the country and detention camps would be done away with once his party comes to power. “As soon as we come to power at the Centre, detention camps housing Hindu migrants from Bangladesh will be done away with,” Mr Modi told a public rally at Ramnagar in Assam on Saturday. “We have a responsibility toward Hindus who are harassed and suffer in other countries. Where will they go? India is the only place for them. Our government cannot continue to harass them. We will have to accommodate them here,” he said. [caption id="attachment_4374" align="alignleft" width="300"]

Learning parliamentary systems from India!

Speaker of the Indian Lok Sabha  Meira Kumar had conveyed to her Bangladeshi counterpart on Wednesday that India was ready to help strengthen parliamentary systems and structures in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury visited the Lok Sabha on Thursday, and however, managed to exit the House just as Indian MPs resorted to unruly acts over the division of Andhra Pradesh. speakerThe Speaker of Bangladesh’s Parliament Jatiya Sangsad, was in the Lok Sabha’s special box as a state guest when...
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