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Indian agents in city to discuss regional terrorism

A team of agents from the Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) has landed in Dhaka on Monday. NIA agents previously visited Dhaka after the bomb explosion in Bardhaman of India. This time a high-level three member team of national-investigating-agencyNIA led by its Inspector General Sanjib Kumar Singh came over to Dhaka on Monday just two days after the South Asian Al-Qaeda acknowledged its responsibility over the Avijit Roy murder. Joint Commissioner of Bangladesh Police Detective Branch, Mo...

Lured by jobs, Bangladeshis end up slaves in Thai jungles

Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi nationals in pursuit of jobs in Malaysia are believed to have fallen victim to the modern-day slave trade, amid claims of rampant human trafficking activities over the porous Malaysia-Thailand border, according to The Daily Star today. The Bangladesh-based English newspaper claimed that at least 250,000 Bangladeshis have been held in the jungles of Thailand for ransom over the past eight years, squeezing their families of anything between TK200,000 (RM9,200) to TK350,000 Bangladeshi Taka for each captive. [caption id="attachment_15634" align="alignleft" width="300"]

Not to exclude Assam from land boundary deal: Gogoi

With reports emanating from New Delhi that the BJP-led government at the Centre was keen to exclude Assam from implementation of Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to take such a decision. [caption id="attachment_15599" align="alignleft" width="300"]tarun_gogoi The Assam Chief Minister also reminded Prime Minister Modi of his statement made during his visit to Assam in November 2014 that the Protocol 2011 to the Indo-Bangladesh Boundary Agre...

State, ruling party harassing journalists

Harassment of journalists by the state machinery and the ruling party in Bangladesh has increased alarmingly, according to a report 'Freedom of Expression in Bangladesh-2014'. "There has been an alarming increase in the harassment of journalists perpetrated mediaby state actors, from 12.5 % in 2013 to 33.69 % in 2014," said Tahmina Rahman, director of Article 19 Bangladesh and South Asia. The organisation for freedom of expression published the report in a press briefing at Dhaka Reporters' Unity on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday. "Am...

US calls for probing ‘irregularities’ in city polls

US under secretary for political affairs Wendy Sherman (L) raises Washington’s concern both at voting irregularities and the BNP’s boycott of polls during a briefing after the plenary session on Friday. Reiterating the calls for investigating ‘irregularities’ in the just-held city polls, Washington has called on Dhaka to make sure that the next election is highly improved. [caption id="attachment_15555" align="alignleft" width="300"]us minister US under secretary for political affairs Wendy Sherman (L) raises Washington’s concern both at voting i...

Bill on boundary deal with Bangladesh to be deferred

A statute amendment bill to operationalise the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh has been deferred for the time being with Congress opposing tooth and nail the exclusion of Assam from its ambit. bd-indiaSources said the government had planned to bring the bill in Raj ya Saba May 5, first day of the last week of Budget session. It is learnt that the issue also came at a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of the Rajya Sabha today, where Congress opposed the government’s move. While the government has got various states, including Trinam...
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