When seemingly unending political street-battles gripped Bangladesh in late 2006, the United Nations pushed the country’s military in a circuitous way to take over the administration, brazenly violating its own charter that bars the world institution from interfering in any member state’s internal affairs.
The UN coerced the reluctant Bangalee generals by threatening them with the loss of their participation in international peacekeeping jobs, which are highly prized by Bangladesh’s armed forces. On 11 January 2007, the military grudgingly agreed to rule the country from behind the scenes and created a facade of a civilian administration with an ailing president and a rubber-stamp council of advisers, who acted as cabinet ministers. This unprecedented political posture was dubbed as ...
Andhra Pradesh region of Food Corporation of India has undertaken the challenging and novel task of dispatch of raw rice stocks from Visakhapatnam to Agartala in Tripura through multimodal transportation to meet PDS requirement.
The task involves transportation of stocks from Visakhapatnam Port to Diamond Harbour in Kolkata by a ship. At Diamond Harbour the stocks will be trans-shipped into barges and taken through river movement up to Bangladesh. Thereafter the stocks will transit Bangladesh through trucks and again from Bangladesh border to FCI...
Days before the commencement of winter session of Parliament, voices demanding the settlement of the issue of enclaves in Bangladesh and India can be heard on both sides of the border. On Thursday, hundreds of students gathered outside Dhaka University with posters and placards demanding a solution to the six-decade-old issue.
“Thousands of people living on either side of the border are being denied citizenship rights. They have no access to basic health, education and other facilities from either of the governments,” Lizu Hasan a student of philosophy in Bangaldesh, told The Hindu on Friday.
While 51 Bangladeshi enclaves with about 14,000 residents in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, 111 Indian enclaves with a population of 38,000 are located in four districts of Bangladesh.
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Asia enters its annual season of political summits in the coming weeks and US President Barack Obama will be a key player. Despite his Democrat party losing America’s domestic mid-term elections, the President will continue to be a key presence, first at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit and then at the East Asia Summit (EAS), hosted by Myanmar.
Simply turning up shows that America is, indeed, making the effort to continue its rebalance to the region. But after the pomp and ceremony dies down, will Asia be satisfied with what America has to offer the region? And will Obama judge his time here as well spent?
Bangladesh Thai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BTCCI) placed a number of proposals to the Industry Minister of Bangladesh including the seeking govt. cooperation of relocating labor intensive industry in Bangladesh from Thailand, removal of tariff barriers to strengthen bilateral economic cooperation and a special economic zone for Thailand.
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BTCCI President Sajjatuz Jumma handed over a crest to Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu in a BTCCI Board of Directors courtesy ca...
Noted author and educationist Zillur Rahman Siddiqui has died aged 86.
The former adviser to the caretaker government was rushed to the Samorita Hospital in Dhaka Tuesday, which confirmed that he had already passed away by the time he was brought in, bdnews24.com reported.
Siddiqui’s body will be kept at the hospital until relatives arrive to decide on his burial, his family said.
Siddiqui, who won Bangladesh’s highest civilian award Swadhinata Padak (Independence Award) in 2010, leaves behind his wife, three sons and a daughter.
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