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BSF attack Bangladesh village in Panchagarh, torch house

The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) intruded into the Bangladesh territory and torched a house in Tiapara along Ghagra frontier in Sadar upazila on Sunday. Locals said a group of BSF members, numbering 10/15, from Tiapara camp entered Bangladesh through main pillar No 757 (2) in the morning. bsfLater, they stormed into the house of farmer Asadur Rahman and vandalised it before setting it on fire, reports UNB. When contacted, Asadur Rahman said the BSF men obstructed him to build the house. As he co...

India gives Bangladesh only $ 115.3m of promised LoC

India has given only $ 115.31 million to Bangladesh from its promised $ 800 million line of credit (LoC) till November three years after the loan commitment, officials said Saturday. Dhaka signed a $1.0 billion credit deal with New Delhi in August 2010 for utilising the money to upgrade the country’s infrastructure especially to facilitate cross-border transport movement between the two countries, reports the Financial Express (FE). “The project implementation delay due to hard terms imposed by the Indian government has affected fund disbursement,” said a senior Ministry of Finance (MoF) official.

Little confidence in future of Afghanistan in 2014

A medley of vast conflicts and far-reaching consequences, there’s very little confidence in in future of Afghanistan these days. Karzai, the only president the Afghans have known since the Taliban were driven out, is keen to lose the backing of the American military and close the open checkbook that ensures salaries and benefits for the Afghan army and police forces. Instead, he is insisting on the US supporting a peace deal with the Taliban. The recent Loya Jirga of almost 2500 tribal leaders also supported the US alliance but Karzai is betting the promise of 2014 in signing an accord with the Taliban, which according to him might bring more peace to the nation than a deal with the US military. This is the year that will deter...

Bangladesh ahead of India, Pakistan on acid attack laws

Bangladesh is one of the first countries to legislate on acid attacks with the enactment of the Acid Control Act in 2002 while the Supreme Court of India directed earlier this week to all States and Union Territories to put in place draft rules to regulate the sale of acid by this fiscal-end has once again brought to light India’s sluggishness in addressing acid crime. violance against womenIn fact, India has long lagged behind first Bangladesh and then Pakistan in spec...

Businesses to bring white flag procession on Dec 15

Leaders of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturer and Exporters Association (BGMEA) said, if the deadlock political is not resolved immediately, they would bring out white flag procession across the country on December 15. Sounding a note of caution, they said, they  would  take to   the streets together with their workers  if the country’ s prevailing political crisis is not resolved within next five days. The warning  came on Saturday from a ‘ human-chain’ protesting for a political consensus to end the current crisis. Hartal-BGmea-Bkmea

Five-day ultimatum to end political crisis, threaten businesses

Country’s key business leaders have threatened the political parties a tougher movement if the ongoing political impasse will not be solved within the next five days. “If the political parties can’t reach a consensus within the next five days to solve the current political deadlock, the businesspeople and workers will be forced to take to the streets,” said M Atiqul Islam, president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). He made the remarks in a human chain arranged by BGMEA along with the leaders of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) and Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industries (DCCI) in front...