Dhaka, Oct 21 – Bangladesh’s population is now 164.4 million, up from 156 million a decade back, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has said. The boom should be a matter of concern as it threatens food security, warned Food and Disaster Management Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque who unveiled the report ‘State of World Population 2010′. [...]
Dhaka, Oct 20 – The European Union (EU) will set up a counter-terrorism centre in Bangladesh in order to provide special training to police and other law enforcement officials across South Asia on how to combat terrorism. Ambassador of EU Delegation to Bangladesh, Stefan Frowein, has announced that countries like India and Pakistan have agreed [...]
Dhaka, Oct 20 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s move to restore the word ‘secularism’ in the constitution while allowing political activity by religion-based parties has received mixed response from the media. New Age newspaper Wednesday called it ‘a poignant example of political opportunism’, while the New Nation asked whether the court, and not parliament, was [...]
Dhaka, Oct 19 – Bangladesh will shortly restore the word ‘secularism’ in its constitution. However, it will remain an Islamic state, allowing functioning of religion-based parties, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. The government will reprint the constitution following a Supreme Court directive to restore ‘secularism’, but no political party bearing names of religions would [...]
Dhaka, Oct 18 – Bangladesh is reaching out to nations, including India, which export labour to the Gulf region and southeast Asia, to evolve a common stance on migrant workers’ rights. The initiative comes ahead of a meeting of the Colombo Process, an alliance of 11 Asian labour exporters, which launched its journey in 2003. [...]
Dhaka, Oct 18 – Bangladesh and India have begun setting up fences within 150 yards of the zero line along the international border. The exercise, which is on for some months now, marks a deviation from the Indo-Bangladesh Boundary Agreement 1974 that restricts any construction within 150 yards of the zero line. ‘It is essentially [...]
Dhaka, Oct 17 – Police detained three people who burnt over 200 houses at an Indian enclave on the border after a group of Indians killed a Bangladeshi, a media report said Sunday. A mob reacted violently after the Indians killed Ramjan Ali and refused to return his body in Garati, the Indian enclave, the [...]
Dhaka, Oct 17 – The Bangladesh government has asked opposition leader and former prime minister Khaleda Zia to vacate the house she has lived in since 1981 — after a court ruled against her. With this, the stage has been set for another confrontation between the government and the main opposition party. Zia’s lawyer and [...]
Dhaka, Oct 17 – Attacks by drunken mobs and even policemen on Hindu devotees and Durga Puja marquees in many parts of Bangladesh marred the festivities of the country’s minority community even as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stressed on the virtues of secularism. Reports of violence came from across the country as the biggest religious [...]
Dhaka, Oct 13 – A Bangladeshi court Wednesday ordered former prime minister Khaleda Zia to vacate her lease-hold residence in Dhaka, court officials said. The High Court rejected a petition by the opposition leader to reject a government notice to vacate her residence in a military cantonment and gave her one month to do so. [...]
Dhaka, Oct 11 – An angry mob Monday set a train on fire after it crushed at least five people gathering for an opposition rally in northern Bangladesh, officials said. Witnesses said the Dhaka-bound train ploughed through a crowd of supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on their way to join a rally [...]
Dhaka, Oct 11 – A passenger bus plunged into a river near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka Sunday, leaving at least one person dead and some 40 others missing, police said. Rescuers from the army, navy and fire department had yet to locate the bus 12 hours after the accident. A female passenger was killed while [...]
Dhaka, Oct 4 – Bangladesh has said it will not send its troops to war-ravaged Afghanistan despite a request from the US. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her government did not receive any formal proposal from the US about sending troops. ‘So there is no question of sending troops,’ she told her party’s [...]
Dhaka, Oct 1 – The US has said that it has intensified discussions with Bangladesh about that country sending its troops to Afghanistan, but Dhaka is ‘cautious’ about it. ‘The United States has intensified its discussion on Bangladesh’s engagement in Afghanistan for global peace and stability,’ Nicholas Dean, the current charge d’affaires of the US [...]
Dhaka, Sep 29 – At least seven people were killed and over 20 injured when a passenger train rammed into two buses at an unmanned level crossing here in the Bangladesh capital Wednesday, police said. Kamrun Nahar, an officer at the Jatrabari police station in Dhaka, said ‘at least seven people died on the spot [...]
Dhaka, Sep 29 – The biggest international art exhibition and competition in Bangladesh, for which 26 countries have confirmed participation so far, will begin Oct 8, an official said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the show, Kamal Lohani, director general of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, said. The organisers said they would launch [...]
Dhaka, Sep 29 – Bangladeshi shooters who win a gold in the Commonwealth Games will get a reward of one million taka (over $14,000). The 10m Air Rifle is Bangladesh’s hope for a gold medal. The shooters will also compete in individual events, The Daily Star said Wednesday. ‘Our shooters have put up good performances [...]
Dhaka, Sep 29 – Bangladesh has announced a prize of Taka one million ($14,382) for each gold medal winner in the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi to encourage its 12-member shooting team. The 10m Air Rifle remains Bangladesh’s hope for a gold medal. The players of the team will also compete in individual [...]
Dhaka, Sep 29 – The government has shifted out senior officials of Bangladeshh’s Pabna district following violence as well as a prolonged stand-off between the administration and ruling Awami League (AL) leaders. Media reports have said the AL leaders were ‘interfering’ in recruitment tests being conducted by the administration, leading to clashes. The three officials [...]
Dhaka, Sep 28 – The Taliban has warned Bangladesh against sending its troops to Afghanistan after the US asked Dhaka to send its forces to the war-ravaged country. The Taliban Monday told Bangladesh to refuse the US request to send combat troops to Afghanistan, a media report said. The US monitoring service SITE intelligence group [...]
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