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India, Bangladesh to meet at border for joint retreat

Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde will meet Bangladeshi counterpart at the Indo-Bangla border’s Petrapole-Benapole post to flag-off the joint retreat ceremony between border forces of the two countries. Shinde along with Bangladesh Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir will be present at the Petrapole-Benapole border on Wednesday, a BSF officer said, adding, that the director […]

Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin says Bangladesh war crime trial was ‘corrupt’

A UK based Bangladeshi Muslim community leader, convicted of war crimes in Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, has described his trial as “corrupt”. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin was tried in absentia by a special tribunal and sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes related to the abduction and killing of independence supporters. Mr Mueen-Uddin told […]

Move on to form Bangladesh poll-time cabinet

Dhaka, Nov 5 (IANS) Despite the main opposition alliance’s threat to boycott elections, the Bangladesh ruling coalition has initiated moves to form an all-party poll-time interim cabinet in line with PrimeMinister Sheikh Hasina’s proposal. “We’ll submit our resignation letters to the prime minister in a week,” Xinhua quoted Communications Minister Obaidul Quader, one of the influential members of the […]

Bangladesh concludes mutiny trial, hundreds sentenced to death, life in prison

By Sharmin Akter DHAKA, Nov. 5 (NsNewsWire) — Hundreds of paramilitary soldiers have been sentenced to death and life in prison for a two-day horrendous mutiny which left 74 people dead including 57 officers deputed from the Army. The Dhaka court awarded death to 152 personnel of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), previously known as Bangladesh Rifles […]

Bangladeshi opposition’s hartal sparks violence

DHAKA, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) — A protester was shot dead and a dozen others including cops injured in stray incidents of violence in the early hours of Bangladesh’s opposition enforced countrywide 60- hour non-stop hartal which begins on Monday morning. Nasir Uddin, 24, a leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of ex-Prime Minister […]

Al-Badar leaders sentenced to death for war crimes

DHAKA, Nov. 3 (nsnewswire) — A tribunal has issued death penalty verdict against two Al-Badar leaders, who had masterminded the massacre of intellectuals during the country’s war of independence in 1971. The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-2 pronounced the verdict in absentia Sunday afternoon on a crime against humanity case, awarding death sentences to Chowdhury Moinuddin and Ashrafuzzaman […]

Bangladesh opposition calls another three-day strike

DHAKA, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) — Bangladesh’s main opposition on Saturday called another round of nationwide non-stop 60-hour strike from Monday morning to press its demand for a non-party caretaker government to oversee the national elections slated for early 2014. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, acting secretary general of the main opposition party, in a press briefing […]

Rohingya Using Larger Boats to Flee Burma, Bangladesh

BANGKOK — Activists in Southeast Asia say thousands of people are fleeing Bangladesh and Burma by sea, resuming a seasonal migration that has seen many head south in recent years. Nearly all are attempting to illegally enter Malaysia via Thailand.Monitors along the Burma-Bangladesh border estimate that 17,000 people have already left the area since August, […]

Three dead, scores injured in Bangladeshi hartal violence

DHAKA, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — At least three politicians were dead and scores including cops injured in stray incidents of violence in the early hours of Bangladesh’s opposition enforced countrywide 60-hour non-stop strike which began on Sunday morning, sources said. They said a leader of ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was killed […]