Bangladesh News Archives

Uzbekistan News.Net Monday 30th November, 2009 Stating that the proposed dam by India over the Barak river would flood large areas and act as a 'weapon of mass destruction', a British delegation led by MP George Galloway marched to the India-Bangladesh border before he was stopped by border guards.

Malaysia Sun Monday 30th November, 2009 Port of Spain , Nov.30 : Malaysia's freeze on the intake of Bangladeshi workers will stay despite a request from Dhaka for a review of the decision, said the country's Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak.

If a Shakespeare should ever arise in Bangladesh, he would have plenty of tragedies around which to weave his history plays.

Bangladesh 37 killed, many missing after ferry capsizes A triple-deck ferry packed with travelers heading home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked in southern Bangladesh, leaving at least 37 dead and scores missing, authorities said Saturday.

Dhaka, Nov 29 : More than 30 people were killed in road accidents in Bangladesh during the Eid-ul-Azha festival rush Saturday while 53 died when an overloaded boat capsized, media reports said Sunday.

Many people from coastal areas of Bangladesh forced out of their homes by the effects of climate change have started migrating towards already over-populated and infrastructure-crippled cities - and to India for their survival.

New Delhi/India and Bangladesh begin home secretary-level talks in New Delhi Monday with tackling terrorism, infiltration and border crimes, as well as smuggling of fake currency and human trafficking high on the agenda.

The death toll from ferry accident in Bangladesh's Bhola district, 197 kms southeast of capital Dhaka, rose to 40, as the divers of Bangladesh Navy found 5 more bodies on Sunday, police said.

The death toll from ferry accident in Bangladesh's southern Bhola district rose to 35 on Saturday, after rescuers retrieved 18 more bodies trapped in the emersed vessel, officials said.

More than three dozen people are dead and scores missing after a ferry packed with hundreds of travelers capsized in Bangladesh.

His articles in TIME magazine, TEHELKA.com and Daily TIMES on the export of terror with knowledge of the Bangladesh security services invited trouble.

DHAKA:Bangladesh plans to launch its own communications satellite within a year, Post and Telecommunications Minister Raziuddin Ahmed Raju said yesterday.

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At least two people have died and scores are missing following a ferry accident in the south of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh News.Net Friday 27th November, 2009 At least 14 people were killed and 100 injured in four road accidents during Eid-ul-Azha as people rushed home to celebrate the festival with their families.

DHAKA: An agreement on exchange of electricity during non-peak hours between India and Bangladesh is expected to power Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's upcoming visit to New Delhi to a substantive level, and consolidate the vision for a Saarc power grid.

UNB, Dhaka Bangladesh and Nepal have agreed to enhance bilateral trade and investment through Rohonpur-Singabad-Birganj transit route and proposed Dhaka-Kathmandu bus service via Banglabandha-Kakorvita corridor.

Tajikistan News.Net Friday 20th November, 2009 Lawyers for five former Bangladesh Army officers have sought a review of the Supreme court verdict handing them the death sentence for killing the country's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his family members and political associates 34 years ago.

Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain on Thursday said all highways in the country should be made into four lanes as the first and foremost requisite to ensure road safety to avert high rate of road accidents with about 3,500 causalities every year.

Police in Bangladesh say they have arrested a man suspected of being a senior member of the Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. The arrest brings to seven the number of men held in Bangladesh over the past month for suspected links to the group.

A court in southwestern Bangladesh has jailed two men for severely beating a pregnant crocodile at an Islamic shrine, a news report said Thursday.

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the construction of Gulistan-Jatrabari flyover in January to be completed in next two years, said Local Government and Rural Development Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday.

Suriya Begum, a slum dweller in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, holds her baby in this Aug, 24, 2009 portrait.

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Motiur Rahman Nizami got the 43rd position in the list of 500 most influential Muslim personalities of the world.

DHAKA: The government has declared four rivers surrounding Dhaka City as Ecologically Critical Area as part of the plan to protect the rivers from encroachment as well as conservation of the biodiversity of the ancient water courses.

Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said relocating Kamalapur railway station and container depot to Tongi will worsen the traffic situation in the city in future instead of improving it.

Bangladesh News.Net Tuesday 24th November, 2009 Greater vigil by India's Border Security Force has curbed cattle movement that may cause a 'famine' in Bangladesh ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, a media report said Tuesday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the freedom fighters would be soon allowed to travel free in buses, trains and launches.

The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule upon the government and Biman Bangladesh Airlines authorities to explain within two weeks why the management of Biman should not be prevented from re-opening Dhaka-New York-Dhaka route.

Bangladesh plans to set up a fund that will invest as much as $10 billion in energy and power projects within the next decade to resolve an electricity shortage, a senior official said.

Unb, Dhaka a ' Further action by the UN commission concerned on Myanmar's claim on the outer-limits of the continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal has been suspended.

The trial of the February 25-26 mutinies by soldiers at different sectors of the Bangladesh Rifles begins today with a special court at the Rangamati sector headquarters opening the proceedings.

The light of justice on November 19 completely removed the darkness that had hung over Bangladesh for 34 years following the heinous killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's founding father, as the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence to a dozen killers earlier confirmed by the High Court.

Two speeding buses have collided head-on on a highway in central Bangladesh, killing at least nine people and injuring 58 others.

DHAKA: Speakers at a seminar yesterday said referring to a World Bank study that environment pollution is responsible for 22 percent of all deaths from diseases in Bangladesh.

DHAKA: United Airways launched its flight to London yesterday, the first by a private airline in Bangladesh.

Moira Kelly, left, with Daniella Noble, the woman who found the twins at a Dhaka orphanage in 2007, standing next to separated twin Trishna at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne on Saturday Bangladeshi conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna appeared yesterday to have beaten the odds with their miracle story of survival, both awaking from ...

Dhaka, Nov 22 : Bangladesh is to begin Tuesday the trial of over 3,500 border guards who staged a mutiny in February killing 74 people.

Four of the five former army officers who were sentenced to death for killing Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will seek the presidential pardon, jail officials announced Sunday.

Like several other banned groups JMB want to turn mostly Muslim Bangladesh of 150mn people to a Shariah-based Islamic country.

It's nothing short of a Bollywood love story. India's Zubair Khan and Bangladesh's Shazia Zarin met on Facebook, fell in love, she fled from home, they got married and are expecting a child.

BARGUNA, : Two years after Cyclone Sidr hit the southern coastal districts of Bangladesh, many of the survivors are still homeless and at severe risk from further disasters, officials say.

Bangladesh is determined to nab six former army officers linked to the assassination of founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who are believed to be living in foreign countries ranging from Pakistan to the US.

A second Bangladeshi twin began returning to consciousness on Friday, three days after being separated from her conjoined sister in a landmark operation in Australia, the hospital said.

Bangladesh could meet 40 percent of its soybean oil demand by producing Soybean locally, as there is a bright prospect for its farming.

VATICAN CITY, 18 NOV 2009 - The Holy See Press Office released the following communique at midday today: "At the end of his general audience today, the Holy Father Benedict XVI received Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

Stocks bounced back yesterday as the market reacted positively to the verdict on the Bangabandhu killing case that was announced during the early trading hours.

Dhaka, Nov. 19: Bangladesh's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentences on five former army officers convicted of assassinating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a 1975 coup, taking the penultimate step in a 34-year-old saga that has bitterly divided the country.

After agreeing to a rail link between Nepal and Bangladesh, will India allow the two countries to use that?It didn't happen in 1976 when Bangladesh and Nepal signed a transit agreement for boosting bilateral trade but failed to implemented it as India did not allow its territory to be used for passage at that time.

GUWAHATI: The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom has set up bases in China and other foreign countries with the help of money extorted in the state, two senior ULFA leaders have told police interrogators.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the High Court verdict that confirmed death sentences of 12 retired and dismissed army men in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mijubur Rahman assassination case.

Following is the list of those who were brutally killed on the fateful night of August 15, 1975 are: 1) Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Begum Fazilatunnesa - wife of Bangabandhu Sheikh Kamal - Bangabandhu's eldest son Sultana Kamal Khuki - wife of Sheikh Kamal Sheikh Jamal - Bangabandhu's second son Parveen Jamal Rosy - Sheikh Jamal's wife Sheikh ...

Melbourne - Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna are set to wake up "soon", just two days after marathon surgery in Australia to separate their conjoined heads, the hospital said on Thursday.

New Delhi, Nov 18 : Bangladesh Power Secretary Abul Kalam Azad is visiting New Delhi on Wednesday to hold a preliminary round of energy cooperation talks ahead of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's India visit next month.

The trial of the army officers accused of killing Bangladesh's first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 is expected to end this week.

DHAKA: Dhaka University Vice-chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique received another death threat at his office yesterday.

Bangladesh has improved its ranking in the much-talked about Global Corruption Perception Index, moving up to the 13th position from the 10th in 2008, although political and bureaucratic corruption is still believed to be rampant.

London, November 17 : Scientists have determined that the source of the arsenic that turns up in lethal quantities in hundreds of thousands of wells across Bangladesh is ponds, thus solving one of the world's great poisoning mysteries.

India's long-term project to track the movement of foreign nationals applying for its visas will kick off with Bangladeshi citizens.

DHAKA: Khulna Medical College was closed for an indefinite period following a clash between two rival factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League yesterday.

A team of Australian doctors began marathon surgery on November 16, 2009 to separate Trishna and Krishna , Bangladeshi twins joined at the head, giving them only a one in four chance of both ... Australian doctors successfully separated Bangladeshi twins who were joined at the head after more than 24 hours of surgery, describing the moment as ...

Foreign Secretary Mohamed Mijarul Quayes said Bangladesh will make an independent decision on recognition to Kosovo keeping its national interests in consideration.

The conflicts between the local government representatives and the members of parliament arise out of self-interests, not of people's welfare, Speaker Abdul Hamid said yesterday.

DHAKA: The government yesterday cancelled all leases of the riverbanks given by the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority on daily basis and decided to stop unauthorised sand trading for checking river pollution and maintaining navigability.

The security threat heightened after the arrests of family members of some of the convicts facing re-trial. The government has alleged that they have terror links and plotted the attack on Taposh.

President Zillur Rahman and his Iranian counterpart Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hold talks on the sidelines of the COMCEC economic summit in Istanbul on Monday.Photo: PID Bss, Istanbul President Zillur Rahman and his Iranian counterpart Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emphasised the importance of increasing trade and commerce relations between the two countries.

GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat police have constituted a four-member team to pursue a suspected trail of David Headley in the State.

ONE may look at the recent arrests of people alleged to belong to the Lashkar-e-Taiyeba, which is based in Pakistan, as both a cause to be wary as well as a matter to take a degree of relief from.

Bangladesh and India are poised to sign deals on fighting international terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking next month, officials said in Dhaka Saturday.

DHAKA: Bangladeshi police said on Friday they have arrested three Pakistani men who were suspected of plotting to attack US and Indian targets in Dhaka.

DHAKA: The Digital ICT Fair-2009, an annual gala exposition of computer and its accessories, is gaining momentum every day with a large number of visitors showing their keen interest to the latest brands of the most modern scientific apparatus.

Bangladesh has sought necessary cooperation from International Federation of Airline Pilots Association in improving safety standard of the country's civil aviation authority which has recently been down-graded to 'significant safety concern list' by ICAO due to poor maintenance of aircraft and runways.

Border Security Force patrol near barbed wire fence at the border of India and Bangladesh near Agartala.

New Delhi News.Net Friday 13th November, 2009 New Delhi, Nov 13 : Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will visit Dhaka on Saturday.

Arrests in Bangladesh Lashkar commanders in Pakistan are thought to have planned anassault on the National Defence College here - or, in the alternative, take hostages at the elite Woodstock and Doon schools.

German mail-order giant Otto Group has joined forces with Nobel Peace Prize-winner Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank to build a socially-responsible textile "factory of the future" in Bangladesh.

The dream came true for cricket lovers in Chittagong on Monday as the port city was awarded two group stage matches of the ICC 2011 World Cup by the International Cricket Council.

A Bangladeshi citizen was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force on Burimari frontier in Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat on Thursday morning.

DHAKA: Foreign exchange reserve has crossed the $10 billion mark for the first time in the history of the country piggybacking on remittance, export growth and lower import.

Calcutta, Nov. 10: The Bengal bypoll results today left Mamata Banerjee a winner twice over - the Left slide worsened and her ally Congress stumbled in its north Bengal stronghold.

UNB, Dhaka BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain yesterday said their repeated allegations against the ruling party's conspiracy to foil its December 8 national council have proved right by the recent incidents of setting fire to its offices in different areas by the ruling party activists.

Wholesale medicine markets in the capital and Chittagong city observed a five-hour strike yesterday protesting seizure of huge medicines and arrest of three staff from a drug store in the port city on Wednesday.

Dhaka: The Indian High Commission in Bangladesh, along with the embassies of the U.S. and the U.K., was the target of Pakistan-based terror outfit LeT whose operatives were arrested here recently, police said on Sunday.

Dhaka, Nov 9 Bangladesh wants custody of fugitive former army officers hiding abroad, who killed founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on Aug 14, 1975, for an ongoing murder trial.

Five army officers detained for interrogation have named six of their former superiors as masterminds behind last month's bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh, said intelligence agency sources.

DHAKA: Bangladesh has strongly protested at the unprovoked shooting and killing of a minor girl inside its territory by the Border Security Force of India, according to the ministry of foreign affairs.

Tajikistan News.Net Monday 9th November, 2009 Neglected for long, Bangladesh's railway is up for a make-over to cope with the growing need for connectivity within the country and to prepare for joining the Asian rail network.

Dhaka, Nov 8: A plan to attack the US embassy here was hatched in Pakistan by the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba , Bangladeshi investigators have said.

Referring to neighbours and Fire Department officials, the newspaper said the fire 'started in the basement of an illegally subdivided house in Queens'. Police identified one of the dead as SD Jahan, 31.

Three Bangladeshis died and four others received burn injuries after a fire broke out in the basement of their house in New York City in the United States early Saturday.

The Border Security Force has asked its Bangladesh counterparts to hand over militants from India's northeast and convicted Indian nationals hiding in their territory, a BSF spokesman said here Sunday.

Bhutan may sell power to Bangladesh in return for more imports, including fruits and vegetables, as the South Asian nations discussed trade and tourism as well as cooperation in setting up industries.

Bangladesh News.Net Friday 6th November, 2009 Three Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, who had surveyed the area around the US mission in the Bangladesh capital and were allegedly planning to attack it, have been arrested.

Tajikistan News.Net Thursday 5th November, 2009 The European Union's bilateral free trade agreements with India, Southeast Asian nations and South Korea may pose a potential threat to Bangladesh, a report quoting officials of the European Commission has said.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party is observing the National Revolution and Solidarity Day on Saturday marking the civil-military "uprising" that led to release of then army chief Ziaur Rahman on this very day in 1975.

Three suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders, arrested with links to a plot to attack the US embassy in Dhaka, were placed on a two-day remand yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the Bangladesh government will seek retrial of former army officers responsible for killing four leaders who were part of the country's government-in-exile during the 1971 freedom movement.

Power-starved Bangladesh has decided to use solar power in all new public buildings now to save electricity as a means of stop-gap period as the country has signed agreement for nuclear power with Russia.

Two senior separatist leaders of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom , arrested in Bangladesh, are now in the custody of Assam Police, officials Friday said.

Foreign buyers inspect Bangladeshi garment products during the Batexpo in Dhaka yesterday.

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday offered ready-made garmentsA A entrepreneurs a virtual trade-off between the welfare of their workers on one hand, and additional government support for the industry on the other.

BSS, Dhaka Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad on Thursday said the mass media would have to play more responsible role in upholding the peoples rights.

Rivalries between Bangladesh's Left extremist groups operating in districts bordering India's West Bengal state have led to 285 people being killed this year, a media report said Thursday.

Chunnu Biswas opened his tiny two-room tin-roofed post office in the morning as usual, but another long day stretched ahead without any letters for him to sort or deliver.

Bangladeshi police said yesterday they had arrested a top Islamic party leader in connection with a deadly grenade attack that wounded Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2004.

DHAKA: The government is set to form Dhaka Mass Transit Authority abolishing the existing Dhaka Transport Coordination Board to look after the city's transport system, said Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain at a seminar yesterday.

The BSF will hand over a list of around 100 camps of different militant groups located in Bangladesh and seek action against them during a four-day meeting with top BDR commanders in Sylhet beginning Wednesday, official sources said.

Chief counsel for the state advocate Anisul Huq on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the incidents of August 15, 1975 were the conspiracy of killing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members, not the conspiracy of mutiny.A A He said if the conspiracy were of mutiny, the killers would confine then vice president and then prime ...

Leaders of banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad al Islami wanted to break into mainstream politics through Islamic Democratic Party formed last year with Moulana Sheikh Abdus Salam at the helm.

DHAKA: Bangladeshi police in the capital Dhaka closed a photography exhibition on Tibet following complaints from Chinese diplomats, the government and organisers said on Monday.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party , the country's main opposition in parliament, has complained of 'repression' of its leaders and cadres by the government while briefing foreign diplomats and donor agency representatives stationed here.

UNB, Dhaka OIC Secretary General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu will visit Bangladesh from November 3-5 at the invitation of Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni.

Dhaka, Nov 1 : Authorities Sunday afternoon failed to nab the Amir of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh , a banned militant outfit, as he managed to escape from his home in the national capital.

The tangy taste of Indian chaat, crisp dosas and mouth watering rolls are gradually becoming a rage in Bangladesh's fast food market that has been dominated by hamburgers and hotdogs.

An infant is suspected to have died of swine flu and one person was tested positive with the pandemic in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur, according to the district health official sources.

A deserted housewife has sold her child to another woman for only taka 100 at Hamirkutsa village under Bagmara thana recently. Utter poverty and fear of losing her job had forced her to sell the child. It is learnt, Mustari Khatun (18) daughter of Quddus of Hamirkutsa village was married five years ago to a man at Harifala village under Taherpur thana.

New data unveiled by the United Nations' children agency Sunday showed that 300 million children are trapped in poverty in South Asia -- almost half of the children in the region.

Bangladesh News.Net Saturday 31st October, 2009 In another round of recurring industrial violence in Bangladesh, at least four people were killed Saturday as garment factory workers clashed with police at Tongi on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Police arrested six activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League on charge of mugging on Dhaka University campus early yesterday.

Tajikistan News.Net Sunday 1st November, 2009 Bangladeshis drink most of the tea they produce and the new consumption trend has led to a steep fall in exports, say industry findings.