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‘Strong indications’ Bangladesh security forces used ‘unnecessary’ force: UN

August 16, 2024 admin

The United Nations report stressed the need for a rapid restoration of law and order. File | Photo Credit: AP The United Nations said on Friday (August 16, 2024) there were strong indications that the Bangladeshi security forces used unnecessary force in tackling the student-led uprising that ousted premier Sheikh Hasina. Ms. Hasina, 76, fled…

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Bangladesh Crisis Can Hit Medical Tourism Inflow By 10-15% In 2024: Report

August 14, 2024 admin

Contribution of medical tourism to entire Indian hospital sector is about 3 to 5 per cent. (File) Mumbai: The socio-political unrest in Bangladesh has impacted the medical tourism inflow from the neighbouring country and if the turbulence persists the total footfall from the country may drop by 10-15 per cent this year, a report has…

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Amit Shah Meets Meghalaya Chief Minister, Discusses Crisis In Bangladesh

August 12, 2024 admin

A night curfew has been imposed in the border areas of Meghalaya for the past few days. New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, today reviewed the ongoing situation in Bangladesh and its implications in northeast India in a meeting with Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and his deputy Prestone Tynsong in Delhi The three…

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Efforts to infuse narrative what happened in our neighbourhood will happen in India deeply concerning: Jagdeep Dhankhar

August 11, 2024 admin

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar | Photo Credit: AP Taking strong exception to some remarks by a few Congress leaders comparing the situation in Bangladesh with India, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday (August 10) said efforts by some to infuse a narrative that what happened in our neighbourhood is bound to happen in our country…

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Bangladesh Chief Justice says will resign after protest ultimatum: broadcaster

August 10, 2024 admin

File photo of a Bangladeshi soldier standing guard at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: AFP The Chief Justice of Bangladesh’s top court said Saturday he had agreed to resign “in principle” after an ultimatum to do so from protesters, broadcaster Jamuna TV reported. Obaidul Hassan, who was appointed to helm the Supreme…

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India-Bangladesh ties not dependent on Awami League, says BNP

August 10, 2024 admin

Indo-Bangla bilateral ties are not dependent on the Awami League and it is “natural to evoke adverse reactions” in Bangladesh over India giving refuge to former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Senior leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said on Friday, August 9, 2024. Ground Zero:The making of the Bangladesh revolt Asserting that India was “very…

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The making of the Bangladesh revolt

August 9, 2024 admin

As dawn approached on Saturday morning of July 20, 2024 a disturbing scene unfolded in Monsur Nagar Housing Estate in Savar upazila, on the outskirts of Dhaka. Some eight to 10 plainclothes men identifying themselves as being from the detective branch (DB) of Bangladesh Police, surrounded the home of Abul Khair, a 70-year-old, who had…

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Bangladesh Crisis: Bangladesh unrest: Know who’s who in Muhammad Yunus-led interim government

August 9, 2024 admin

Members of the newly formed interim government are sworn in at the Bangabhaban, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 8, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Seventeen members of Bangladesh’s interim government took their oaths at a ceremony in Dhaka on Thursday (August 8, 2024). Nobel laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus, 84, head of the caretaker government, has taken a super-portfolio encompassing…

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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus takes oath as head of Bangladesh’s interim government

August 8, 2024 admin

Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin (left) administers the oath of office to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as the leader of the country’s interim government at a ceremony in Dhaka on August 8, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP A 14-member interim government in Bangladesh, under the leadership of Noble Laureate Muhammad Yunus, was sworn in on Thursday…

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Khaleda Zia: The Begum who came in from the cold

August 8, 2024 admin

The story so far: On August 6, a day after Sheikh Hasina resigned as Prime Minister and left Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia, the ailing ex-Prime Minister of the South Asian country of 170 million was released on President Mohammed Shahabuddin’s orders. The 79-year-old chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been under house arrest since…

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