Bangladesh on Friday deployed paramilitary border guards to beef up security after a top Islamist opposition leader was sentenced to death, sparking nationwide riots that killed at least 42 people. "Our troops were deployed in 15 troubled districts in aide of civil administration... BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) has been kept alert so it could move immediately wherever they are required," BGB chief major General Aziz Ahmed told reporters. ...
03:35 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Two people were killed on Saturday in continuing violence in Bangladesh as supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami party clashed with police while thousands of anti-Islamist protestors vowed to carry on their street campaign demanding death penalty for radical leaders being tried for alleged war crimes. ...
11:07 PM, Feb 23, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis have been thronging Shahbagh, a Dhaka landmark, demanding death sentence for 1971 War criminal Abdul Quader Mollah of the Jamaat-e-Islami. Following the murder of blogger Rajib who spearheaded the agitation, the gathering has grown manifold and the sentiments have been further galvanised. CNN-IBN's senior editor Suhasini Haidar joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the massive agitations in Dhaka over the 1971 War Crimes trials....
06:32 PM, Feb 18, 2013
What is underlying these protests and calls for counter strikes and meetings by the Jamaat is the secular-Islamist clash in Bangladesh. The Islamists who had seen much better days when Bangladesh was in army hands have seen their control slipping over the last decade. ...
06:05 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Several people were injured on Wednesday after violence gripped the Bangladeshi capital following fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami activists' violent protests at several places to protest the ongoing 1971 war trials. ...
08:57 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Pakistan is at present in a worse situation than it was in 1971, said disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan, warning that "the day will not be far off when we disintegrate again" if social evils are not rectified soon. ...
11:18 AM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: A midnight summit between Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Bhutto pleading with Gandhi to free 93,000 Pakistani prisoners of war, a failed Kashmir deal... The Simla accord, which marks its 40th anniversary on July 3, may be a distant echo today but its spirit of resolving all issues bilaterally seems to have prevailed. A resolution of the Kashmir dispute, the core strategic objective of the so-called "tacit...
11:25 AM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Veteran diplomat Henry Kissinger, the architect of the US' historic opening to China, has denied that that the US struck a secret pact with India to prevent an attack on West Pakistan in 1971. Known in India for unflattering comments on former prime minister Indira Gandhi, he sought to correct the picture, saying he always thought she was "an extremely strong and far-sighted woman". "India and the former...
12:09 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Around 10 days before war broke out between India and Pakistan in 1971, the then President of Pakistan Yahya Khan had given an inkling of his intentions to attack this country after taking a few drinks with an American journalist. Yahya had told the journalist on the day of their meeting that he would be "at the front within 10 days" when the American talked about getting back...
12:30 PM, Jan 16, 2012
On the 40th anniversary of the Indo-Pak war, CNN-IBN talks to the heroes of the 1971 war. ...
11:59 PM, Dec 15, 2011
Sarmila Bose's latest book, Dead Reckoning - Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, is possibly the most nuanced and non-partisan attempt to gauge the extent and magnitude of atrocities committed during the war. Till now, most works on the subject have been by Bangladeshi authors, who have mostly given in to their emotions than reason. Bose spent years travelling throughout the length and breadth of Bangladesh, went to numerous villages,...
07:49 PM, Aug 26, 2011
New Delhi: In wake of the Taliban attack on the Pakistan naval base in Karachi, India has carried out security audit of its vital installations, Army Chief General V K Singh said in New Delhi on Monday. "After this particular thing (Karachi attack) we have again carried out our audit and I think we are reasonably sure that the security audit will stand its veracity," he told reporters. The Army...
09:28 PM, Jun 06, 2011
New Delhi: Leading rights activist Ansar Burney claims that an Indian prisoner of war - captured during the 1971 war - has been found in a Pakistani jail. Burney says the PoW is Surjit Singh who was captured in 1971 and his jail term ended in December 2010. Burney says Surjit Singh is lodged in Quetta jail. Burney also says that he has sent petitions to Pakistan President Asif Zardari...
10:12 AM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: Forty years have passed since Indian soldiers fought Bangladesh's war of independence in 1971. 54 of them continue to languish in Pakistani jails. For the families of the prisoners of war its been a long ordeal. For forty years, it's been one photograph, countless memories, different hospitals and futile searches for Nirmal Kaur as she keeps looking for her missing husband Subedar Assa Singh, a prisoner of 1971...
09:32 AM, Feb 14, 2011
Tiwari received seven bravery awards including the Mention-in-Dispatch. ...
10:24 AM, Jun 23, 2009
No closure on mass murders, rapes committed during liberation war. ...
01:04 PM, Jun 08, 2009
The Champions League T20 2012 will kick off with South Africa's Nashua Titans taking on Australia's Perth Scorchers at Centurion on Saturday. The Titans qualified for the tournament by winning the domestic T20 competition in the country. They beat the Lions by 45 runs in a one-sided final. The Scorcher meanwhile qualified by making it to the Big Bash League final where they lost to Sydney Sixers by 7 wickets....
06:49 PM, Jul 06, 2008
Colombo: Fast bowler James Anderson and spinner Monty Panesar warmed up for England's two-Test series against Sri Lanka with rich hauls in the tour opener in Colombo on Thursday. Left-armer Panesar claimed 5-37 and Anderson took 4-19 as England bowled out the Sri Lanka Board XI for 169 on the first day of the three-day practice match at the Premadasa stadium. The tourists were six for no loss off seven...
04:30 PM, May 03, 2008
Ghaziabad: Keeping its reputation of being India's richest sporting body intact, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has paid taxes to the tune of Rs 250 crore for the last financial year, association vice-president Rajiv Shukla informed the reporters on Saturday. "The BCCI has paid taxes amounting to Rs 250 crore. BCCI is the only sporting organisation that has paid such a huge amount of tax," Shukla told...
09:02 PM, Feb 12, 2008
New Delhi: As calls for dropping Piyush Chawla from the playing XI get stronger, there are overheard discussions about the reason for persisting with the leg-spinner. Apparently, the team management wants to keep Ravichandran Ahswin as a surprise weapon for the knockout stages and not expose him to the opposition right away. India should easily be able to beat the Netherlands at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Wednesday and qualify for...
03:22 AM, Dec 28, 2007
