Dhaka: Bangladeshi police on Sunday launched a process to charge a 21-year-old university student for sedition after he posted a comment on Facebook alleging Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's hand in the mysterious disappearance of an opposition politician. "Sohel Mollah (the suspect) is now in jail as we initiated a process for his indictment on sedition charges for threatening the prime minister," police chief of northern Mymensingh Gola Kibria said. He...
03:50 PM, Jun 04, 2012
Dhaka: The son of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and 29 others were on Sunday indicted by a special court for a grenade attack in 2004 that killed 24 people. The special court framed the charges against 30 people, including Zia's son Tarique Rahman, who is currently in Britain, Xinhua reported. The court set March 28 for the next hearing in the case. Twenty-four people, including Awami League leader...
08:01 PM, Mar 18, 2012
New Delhi: Bangladesh High Commissioner Tareq Karim accused the Bangaldesh Opposition of being involved in the coup attempt against the Sheikh Hasina government. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Karim also said that the attempt to remove the government was linked to the 1971 war crimes trial. He further praised the army for foiling the coup attempt saying, "Bangladesh army is turning professional. The entrenched political elements are being thrown out." "We ...
04:52 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Bangladesh Army has arrested two ex-officers and a court of inquiry has been ordered against them over an alleged coup plot. There are serving and ex-officers who are behind the plot. Two top ranking officers also faced interrogation. The Bangladesh Army foiled a coup attempt against the Sheikh Hasina government in the neighbouring country. According to the Bangladesh Army, certain officers with 'extreme religious views' were behind...
08:36 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Dhaka: The Bangladesh army has foiled a coup attempt against the Sheikh Hasina government in the neighbouring country. According to the Bangladesh army, certain officers with 'extreme religious views' were behind the bid, adding that 16 officers, two of them retired, were involved in it. The Army further said that the process of bringing the culprits to book had begun. Army spokesman Brigadier General Muhammad Masud Razzaq said some of...
05:31 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Dhaka: A university lecturer, who posted a Facebook status wishing for the death of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was today sentenced to six-month in jail by a Bangladeshi court. Muhammad Ruhul Amin Khandaker was sentenced after he failed to respond to a summon to appear before the High Court in connection with the post, of which the court took a suo motto notice. Khandakar was handed out the jail term...
05:38 PM, Jan 04, 2012
Addu: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday conveyed to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina that the Teesta water-sharing accord will take some more time till consensus is reached and the interests of all concerned, including those of West Bengal, are addressed. Manmohan Singh held wide-ranging talks with Sheikh Hasina at Hotel Shangri La in the idyllic Addu Atoll on Thursday afternoon after back-to-back talks with the leaders of Pakistan and...
12:23 AM, Nov 11, 2011
New York: Hailing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's recent visit to Bangladesh as "really successful," Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina has expressed optimism that her country will be able to work out the Teesta water sharing agreement with India. India and Bangladesh had inked various pacts during Singh's visit earlier in September, but could not sign a deal on the Teesta water sharing. However, Hasina said she was not disappointed that the...
11:48 AM, Sep 21, 2011
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said India and Bangladesh will soon ink a pact on Teesta water sharing, but refused to specify any timeline for the landmark deal. "I will not mention any specific timeline for it. Rather, I will say that it is a matter of time. The two countries will ink the Teesta deal through discussion," Hasina told top leaders of the ruling Awami League in...
10:55 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Dhaka: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina signed a big accord on border demarcation ending their 4-decade old disputes over boundaries. India has also announced 24-hour access to Bangladeshis in the Tin Bigha Corridor. A visit that is being described as path breaking, even historic, began on a rather sour note. The Bangladesh Foreign Ministry summoned India's high commissioner to lodge a protest over Delhi backing...
07:49 AM, Sep 07, 2011
Dhaka: Taking the trade route to cement bilateral ties, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday night announced duty-free import of 61 items from Bangladesh that were barred from entering India. A majority of these items 46 to be precise, relate to textiles, particularly ready made garments. Singh, now on his maiden bilateral visit to Bangladesh, said India was "fully alive to the problem of trade imbalance between India and Bangladesh."...
02:25 AM, Sep 07, 2011
Dhaka: India and Bangladesh tonight signed a long-term Comprehensive Framework Agreement on Cooperation and Development that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described as a "contemporary blueprint" encompassing all forms and sectors of cooperation ranging from security, trade, transit and river water-sharing. The broad sweep of the agreement, signed by Singh and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina at the end of their restricted and delegation-level talks here, sets out the vision, principles,...
12:55 AM, Sep 07, 2011
Kolkata: The Prime Minister's Bangladesh visit seems to have run into troubled waters with West Bengal Chief Minster Mamta Banerjee backing out of it. She is said to be upset with final draft of the Teesta Water Sharing Agreement. After she decided to walk out of the visit, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai, on Monday, made it clear that no agreement will be signed without the state's consent. "Anything agreed between...
08:38 PM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: India's jostling with China for resources and influence will be the backdrop to a visit to Bangladesh by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh next week, looming large over expected progress on a border dispute, water sharing and trade. New Delhi's relations with its eastern neighbour have warmed thanks to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's clampdown on separatist insurgents in India's isolated north-east who long sheltered across the shared border....
07:18 AM, Sep 03, 2011
Dhaka: Bangladesh is likely to soon hand over detained key ULFA leader Anup Chetia to India, which has been pressing for his repatriation for a long time. Home Minister Sahara Khatun stated this on Wednesday, close on the heels of her Indian counterpart P Chidambaram's visit to Dhaka during which he had asked Bangladesh to hand over the ULFA General Secretary "as early as possible". Her comments also came ahead...
05:49 PM, Aug 03, 2011
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