The United Nations (UN), the United States (US) and the Human Rights Watch (HRW) have expressed grave concern at the ongoing deadly mayhem in Bangladesh. The UN and the US state department officials addressing daily press briefing at the respective headquarters on Friday also called upon all rival groups to stop violence and respect the…
The interactions between the Indian leaders and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Khaleda Zia have ushered hope for continuation of good relations between the two countries. But at the same time the assurances of cooperation reportedly extended to the Indian leaders by the former prime minister of Bangladesh exposed that her government in the past…
Bangladesh encountered several allegations over violation of human rights and instigation of violence when communal riots raged in neighbouring Assam state of northeast India last month and in Rakhine state in northwest Myanmar in June. The allegations based on unsubstantiated grounds were mooted as Bangladesh is contiguous with the troubled states of the two neighbouring countries. Also as most members of a beleaguered community in…
Bangladesh and US engagement is intensifying in line with the growing Washington’s interest in the moderate Muslim country. The visit of Bangladesh foreign minister, Dipu Moni, in Washington last September and her US counterpart, Hilary Rodham Clinton, counter visit in Dhaka in May and subsequent signing of a Partnership Dialogue are manifestation of the growing…
Bangladesh once again noted with hope a pledge of Myanmar when the latter recently apprised the former to take back all registered and unregistered Rohingya Muslim refugees from the country. The pledge came through Myanmar’s newly appointed envoy to Dhaka, who in contrast to his country’s president said all Rohingya now staying in Bangladesh would…
The confidence of most people in Bangladesh on the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has dwindled as the international rights watchdog apparently erred in preparing its latest report on Bangladesh, analysts said. Following publication of the report majority of the politically sensitive people in the country apparently could not support the New York-based HRW, which asked the Bangladesh authorities to suspend the…
Bangladesh managed to achieve an effective power generation capacity of 3500MW till 2009 and three and half years since then present government added 3300MW new power. Without fuel constraint the total generation could be 6800MW. Some persons may not like the way the new power generation has been added but all must appreciate that in…
An observation of the German foreign minister in response to a question at a recent joint news conference in Dhaka, might have hurt someone, but it carried a great lesson for the relevant people in the news media. “It is not my work to give any lesson…. I am here with a big high-level business…
The government of Bangladesh led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been facing a dilemma over a demand to shelter Rohingya Muslims fleeing deadly sectarian strife in the Rakhine state of Myanmar. The dilemma in the wake of an ongoing debate whether Bangladesh should allow more Rohingyas to enter the country or not, has seemingly embarrassed the…
Bangladesh, that desperately started seeking overseas funds for building a major infrastructure, has so far been assured of assistance and investment worth $12 billion from two friendly countries in Asia, officials said on Friday. The pledges of the $12 billion investment came almost simultaneously when two official teams from Malaysia and Qatar visited Bangladesh in…
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