Attacks, land grabs leave Bangladesh’s Indigenous groups o...
August 2 ,2021
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By: Zarif Faiaz
Buddhist monk Agrojyoti Bhante who was brutally attacked by two machete-wielding men at a monastery in Khagrachari, Chittagong Hill T...
Bangladesh, India start freight train services on Haldibar...
August 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh and India on Sunday started regular operation of freight trains through restored Haldibari-Chilahati rail route, aiming to "...
General SM SHafiuddin Ahmed takes charge as Army chief
June 25 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed has officially taken charge as the new chief of Bangladesh Army staff.
He formally took over from his pred...
Bangladesh may have a solution for Sri Lanka’s muddled fer...
June 25 ,2021
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Bangladesh scientists introduce new flood resistant variety of rice to farmer.
Bangladesh, which has made a success of agricul...
In Bangladesh’s empty Armenian church, a lone Hindu worshi...
June 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
With no priest to minister and no faithful to pray, an Armenian church in Bangladesh has one last parishioner: a Hindu caretaker doing...
Modi government’s approach towards India’s smaller neighbo...
June 23 ,2021
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By: Sushant Singh
On May 21, Bangladesh’s foreign minister AK Abdul Momen spoke to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi when Beijing pledged to provide...
A reminder for New Delhi: India isn’t Bangladesh’s gatekee...
June 22 ,2021
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By: Adam Pitman
DO NOT REUSE A woman in Dhaka during the Shakrain festival. | Ata Adnan
A new generation of Bangladeshis are defining their c...
Are illegal exports to Bangladesh spurring rat hole coal m...
June 22 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-allied Meghalaya government is yet to bring the coal mafia under leash even as alleged illegal exports...
Diarrhoea kills at least 4 Rohingya on remote Bangladesh i...
June 19 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh officials say they have contained a diarrhoea outbreak that has killed four Rohingya refugees and infected 1,500 others, ala...
Bangladesh cricketer Shakib suspended after umpire outburs...
June 14 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib al-Hasan has been suspended for three matches and fined for “showing aggressive behaviour towards t...
SM Shafiuddin Ahmed made new army chief
June 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Lieutenant General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed has been made the new chief of staff of Bangladesh Army.
The Defence Ministry made the announce...
Australia: Kick-starting a new strategic and defence partn...
June 10 ,2021
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By: David Brewster
Australia’s 2020 defence strategic update identifies the northeast Indian Ocean as a priority area as part of our immediate regio...
What will it take for Bangladesh to win its battle against...
June 10 ,2021
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By: Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed
India’s devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic poses a threat to neighbouring Bangladesh. Many believe that the fail...
Bangladesh’s unplanned relocation of Rohingya refugees to...
June 10 ,2021
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By: Meenakshi Ganguly
In late May, thousands of Rohingya refugees whom Bangladesh authorities had relocated to remote Bhasan Char island broke out of their s...
A budget for business
June 4 ,2021
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By: Zahid Hussain
The budget is business friendly, particularly businesses catering to the domestic market, both in expenditures and financing. The econo...
Poacher suspected of killing 70 Bengal tigers captured aft...
June 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
According to the Bangladesh forest department, the Bengal tiger population fell from 440 in 2004 to a record low of 106 in 2015. ...
Rohingya protest against living conditions on Bangladesh i...
June 2 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Several thousand Rohingya refugees have staged “unruly” protests against living conditions on a cyclone-prone island off Ba...
The world should learn from India’s Covid-19 cataclysm
June 1 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
In cities at least, India's nightmarish second wave of Covid-19 finally seems to be ebbing. Delhi has brought its test positivity rate...
CHAYA: Bangladesh’s First space sharing marketplace
May 31 ,2021
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By: Irfan Akram
Mehraab Anwar (left) and Farhia Tabassum (right) launched CHAYA in 2019. Photo: Courtesy
If you are a content creator or working i...
77% of new poor didn’t receive pandemic relief
May 31 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Some 77% of the new poor – those who have gone below the poverty line during the Covid-19 pandemic – remained out of the go...
Italy extends entry ban for India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
May 31 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Italy extended Sunday an entry ban for people coming from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, as a continued precaution against the more t...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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