Shahriar Alam cancels India visit amid citizenship law ten...
January 12 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Deputy Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Shahriar Alam has cancelled his visit to India amid tension over Citizenship Amendment Act....
Bangladesh economic growth may slow to 7.8% in FY20: Fitch...
January 12 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The projected growth rate is 0.4 percentage points below the government projection of 8.2 percent for the fiscal year 2019-20
Banglade...
India to install new advanced, anti-cut fence at Banglades...
January 11 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The government of India is in the process of replacing the old fence at the Bangladesh border. According to sources, the new fencing is...
Bangladeshi army installs barbwire fence along Rohingya ca...
January 11 ,2020
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By: Muktadir Rashid
Bangladeshi soldiers oversee the installation of pillars for a barbwire fence near a Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox’s Ba...
Purchased from China, 2 warships dock in Bangladeshi port
January 11 ,2020
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By: Kamran Reza Chowdhury
Two warships that Bangladesh purchased from China arrived in the South Asian nation on Thursday, officials said, less than three months...
Bangladesh to receive final surplus UK C-130J airlifter in...
January 10 ,2020
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By: Gareth Jennings
C-130J Hercules transport aircraft
Bangladesh is to receive the last of five UK-surplus Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules transp...
BGB demands Rohingya return to Myanmar
January 9 ,2020
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By: Muktadir Rashid
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) chief, Major General Shafeenul Islam, has held talks with his counterparts from Myanmar saying the on...
India-Bangladesh on a diplomatic tightrope
January 8 ,2020
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By: Faisal Mahmud
For the current Bangladeshi regime, maintaining the stance that the formation of the National Register of Citizen (NRC) and the subsequ...
Strained Bangladesh-Myanmar security ties in focus with bo...
January 8 ,2020
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By: Prashanth Parameswaran
Over the weekend, Bangladesh and Myanmar held the latest iteration of a senior-level border conference. The conference put the spotligh...
NRC scare may have forced thousands to return to Banglades...
January 7 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The spurt in infiltration arrests in Bangladesh over the past couple of months - around 450 since mid-November - is the tip of the iceb...
Bangladesh shipyard lays keel for five patrol vessels for...
January 6 ,2020
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By: SAM Report
Bangladesh's Khulna Shipyard Ltd has begun construction of a second batch of five Padma-class patrol vessels on order for the Banglades...
Bangladesh court issues arrest warrant to former chief jus...
January 6 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
A court in Bangladesh capital Dhaka Sunday issued arrest warrants to former Bangladeshi chief justice and 10 others in a case for the...
How CAA and NRC affect India-Bangladesh ties
January 3 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Under the Narendra Modi government, India and Bangladesh have made strong progress.
Five years ago, a landmark boundary agreement was...
Bangladesh fortifies Island near Myanmar with heavy weapon...
January 3 ,2020
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By: Muktadir Rashid
Authorities with the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) force are fortifying St. Martin’s Island, just south of Cox’s Bazar and...
Chinese firm to conduct key studies for planned township f...
January 2 ,2020
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By: Kamran Reza Chowdhury
A Chinese firm has agreed to conduct feasibility and environmental impact studies free of charge for a new township that Bangladesh&rsq...
Bangladesh saw 388 extrajudicial killings in 2019: Watchdo...
January 1 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Alongside an increase in incidents of rape, the country saw 388 cases of extrajudicial killings in the year of 2019, said a new report...
Russia and Bangladesh discuss deliveries of Mi-35M helicop...
January 1 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
The head of the Russian delegation at the INDO DEFENCE-2018 exhibition, Mikhail Petukhov, said that Russia and Bangladesh are discussin...
Thalassaemia risk on the rise, Bangladesh unprepared
January 1 ,2020
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By: Shafiq Rahman
While thalassaemia poses as a big health threat, Bangladesh remains unprepared to deal with the disorder. The government has declared t...
Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan climbers need per...
December 21 ,2019
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By: SAM Staff
Mountaineers from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and China will have to take prior permission for climbing “open peaks”...
NRC: India’s contentions about Bangladesh are baseless, sa...
December 21 ,2019
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By: Shafiq Rahman
The Citizen’s Amendment Act (CAA) may seem to be India’s internal affair, but it has a serious impact on Bangladesh. Not on...
Bangladesh faults India on Citizenship Amendment Bill
December 18 ,2019
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen on Wednesday said the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill could weaken India’s historic cha...
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