Momen questions quality of US HR report on Bangladesh
April 22 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen File photo
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen has questioned the quality of the US human rights...
Tipu Munshi holds meeting with Mamata Banerjee
April 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Tipu Munshi holds meeting with Mamata BanerjeeBSS
Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi had a meeting with Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister...
New media bill brings journalists under bureaucracy’s thum...
April 20 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Editors' Council has expressed concern over the newly placed Mass Media Employees (Services and Conditions) Bill 2022 and said it will...
Govt doesn’t want interference in internal matters
April 19 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The state minister for foreign affairs Md Shahriar Alam speaks with reporters while responding to the US Human Rights report on 17 Ap...
Heritage, history, and Dhakaiya food in Bangladesh
April 18 ,2022
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By: Faisal Mahmud
AM Emran showing off the family china. This 100-year-old warming plate is hollow and was filled with hot water through the hole in it...
Awami League: Discussions focus on next possible general s...
April 18 ,2022
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By: Anowar Hossain
Speculations abound about the next national council of the ruling party Awami League. This council to elect party leadership may be hel...
Ex-Bangladesh envoy fears ‘trumped-up charges’ to force hi...
April 16 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Mohamed Khairuzzaman believes Bangladesh will seek his extradition after finding him guilty in absentia in a corruption case.
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'Hijab Row' in Bangladesh: Hindu teacher accused of making...
April 16 ,2022
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By: Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
Representative image of students in Bangladesh. Photo: Scott Wallace/World Bank
New Delhi: In what seems to be a direct reper...
Democracy and rule of law may be challenges in the days to...
April 15 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Issues like democracy and the rule of law may become big challenges in taking forward relations between Dhaka and Washington, former Ba...
The U.S. should stop nickel and diming India and Banglades...
April 15 ,2022
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By: Sanjay Kathuria
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurate a major road named after former...
Peter Haas: We will continue to discuss the issues of conc...
April 14 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Peter Haas, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Prothom Alo
Peter Haas joined as US Ambassador to Bangladesh last month. In an interview w...
US stands firm on sanctions on rights abusers in Banglades...
April 14 ,2022
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By: Kerry Kennedy& Tirana Hassan
Bangladesh’s special security force unit, the Rapid Action Battalion. Photo: Getty Images
On April 4, the United States mark...
US HR report: State minister dismisses claims of giving la...
April 14 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
State minister for foreign affairs Md Shahriar Alam speaks to media at his office in Dhaka.Prothom Alo file photo
State minister o...
US State Department’s alarming report on human rights in B...
April 14 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Journalist Rozina Islam being arrested.
The 2021 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Bangladesh prepared by the US State D...
Bangladesh loses NY lawsuit over $81m cyber heist
April 13 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Photo: Pixabay
The Supreme Court of New York has dismissed Bangladesh Bank's 2020 civil complaint over cyber heist of its $81 mill...
Air pollution kills 240,000 annually in Bangladesh: WHO re...
April 11 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Air pollution from fossil fuels kills approximately 240,000 people in the country every year with the deaths of over seven million newb...
Proposed law threatens to turn Bangladesh into 'surveillan...
April 11 ,2022
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By: Faisal Mahmud
The Bangladesh government is finalising a legislation which, if passed in parliament, will make the country a “surveillance...
No need for volunteers from Bangladesh to join Russian spe...
April 9 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
A view shows a convoy of pro-Russian troops during Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the separatist-controlled town of Volnovakha in th...
Why cronyism could make Bangladesh go the Sri Lanka and Pa...
April 9 ,2022
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By: Pratim Ranjan Bose
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
The two-year-long economic disruption has triggered serious hardship and unrest in two cou...
US wants to sell high-tech weapons to Bangladesh
April 9 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh and the USA held a security dialogue in Washington on Wednesday where both countries discussed signing two specialised defen...
‘Discussions on lifting sanctions on RAB will continue’
April 8 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh and the United States have agreed to continue talks on lifting US sanctions on the country’s elite force Rapid Actio...
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