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Abrar Fahad killing: Bangladesh student was beaten for four hours 0
- Commentary, Featured
- October 10, 2019
9 October 2019 BBC Bangladesh student protests A Bangladeshi undergraduate student killed in his dormitory on Sunday days after criticising the government online was beaten for several hours before he died, witnesses told the BBC. Fellow students say Abrar Fahad was taken from his room around 20:00 (14:00 GMT) and beaten at least four hours.
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Iran tanker: US offers captain millions to hand over ship 0
- Blog
- September 8, 2019
BBC News 5 September 2019 The US state department has confirmed it offered millions of dollars to the captain of an Iranian oil tanker which is at the centre of a diplomatic row. Brian Hook, head of the department’s Iran Action Group, emailed the captain of the Adrian Darya 1 about sailing it somewhere the
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Kashmir: Why India and Pakistan fight over it 0
- Blog
- August 20, 2019
BBC News 20 August 2019 Nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan have fought two wars and a limited conflict over Kashmir. But why do they dispute the territory – and how did it start? How old is this fight? Kashmir is an ethnically diverse Himalayan region, covering around 86,000 sq miles (138 sq km), and famed
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Article 370: Has India pushed Kashmir to a point of no return?0
- Blog
- August 13, 2019
BBC News 13 August Indian-administered Kashmir has been under an unprecedented lockdown since last week after India revoked Article 370, a constitutional provision granting the region special status. Sumantra Bose, professor of international and comparative politics at the London School of Economics (LSE), explains why the decision is fraught with challenges. At the end of
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New leak claims Trump scrapped Iran nuclear deal ‘to spite Obama’0
- Blog
- July 14, 2019
BBC News 14 July 2019 Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK’s former ambassador to the US. Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of “diplomatic vandalism”, according to the Mail on Sunday. It says the memo was written after the
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Cricket World Cup: Bangladesh beat South Africa by 21 runs 0
- Blog
- June 2, 2019
By Matthew Henry 2 June 2019 BBC Sport ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, The Oval Bangladesh 330-6 (50 overs): Mushfiqur 78, Shakib 75 South Africa 309-8 (50 overs): Du Plessis 62, Mustafizur 3-67 Bangladesh won by 21 runs Scorecard; Table; Schedule Bangladesh stunned South Africa to start their World Cup campaign with a fine 21-run
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Analysis: China’s growing military ambition in Pakistan 0
- Blog
- March 10, 2019
By BBC Monitoring 10 March 2019 China’s much-discussed economic project in Pakistan, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – a part of Beijing’s ambitious trading network called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – is believed to be taking a “military turn”, with speculation that military cooperation has been outlined as part of the project. The speculation stems from a report
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Rakbar Khan: Did cow vigilantes lynch a Muslim farmer?0
- Blog
- February 24, 2019
BBC News 23 February 2019 A Muslim dairy farmer was stopped late one night last July as he led two cows down a track in rural Rajasthan, south of the Indian capital, Delhi. Within hours he was dead, but who killed him, asks the BBC’s James Clayton – the “cow vigilantes” he met on the
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Bangladesh election: PM Sheikh Hasina wins landslide in disputed vote 0
- Blog
- December 31, 2018
31 December 2018 BBC For the video CLICK Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has secured her third consecutive term with a landslide victory, Bangladesh’s Election Commission said on Monday. Her ruling party and its allies have won 288 of the 300 parliamentary seats contested, surpassing its previous election wins. The opposition has condemned the vote as
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India’s ‘surgical strikes’ in Kashmir: Truth or illusion?0
- Blog
- December 2, 2018
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Pakistani-administered Kashmir 23 October 2016 Image copyright AP Image caption India’s army said its forces attacked on 29 September – but gave few details India made headlines in late September after carrying out “surgical strikes” on militants across the de-facto border in disputed Kashmir. Days earlier insurgents had attacked
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Kartarpur corridor: A road to peace between India and Pakistan?0
- Blog
- November 30, 2018
Kartarpur corridor: A road to peace between India and Pakistan? By Secunder Kermani BBC News, Kartarpur 29 November 2018 Image caption Gurcharan Singh welcomes the opportunity to unite Indians and Pakistanis Seventy-five-year-old Gurcharan Singh was just a child during Partition in 1947, when his family left their home in the city of Sialkot, in
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Xinjiang official defends ‘education centres’ for Uighur Muslims 0
- Blog
- October 17, 2018
16 October 2018 The top official in China’s Xinjiang region has given the most detailed description yet of the alleged use of internment camps for Uighur Muslims. In an interview with state media, Shohrat Zakir said the “vocational education” centres were proving effective in staving off terrorism. He said “trainees” were grateful for the opportunity
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Bangladesh to hang 19 for deadly attack on 2004 rally 0
- Uncategorized
- October 10, 2018
BBC 10.10.18 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGE Image captionMore than 20 people died and hundreds were injured in the attack A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 19 people to death for their role in a deadly grenade attack on a 2004 political rally in the capital Dhaka. Those to hang include a former minister and deputy minister,
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India Assam: ‘I won’t die before I prove my Indian citizenship 0
- Blog
- October 7, 2018
3 September 2018 Image caption(L-R) Suchandra Goswami, Chandradhar Das and Ajit Das have all spent time in a detention camp Some 1,000 people have been sent to detention centres in India’s north-eastern state of Assam after being declared illegal citizens. BBC Hindi’s Nitin Srivastava reports on what life has been like for some of them.
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