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Bangladesh’s Ruling Party Signs MoU with China’s Communist Party0
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- March 21, 2019
Pulack Ghatack Dhaka 2019-03-21 Officials from the Chinese Communist Party and Bangladesh’s Awami League exchange copies of a memorandum of understanding on boosting cooperation between the leading political parties of the two countries, in Dhaka, March 21, 2019. Representatives of Bangladesh’s Awami League (AL) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) signed the first-ever memorandum
READ MOREBangladeshi Diplomat Missing for 15 Months Now Home, Relatives Say0
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- March 18, 2019
Prapti Rahman, Dhaka, 2019-03-18 Bangladeshi Diplomat Missing for 15 Months Now Home, Relatives Say A retired diplomat who went missing in Bangladesh in December 2017 has returned home, his daughters said Monday, but they declined to give further information. The case looked set to become the latest in a series of unsolved disappearances in the
READ MOREChinese Embassy Official: No Money Offered to Rohingya in Bangladesh0
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- March 7, 2019
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Sunil Barua on Mar 07, 2019 Benar News China has not offered Rohingya refugees money to repatriate to Myanmar, a Chinese Embassy attaché in Dhaka told BenarNews, after the news outlet reported that a delegation of officials from Beijing had promised refugee families up to U.S. $6,000 each if they
READ MOREBangladesh: ICC Officials will Visit Rohingya Camps0
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- March 6, 2019
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Mar 06, 2019 International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors will visit refugee camps in Bangladesh later this week as part of an examination into a mass exodus of Rohingya from Myanmar that began in August 2017, Bangladeshi officials said Wednesday. The ICC team was due to arrive on Friday in Cox’s
READ MOREEven with a Harvard pedigree, caste follows ‘like a shadow’0
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- March 5, 2019
WGBH News March 05, 2019 By Phillip Martin This article is part one of the “Caste in America” series. This series was supported by funding from the Pulitzer Center and produced in partnership with WGBH. Like many migrants to America from India, Suraj Yengde is well-educated. At 30, he has a doctorate and a masters of
READ MOREChinese Envoy Offered Rohingya Money to Return to Myanmar: Sources0
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- March 5, 2019
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Sunil Barua on Mar 05, 2019 04:01 pm A Chinese government delegation met Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh, promising each refugee up to U.S. $6,000 if they returned to Rakhine state in Myanmar, a Bangladeshi official and refugee leaders said Tuesday. Sun Gouxiang, China’s special envoy for Asian Affairs, met with
READ MOREBangladesh to Launch Crackdown in Wake of Massive Dhaka Fire0
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- February 22, 2019
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Feb 22, 2019 Bangladeshi authorities said Friday they would launch a crackdown to stop businesses from illegally keeping chemical warehouses with highly flammable materials near residential areas, after a massive overnight fire killed nearly 70 people in Dhaka’s old section. The Dhaka South City Corporation said it would lead the
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India, Saudi Arabia Agree to Exert Pressure on ‘Terror-Supporting’ Countries0
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- February 21, 2019
By Rohit Wadhwaney on Feb 20, 2019 02:00 pm The leaders of India and Saudi Arabia vowed to increase pressure on countries that back terrorism as they met Wednesday amid rising tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad over last week’s deadly militant attack on security forces in Indian Kashmir. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
READ MOREKashmir Attack New Rallying Point Ahead of Indian Polls0
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- February 19, 2019
By Rohit Wadhwaney on Feb 19, 2019 Nationwide outrage over a militant assault that killed nearly 50 security personnel in Indian Kashmir last week and escalated tensions with rival Pakistan could boost India’s Hindu nationalist government ahead of an imminent general election, analysts said Tuesday. Last Thursday’s suicide bombing “can come as a major boon”
READ MOREIndia: Suspected Mastermind of Kashmir Attack, 2 Aides Killed0
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- February 18, 2019
By Mohammad Amin Pirzada on Feb 18, 2019 12:10 pm Security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir shot dead three suspected militants on Monday, including an alleged planner of last week’s car-bomb attack that killed 46 soldiers, authorities said. Four Indian army soldiers, a policeman and a civilian were also killed during a 16-hour gun battle in
READ MOREBangladesh to Send Troops to Saudi Arabia under Defense Pact0
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- February 14, 2019
Kamran Reza Chowdhury, Dhaka, 2019-02-14 A man inspects bus wreckage at the site of a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Saada, Yemen, Aug. 12, 2018. AP Bangladesh is to deploy hundreds of soldiers to Saudi Arabia for demining operations along the kingdom’s border with war-torn Yemen under a new bilateral defense deal between Dhaka and Riyadh,
READ MOREBangladesh Minister Brushes Aside US Lawmakers’ Concern about Electoral Fraud0
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- February 13, 2019
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Feb 13, 2019 03:35 pm Bangladesh’s new foreign minister said Wednesday he was not concerned by a letter from a U.S. congressional committee that alleged fraud and other irregularities in last December’s general election. Minister A.K. Abdul Momen said the South Asian nation had the backing of the American government
READ MOREIndia: Security Forces Kill 5 Suspected Militants in Kashmir0
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- February 11, 2019
By Mohammad Amin Pirzada on Feb 10, 2019 Five suspected Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militants were killed in a battle with security forces in Indian Kashmir on Sunday, while 10 civilians were injured in clashes that followed, police said. Police said the civilians were injured after villagers gathered at the site of the battle in the
READ MOREIndia: 7 Muslims Get Life Behind Bars for Deaths of 2 Hindu Boys0
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- February 9, 2019
By Rohit Wadhwaney on Feb 08, 2019 05:07 pm An Indian court sentenced seven Muslim men to life in prison on Friday for killing two members of the Hindu community over a motorcycle accident, sparking large-scale riots that claimed dozens of lives in north India’s Uttar Pradesh state almost six years ago. The Muzaffarnagar district sessions court handed
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