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  • Bangladesh Gives India Greenlight to Install Surveillance Radar System0

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    • October 13, 2019

    Kamran Reza Chowdhury Dhaka 2019-10-07 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi watches his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh Hasina, as she waves to the media before their meeting in New Delhi, Oct. 5, 2019.  AP Bangladesh will allow India to install surveillance radar along its coast on the Bay of Bengal, leaders of the two nations said during

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  • Bangladesh Police Official Not Sure if Major Zia is Alive0

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    • October 12, 2019

    Kamran Reza Chowdhury Dhaka 2019-10-11 BenarNews Bangladeshi investigators do not know if the notorious Major Zia is alive, Dhaka police said Friday, as authorities announced the arrests of four alleged members of Ansar al-Islam, the banned militant group that the ex-army officer allegedly led. Former Maj. Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque (alias Major Zia) has been

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  • Bangladesh Takes Steps to Control Movements of Rohingya0

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    • September 6, 2019

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury and Sunil Barua on Sep 06, 2019 Bangladesh is taking tough measures to contain an increase in violence in Rohingya refugee camps after the crisis over the mass exodus of the persecuted group from Myanmar entered its third year. Describing the violence in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps as a security

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  • Analysts: Bangladeshi Militants Change Tactics, Target Police in ‘Lone-Wolf’ Bombings0

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    • September 5, 2019

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Sep 05, 2019 Three years after an elaborately planned terrorist attack left 29 dead at a Dhaka café, militants have become active again in Bangladesh but reduced to mounting low-intensity, “lone-wolf” attacks that target police, analysts say. Since late April, a series of bomb explosions in the Bangladeshi capital have

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  • 4 Bangladeshis Sentenced to Prison over 2014 West Bengal Explosion0

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    • September 2, 2019

    By Paritosh Paul on Aug 30, 2019 An Indian court on Friday sentenced 19 suspected members of the banned militant group JMB, including four Bangladeshi nationals, to serve six to 10 years in prison, after convicting them of involvement in a 2014 explosion that killed two people. Improvised explosive devices were being manufactured five years

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  • In Assam, People Fret as India Releases Citizens’ Registry0

    Paritosh Paul Kolkata 2019-08-30 India has deployed paramilitary troops in northeastern Assam state to quell potential unrest as millions of people anxiously wait to see if they are on an official citizens’ list being released by the government on Saturday. Those who do not make it onto the National Register of Citizens, mainly Bengali-speaking residents,

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  • China Proposes Meeting with Bangladesh, Myanmar over Rohingya Repatriation0

    By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Aug 29, 2019 Beijing has proposed a fresh tripartite meeting with Bangladesh and Myanmar to jumpstart the repatriation of Rohingya Muslims, Bangladesh’s foreign minister said Thursday, as pressure mounted for the two neighboring countries to find a solution to the refugee crisis. China’s proposal came a week after a second

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  • Two Years After Rohingya Influx, Tensions Rise in Bangladesh0

    By Sunil Barua and Kamran Reza Chowdhury Aug 25, 2019 Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees rallied in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday to mark the second anniversary of violence that caused three quarters of a million people to flee Myanmar, as officials in Dhaka blasted the neighboring country over the latest failed repatriation bid. Rohingya

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  • Kolkata Police: Indian Leader of JMB Militant Group Arrested0

    By Poritosh Paul on Aug 26, 2019 A police special task force in Kolkata arrested a leader of the banned Islamic outfit Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a police official told reporters on Monday. Suspect Md Ejaz Ahmad, 30, was arrested in India’s Bihar province Monday morning, task force joint commissioner Shuvankar Sinha Sarker told reporters.

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  • Bangladesh: Fresh Attempt to Repatriate Thousands of Rohingya Collapses0

    Abdur Rahman and Sharif Khiam Teknaf, Bangladesh and Dhaka 2019-08-22 AP A well-publicized second attempt to return thousands of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar collapsed on Thursday, with the U.N. refugee agency and Bangladeshi officials saying that none of the 3,450 people cleared for repatriation were willing to go back. UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency,

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  • Halt Rohingya Repatriation, Human Rights Groups Say0

    Sunil Barua and Jesmin Papri Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and Dhaka 2019-08-21 AFP Human rights groups urged Bangladesh and Myanmar on Wednesday to stop a second attempt to repatriate thousands of stateless Rohingya refugees until their return is “safe, voluntary and dignified.” Last week, Bangladeshi officials told reporters that they were working with Myanmar to repatriate

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  • Officials: Myanmar, Bangladesh Working to Repatriate 3,450 Rohingya Refugees0

    Sunil Barua and Jesmin Papri Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and Dhaka 2019-08-16 Bangladesh and Myanmar said Friday they were working on the first repatriation of Rohingya refugees since members of the ethnic minority fled a massive military crackdown in Rakhine state two years ago, amid confusion over how the process would unfold. “Myanmar has given clearance

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  • Bangladesh Garment Workers Face Long Workdays, Higher Living Cost0

    By Jesmin Papri on Aug 15, 2019 04:55 pm Workers in the industry that powers Bangladesh’s economy face a soaring cost of living and long workdays, say union leaders for the garment sector and its 3.5 million employees. Workers have not benefited from a wage hike issued late last year as they have seen prices

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  • Bangladesh Gives Myanmar 25,000 Rohingya Names for Potential Repatriation0

    Sunil Barua and Kamran Reza Chowdhury Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh and Dhaka 2019-07-29 Bangladesh on Monday handed Myanmar a fresh list of 25,000 Rohingya for potential repatriation, after a high-level delegation from Naypyidaw visited Rohingya refugee camps and explained that full citizenship for the stateless minority was not an option. Myint Thu, Myanmar’s permanent secretary for

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