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Bangladesh Court Sentences 7 Militants to Death for Nation’s Deadliest Terror Attack 0
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- November 27, 2019
Kamran Reza Chowdhury Dhaka 2019-11-27 Benar News 2019-11-27 A Bangladeshi court convicted and sentenced seven men to death Wednesday for their involvement in the country’s deadliest terrorist attack that left 29 people dead, most of them foreigners, at a Dhaka café in 2016. BenarNews reporters saw one of the convicted men wearing a prayer cap
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China Can Use Bangladesh’s Largest Seaports, PM Hasina Says 0
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- November 13, 2019
Kamran Reza Chowdhury Dhaka 2019-11-13 Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina delivers a speech at parliament in Dhaka, Nov. 13, 2019.Focus Bangla Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told lawmakers Wednesday that China could use Bangladesh’s two largest seaports, in a move praised by analysts, weeks after Dhaka signed an agreement with Beijing’s regional rival, India, for access
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Bangladesh Confirms Talks with US for Fighter Jets, Combat Helicopters 0
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- November 1, 2019
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury on Oct 30, 2019 Bangladesh is negotiating to purchase fighter jets, missiles systems and combat helicopters from the United States, a Bangladeshi official said Wednesday, underscoring that the South Asian nation was taking steps to modernize its armed forces. A senior official of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League party gave the confirmation
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Bangladesh to Regulate Facebook, YouTube Users, Minister Says 0
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- October 31, 2019
By Sharif Khiam on Oct 30, 2019 The Bangladesh government plans to require its citizens to obtain licenses to use social media platforms such as Facebook and YouTube, and has already installed software giving it the ability to remove online content, Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar told BenarNews. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government has already faced
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Bangladesh: Thousands Rally after 4 Killed over Controversial Facebook Post 0
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- October 22, 2019
By Sharif Khiam on Oct 21, 2019 Thousands protested across Bangladesh on Monday over the police killing of four people during clashes stemming from a Facebook post that criticized the Prophet Muhammad and angered Muslims. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called for calm, saying a Muslim man had hacked the account of a Hindu youth and
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Bangladesh: Domestic Workers Tell of Sexual Abuse in Saudi Arabia 0
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- October 19, 2019
Jesmin Papri Dhaka 2019-10-16 A BRAC official talks to women at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka following their return from Saudi Arabia, Aug. 26, 2019. BenarNews 19 October 2019 In late August, when an unusually high number of Bangladeshi women returned home from their jobs in Saudi Arabia in a single day, the government
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Bangladesh Gives India Greenlight to Install Surveillance Radar System 0
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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 Alive 0
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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 Rohingya 0
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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’ Bombings 0
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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 Explosion 0
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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’ Registry 0
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- August 30, 2019
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 Repatriation 0
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- August 29, 2019
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 Bangladesh 0
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- August 26, 2019
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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