The Border Guard Bangladesh has foiled 36 attempts by India’s Border Security Force to push people into Bangladesh following the West Bengal assembly election, home minister Salahuddin Ahmed told the Jatiya Sangsad on Wednesday.
Indian authorities are forcibly expelling ethnic Bengali residents, mostly Muslims from West Bengal state, to Bangladesh without basic due process, Human Rights Watch said in a press release on Wednesday...
The Border Guard Bangladesh foiled two more push-in attempts by the Indian Border Security Force along Chapainawabganj and Jalampur on Monday night.
IN 2008, during my tenure with the University of Dhaka, I had a three-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Forum on Contemporary Theory in Baroda, India. I made friends with some Indian researchers there. Once I asked one of them about major writers in India. Most of the names they mentioned in response to my question were from Bengal. I wondered and asked...
Prime minister’s adviser on information and broadcasting Zahed Ur Rahman on Tuesday said that he decided not to enter India and instead returned to Bangladesh in an instant protest against the incident at Delhi airport, where he had to wait about...
The Indian Border Security Force reportedly exploded two crude bombs after members of the Border Guard Bangladesh and local people foiled its push-in bids at Azizpur border point under Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat district on Sunday night.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday summoned Indian deputy high commissioner to Bangladesh Pawan Badhe over the prime minister’s adviser for policy and strategy Zahed Ur Rahman’s return from Delhi airport as he was stopped by...
Foreign affairs minister Khalilur Rahman said on Monday that his ministry was taking appropriate measures against ‘unexpected incident’ with prime minister’s adviser for policy and strategy Zahed Ur Rahman at Delhi airport on Sunday afternoon...
Banhladesh prime minister’s adviser on policy and strategy affairs Dr Zahed Ur Rahman returned home on Monday after he was stopped at Delhi airport by the Indian immigration authorities on Sunday evening as his name was reportedly flagged during a security check.
INDIA’S continued push-in strategy along the Bangladesh border reflects a blatant violation of both domestic and international laws and a dangerous departure from the principles that should govern relations between neighbouring countries. Especially alarming is the forced transfer of the Rohingyas registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in...
FOR decades, Bangladesh’s relationship with India has often been described through the language of friendship, history, geography and interdependence. Yet every nation eventually encounters moments when friendship alone is insufficient and sovereignty demands a firmer vocabulary. The recent wave of push-ins by India’s Border Security Force appears to be one such moment...
An attempt by India’s Border Security Force to push 11 individuals into Bangladesh through the Darshana border in Chuadanga was foiled by the Border Guard Bangladesh on early Sunday...
The Border Guard Bangladesh foiled three more alleged push-in attempts by the Indian Border Security Force at separate border points in Chuadanga and Kurigram on Sunday.
An Indian national was injured in Border Guard Bangladesh firing at Borolekha border point in Moulvibazar district along India on Saturday evening as two suspected smugglers reportedly attacked BGB members with sharp weapons after entering into Bangladesh territory...
Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh foiled two more alleged push-in attempts by the Indian Border Security Force at border points in Lalmonirhat and Chapainawabganj between Friday night and early Saturday.
At least 123 Rohingyas who were registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India are still being sheltered in Bangladesh’s overcrowded Rohingya camp...
Five Indian air force personnel were killed when a military plane crashed while landing at a base in the country’s remote northeast on Saturday, the military said in a statement....
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh, with assistance from local residents, foiled an alleged attempt by India’s Border Security Force to push 15 people, including women and children, into Bangladesh through the Rokonpur border in Chapainawabganj’s Gomostapur upazila on early Saturday...
Prime minister’s foreign affairs adviser Humaiun Kobir on Saturday said Bangladesh wants cooperation and good working relations with India based on mutual respect despite the challenges that the relationship is facing...
The Border Guard Bangladesh director general urged the Indian Border Security Force DG to stop pushing people into Bangladesh, including Indian nationals and Rohingyas, to follow the...
Families of those killed in last year’s Air India plane crash gathered at the site on Friday to mark the anniversary of the disaster, still awaiting answers about its cause.
With a smartphone strapped to her head, Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra films herself slicing mangoes to train AI-powered robots to take on household jobs in the future.
India summoned a senior US diplomat on Friday for a second time in two days, after American strikes on three largely Indian-crewed merchant vessels off Oman killed three Indians.
Newly appointed Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi arrived Bangladesh on Friday through the Benapole-Petrapole land port, highlighting the...
Myanmar’s president Min Aung Hlaing will visit China next week, Beijing said on Friday.
The 57th four-day director general-level talks between the Border Guard Bangladesh and the Indian Border Security Force ended on Thursday in New Delhi without issuing a joint statement on the day.
Indian High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi has expressed optimism that both Bangladesh and India can emerge as the strongest democracy and one of the strongest world powers together, stressing that they will achieve the goal.
Three Indian crew members were reported missing after a vessel was attacked off Oman, India said Wednesday, before the US military announced it had fired on a tanker attempting to breach its blockade of Iran.
Tension mounted in Jamalpur border as Indian Border Security Force threatened to open fire after the Border Guard Bangladesh foiled their attempt to push a man into Bangladesh, leaving the man stranded in the no man’s land on Wednesday...
BANGLADESH’S frontiers with both India, spanning a stretch of 4,097 kilometres, and Myanmar, spanning a stretch of 271 kilometres, have become causes for serious concern. Whilst India has pushed in people into Bangladesh and has recently stepped up such efforts, especially in the north spanning Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions and in the south-west spanning Khulna...