At least five people were shot dead and dozens injured when Bangladesh police opened fire Saturday on demonstrating workers at the construction site of a Chinese-financed power plant, officials said. Police started shooting after workers became violent, said Saiduzzman Chowdhury, government administrator in the southern coastal town of Banshkhali. They were protesting over unpaid wages, … Read more
Spearheading his party’s campaign in the ongoing polls to elect five assemblies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed 23 rallies so far, 10 of them across four states over the last three days, including Saturday. With the BJP pulling out all the stops to oust Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from government in West Bengal and … Read more
The United Nations (UN) has been urged by prominent socio-religious organisations of Bangladesh to play a stronger role in stopping the persecution of Uyghur Muslims in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. This was suggested at a press conference at the Chattogram Press Club on Friday. Alem Muktijoddha Projanma Sangsad organized the press meet where a … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Friday jointly inaugurated the “Bangabandhu-Bapu Museum” at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre here. The museum has a digital exhibition on India’s Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi and Bangladesh‘s Father of the Nation ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The exhibition is dedicated to the lives … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Friday on a two-day visit to Bangladesh during which he will attend the celebrations of the golden jubilee of the country’s independence, the birth centenary of ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and hold talks with his counterpart Sheikh Hasina. Modi is visiting Bangladesh on his first trip to a … Read more
From a public address at Dhaka‘s parade ground as the Chief guest on the occasion of Bangladesh‘s 50 years of independence and diplomatic ties with India, new announcements bolstering trade, railway connectivity, border development and start-ups to a visit to Mujibur Rahman’s native village, PM Narendra Modi has a packed schedule on Friday-Saturday on his … Read more
A Bangladeshi court on Tuesday handed down death sentence to 14 Islamist militants for attempting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her southwestern constituency in 2000. “The verdict will be executed by a firing squad to set an example, unless the law barred it,” Judge Abu Zafar Md Kamruzzaman of Dhaka’s Speedy Trial tribunal-1 … Read more
Bangladesh has ruled out any security threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s two-day visit to the country later this week and said “few” left wing and hardline Islamist groups are against his trip but there is “nothing to worry” about them. Prime Minister Modi will visit Bangladesh from March 26 to 27 to attend the … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Bangladesh later this month, in his first foreign trip since the beginning of the pandemic. He is also expected to visit Europe in May. The visit to Dhaka has huge significance as it will help consolidate burgeoning partnership with Bangladesh which in many ways is India’s most important … Read more
Guwahati: As Assam gears up for the assembly polls, the ruling BJP is harping on a three-pronged strategy to retain its Eastern bastion –– creating a distinction among the Muslim population by asking only those from Assam to vote for them while disowning Muslims from Bangladesh; leveraging the political dividends from PM Modi, Shah and … Read more