Bangladesh hails UN ruling in Myanmar border dispute
By staff reporter Bangladesh’s foreign minister said a U.N. tribunal had ruled in her country’s favour on Wednesday in a complex maritime border dispute with Myanmar and that the verdict opened the way for offshore oil and gas exploration in the Bay of Bengal. “We are happy, we are absolutely delighted,” Dipu Moni said [...]
Indian Leading newspaper ‘The Hindu’ has asked India to make an “unreserved apology” to Bangladesh for Border Security Force’s brutal torture of a Bangladeshi cattle trader shown in a recent video. Brutality on the border New Delhi needs to make an unreserved apology to Bangladesh for the brutal conduct of its Border Security Force personnel [...]
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January 7th, 2012 will be a first anniversary of a poor little girl who was brutally killed and hanged alive (and later dead of course) on fence by India’s Butchers Special Force (BSF). Felani was not a smuggler. Nor was she an armed terrorist. She was merely a 15-year-old girl returning home, full of dreams [...]
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Delhi – The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) will ask its Bangladesh counterparts at a meeting next week to dismantle hideouts set up by militants from India’s northeastern the neighbouring country, officials said in Agartala on Thursday. A meeting between senior officials of BSF and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will be held in Meghalaya capital [...]
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by Milan Mikhail The 17th summit of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) will start from tomorrow in Maldives. The summit will be attended by heads of states and governments of its eight member countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal,Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and representatives of Observer States. The SAARC nations have been more [...]
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Source: The New York Times MADHYA MASALDANGA, India — Mohammed Idris Ali’s watery rice paddies shimmer in the monsoon breeze just like his neighbors’. His tepee-shaped stacks of jute, ready to be soaked, stripped and then turned into rope, stand as tall as the ones across the rutted footpath. But the house across the footpath [...]
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