Bangladesh
Bangladesh, India aim to resolve border issues
India’s home minister P. Chidambaram on Saturday said he had “very constructive talks” with his Bangladeshi counterpart to resolve border issues.
31 children die in Bangladesh road crash
At least 31 children died in Bangladesh on Monday when a truck carrying schoolboys back from watching a football match crashed and flipped over into a water-filled ditch.
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Violent clashes at Bangladesh religious protests
Police in Bangladesh fired rubber bullets and tear gas on Sunday at thousands of Islamic activists demonstrating for the restoration of a religious pledge to the nation's constitution.
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India's neighbours in ‘most failed states’ list of US magazine
India's neighbours – Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka – are featured in the list of the ‘most failed states’, according to the annual ranking prepared by the Foreign Policy magazine.
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Army Chief to embark on five-day Bangladesh visit
Forty years after he participated in the 1971 India-Pakistan war to liberate Bangladesh, Indian Army chief General V.K. Singh will embark on a five-day visit to Dhaka on Sunday, when he will gift three antique 3.7 Howitzers to the neighbouring country’s Army as mementoes.
We have no indigenous population, Bangladesh tells UN
Bangladesh has told a UN forum that it has “no indigenous population”. Dhaka has also objected to a study on the status of implementation of an accord the government signed in 1997 with the Buddhist tribals of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
Bangladesh committed to fight terrorism
Expressing its commitment to fight the scourge of terrorism, Bangladesh on Saturday assured India that its territory will not be allowed to be used by elements working against the interests of any country.
Bangladesh jails 11 for gang rape
A court in Northwestern Bangladesh sentenced 11 people to life in prison on Wednesday for gang-raping a teenage girl during a spate of violence following 2001 elections, the police said.
Hasina to meet panel on Islamic references in Constitution
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will on Wednesday appear before a parliamentary committee examining whether to retain or remove Islamic religious references in the country's constitution.
23 dead, scores missing in Bangladesh boat sinking
At least 23 people, mostly women and children, drowned and scores of others were missing after a passenger river ferry sank in eastern Bangladesh early on Thursday, police said.
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