Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the Heathrow Airport and also at a Central London hotel as Bangladesh interim government's Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus began a four-day visit to the United Kingdom on Tuesday.
After nearly a decade of delay, the Centre has finally stepped in to fast-track the long-overdue fencing along the highly vulnerable stretches of the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal’s Nadia district.
Ahead of facing Australia in the upcoming ICC World Test Championship final, former South Africa batter AB de Villiers has urged the Proteas batters to respect all bowlers, regardless of the over in any phase of the play at the iconic Lord’s.
Instructions have already been sent from the state secretary of Nabanna to the district magistrates of the districts concerned which have international borders with Bangladesh, a senior official of the state government said.
Security and intelligence networks, both by Central and state agencies, are on high alert following intelligence inputs about plans of Bangladesh-based fundamentalist group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to set up modules in minority-dominated pockets in seven districts of West Bengal.
Bangladesh's Chief Adviser, Professor Muhammad Yunus's 11th foreign visit in the last eleven months will be his scheduled visit to the United Kingdom from June 9-13.
As diplomatic tensions simmer between India and Bangladesh following a political shift in Dhaka, a silent exodus has begun from the margins of India’s informal workforce.
Bangladesh's radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami is expected to have its party registration restored, including its traditional electoral symbol of scales (Daripalla), a member of the Election Commission (EC) confirmed on Wednesday.
Thirteen Bangladeshi nationals, believed to be associated with the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS), were detained by the Tripura Police late Tuesday night from a rented house in the Hapania area of Agartala.
A day after the body of a woman was found in a jute field near the India-Bangladesh border in Nadia’s Krishnaganj block, police arrested a mason in connection with the murder on Monday.
