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Dhaka, Delhi agree border management without killing

Reaffirming the need for synergistic efforts to uphold human rights and curb violence on the border, Bangladesh and India on Thursday agreed to work together with utmost synergy by enhancing joint patrolling, vigilance, and intensifying public awareness programmes...

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DCs recommend increased BGB deployment along borders

Deputy Commissioners on Tuesday recommended deployment of Border Guard Bangladesh personnel in a greater number in the country’s frontier areas to bolster national security in addition to enhanced security measures for waterways....

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Chinese minister meets Myanmar scam centre workers

A Chinese government minister met more than 1,000 alleged scam centre workers on the Thailand-Myanmar border on Monday, Thai media said, as the three countries vowed to crack down on the illicit compounds...

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BGB-BSF DG level conference opens Monday amid border tension

The four-day director general level border conference between the Indian Border Security Force and the Border Guard Bangladesh is set to begin today in New Delhi amid tension along the border between the two neighbours over...

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BGB seizes Tk 162.52cr smuggled goods in Jan

The Border Guard Bangladesh seized arms, ammunition, drugs and other contraband items worth Tk 162.52 crore during anti-smuggling drives across the country, especially in bordering areas in January....

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SC tightens security amid vandalism threats

The Supreme Court authorities have tightened security in the court compound, deploying army, Border Guard Bangladesh and law enforcement members following intelligence reports that a group of lawyers might attempt to vandalise a mural of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman installed in the court’s inner garden...

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33 Rohingyas held for illegal trespassing

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh detained 33 Rohingyas from Alikadam in Bandarban district early Saturday while they were entering Bangladesh illegally...

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Bangladesh-India border: more than a line

THE implications of strained border relations extend beyond politics. Border communities bear the brunt of these tensions, with disrupted livelihoods and lost lives, writes Imran Hossain...

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Time for Delhi to stop playing border ploys, Dhaka to be bold

THE installation of electric poles and searchlights by India’s Border Security Force within 50 yards of the zero line in the Patgram border in Lalmonirhat appears to be an insidious effort as the Joint India-Bangladesh Guidelines for Border Authorities of the Two Countries, or Border Guidelines, signed in 1975, does not allow the construction of structures within...

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BGB-BSF talks in Feb 17-20

Border forces of Bangladesh and India are set to hold a director general-level meeting in New Delhi of India from February 17 to 20 amid tensions between the two neighbours over border fencing at several points by India’s Border Security Force...

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New migrant caravan en route to US border

A caravan of over 1,000 migrants left southern Mexico over the weekend for the US border, despite president Donald Trump deploying reinforcements to keep migrants out and cancelling all asylum applications.

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BSF issues 10-day ops alert along Bangladesh border

India’s Border Security Force has issued a 10-day ‘Ops Alert’, effective from January 22, and will exercise the alert along the India-Bangladesh border to tighten security during India’s 76th Republic Day celebrations.

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Villagers asked not to go to border

Border Guard Bangladesh 59th Battalion (Rohanpur) commander Lieutenant Colonel Golam Kibria on Thursday requested villagers not to rush to the border during any tensions, saying that the BGB was enough to face the Indian Border Security Force...

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Only farmers to be allowed within 150 yards of border

A sector commander-level meeting between the Border Guard Bangladesh and the Indian Border Security Force on Wednesday decided that no one except Bangladeshi and Indian farmers would be allowed to enter the 150-yard area from the border pillars...

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BGB sues BNP leaders for snatching buffaloes

Border Guard Bangladesh officials filed a case against twelve people, including five leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on charge of snatching two buffaloes from them on Saturday.

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Dhaka, Delhi need to effectively engage in easing border tension

THE clash between Bangladeshi and Indian villagers in the Shibganj border in Chapainawabganj over harvesting crops on no man’s land adds to the ongoing border tension resulted from India’s Border Security Force trying to erect fences on the zero line in violation of laws and agreements. Hundreds of villagers from both Bangladesh and India clashed...

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Tension erupts along border again

Indian villagers clashed with Bangladeshis over harvesting crops on the no man’s land along the Chowka border in Chapainawabganj Saturday morning leaving three people injured, causing fresh tension along the border.

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Bangladeshi found dead near border in Chuadanga

A 50-year-old man’s body was recovered from near the Indian border at Darshana upazila of Chuadanga on Wednesday amid growing tension between the two neighbouring countries over border fencing...

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