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UK backs fair, inclusive election in Bangladesh

British high commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke on Monday said that the United Kingdom was supportive of the consensus building and reform process to help create a condition for ‘free, fair and inclusive’ elections in Bangladesh...

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Nothing but repatriation can end Rohingya sufferings

THE Rohingya influx into Bangladesh keeps taking place slowly as they flee violence and a fearful situation in their native place of Rakhine, which is reported for long to have been caught in conflicts. The Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner says that 53,948 Rohingyas were given registration by the office at hand and the Office of the...

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JULY UPRISING ABUSES: UN rights chief calls for justice

Presenting the fact-finding report in Geneva in Switzerland on human rights violations and abuses related to the protests of the July-August student-led mass uprising in Bangladesh, United Nations’ high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Wednesday said that accountability was absolutely the key...

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UNHCR urges global focus on Rohingya crisis

Visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi hoped that the international community would renew its focus to resolve the Rohingya crisis...

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CALL FOR UN ENGAGEMENT: Investigating violence against minoritised communities

WHEN the chief advisor professor Muhammad Yunus extended an official invitation to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent fact-finding into human rights violations committed during the July mass uprising, it was highly commended by rights organisations and civil society alike, except for those sections of...

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Only trial of July-Aug crimes can make reparations

THE findings of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the student protests and consequent mass uprising in July–August 2024 that it was the prime minister Sheikh Hasina, deposed on August 5 that year, ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies point to heinous crimes. The report, released in Geneva on February 12, also...

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Indian envoy for enhanced trade with Bangladesh

Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has hoped that trade connectivity and economic engagement between Bangladesh and India would continue to bring people and businesses of the two countries closer together...

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India-Bangladesh relationship focus on benefit of people: Verma

Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma has said that Delhi would continue to seek a stable, positive, constructive, forward-looking and mutually beneficial relationship with Dhaka in which people were the main stakeholders...

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Protest march towards Agartala today

Different organisations on Tuesday held rallies and human chains in Bangladesh protesting at the attack on the Bangladesh assistant high commission in India’s Agartala on December 2 and Indian aggression as well...

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Countrywide protests on

Different political parties, student bodies and lawyer organisations protested at the attack on the Bangladesh assistant high commission in India’s Agartala for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in the country...

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Delhi’s apology for Bangladesh mission breach not enough

A GROUP of people banded under Hindu Sangharsh Samiti, an affiliate of Vishwa Hindu Parishad, having broken into Bangladesh’s assistant high commission in Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura, on December 2 is unacceptable. The protesters — who marched demanding an early release of the Bangladeshi Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, reportedly an expelled member of the International Society for...

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Hope for Rohingya rights and dignity

THE persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar, especially in Rakhine State, has caused multiple rounds of forced migration into Bangladesh. This trend is rooted in long-standing exclusionary policies and military actions targeting the Rohingyas because of their ethnicity and religious differences, depriving and expelling them of their homeland...

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India seeks stable relationship with Bangladesh: high commissioner

The Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranay Verma, said India would continue to seek a ‘stable, positive and constructive’ relationship with Bangladesh built upon their interdependencies, in which people of both countries remain the main stakeholders.

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Dhaka should take up Mynamar issues with world forum

THE firing of gunshots from inside Myanmar into Bangladesh at Teknaf is worrying. Officials say that three bullets fired from Myanmar hit a window glass of the land port office, a truck and a tree about 1:30pm on September 18 forced a suspension of activities at the Teknaf land port about half an hour after as people, who became panicked at the happening...

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Malaysian envoy for broadening ties with Bangladesh

Malaysian high commissioner to Bangladesh Haznah Md Hashim on Sunday laid emphasis on strengthening relations between Bangladesh and Malaysia, exploring potential areas for mutual benefits...

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Bangladesh protesters name Dhaka street after Felani

A group of protesters, organised by a private organisation, on Friday installed a plaque naming a street near the Indian high commission in Dhaka after Felani Khatun, who was shot dead by India’s Border Security Force along the Bangladesh border in 2011.

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