The Ninth South Asia Economic Summit will be held in Dhaka next month with the theme ‘Reimagining South Asia in 2030’. Private think-thank Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) will organize the regional event on Oct 15-16. The venue of the summit is yet to be disclosed. A four-member CPD delegation, led by its Chairman Rehman […]
To defeat ISIS, South Asian countries must look beyond their selfish and myopic interests The so-called Islamic State (IS) in appeared around 2014. Since then, policymakers and the strategic community in South Asia remain divided on whether the terrorist group poses a threat to the region or not. These differences can be attributed to two […]
Bangladesh: People from all sections of Bangladeshi society should denounce the use of violence in the name of religion, said Bishop Sebastian Tudu of Dinajpur in a recent seminar. Bangladeshi police organized the seminar, which drew some 8,000 people including leaders from Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian communities. Bangladesh is a multi-religious and multi-cultural nation, […]
GUWAHATI: The new government in Assam wants 250 ‘illegal’ Bangladeshi nationals deported immediately. Miffed at the slow deportation process, the State Government has written to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) asking the latter to streamline and fast-forward the deportation process on a priority basis. The MHA, as part of the process, is expected to […]
DHAKA : A US national of Bangladesh origin was among nine suspected Islamist extremists killed in a massive gunfight in Dhaka, police said Wednesday. But Bangladesh continues to deny that ISIS has radicalized its youth. Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Masudur Rahman said that Shahzad Rouf was one of nine young men who were killed during […]
Bangladesh has begun to screen Friday sermons in mosques, in an effort to control the proliferation of extremist ideas in the country. Bangladesh has also blocked ‘Peace TV’, the channel run by Zakir Naik, a preacher who ‘inspired’ extremist Islam radicals. The decision was taken by senior government officials, who have also decided to implement […]
NEW DELHI An Indian teenager was among 20 foreigners who were killed after being taken hostage by a group of attackers at an upmarket cafe in Bangladesh capital Dhaka, a government minister said Saturday Tarushi Jain, 19, was caught up in the horrific 11-hour siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery, a Western-style cafe popular with […]
People in the Indian subcontinent often like to sing of their ‘glorious past’. One of the legends one hears is about the legendary muslin cloth produced in India, so ‘thin that an entire muslin saree could pass through a finger-ring’. Really? Why isn’t this marvellous cotton cloth seen today? Muslin, once weighed against gold in the […]
DHAKA (Bangladesh) Unidentified men hacked to death a Christian grocer in Bangladesh’s north-west on Sunday (June 5), say international media reports. The numbers of attacks on religious minorities and secular activists by Islamist militants are growing. “Sunil Gomes was hacked to death at his grocery store just near a church at Bonpara village,” Shafiqul Islam, […]
After harassing Sri Lanka, reports say that Cyclone Roanu battered the coast of southern Bangladesh and Chittagong on Saturday, forcing half a million people to flee their homes and leaving 20 people dead in floods and rain-triggered landslides. Winds were as strong as 88 kilometres per hour. The cyclone damaged hundreds of shanties in two […]
Weeks after suspected Islamist militants hacked Bangladesh’s most prominent gay rights activist to death in his apartment along with an associate, another friend received a chilling message that he was next in line. “Say your prayers, confess to God for your sins. Eat or drink whatever you wish to, nobody can save you,” read the […]
In Bangladesh, it’s called the battle of the Begums. The struggle between the nation’s two women political leaders for the mastery of Bangladesh becomes sharper with the Awami League government of Sheikh Hasina according its approval to the filing of sedition charges against the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader, Begum Khaleda. The political situation […]
