Category: BANGLADESH

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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday paid tributes to her father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his 47th death anniversary and the National Mourning Day.

Beijing has assured Dhaka of assistance for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in Bangladeshi camps after fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, with China constructing some 3,000 homes to accommodate returnees.

Drowning has become the second leading cause of death among children under the age of five in Bangladesh and the country reports over 14,000 such fatalities every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef said in a joint statement.

He also visited and interacted with the members of Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support and Operation Training, a premier institute of Bangladesh training peacekeepers for UN peace operations.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police of Bangladesh has seized the car of TikToker Bayezid Talha who had posted a video on Facebook allegedly after removing screw bolts from a railing of the Padma Bridge. Police are looking for Kaiser who was with him at the time of the incident.

"People on the south of Padma river have been neglected, but they won't be neglected anymore," she said, adding that a section of the Metro Rail in Dhaka and the tunnel under Karnaphuli river in Chittagong will be opened within this year.

India has started rebooting its connectivity vision as the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on movement is easing in South Asian region. The new Jalpaiguri-Dhaka Mitali Express was flagged on June 1 -- its maiden commercial run by the Railway Ministers of India and Bangladesh.

A massive blaze, followed by a powerful explosion, at a private container depot in Bangladesh's Chittagong district left at least 45 people, including nine firefighters, dead and injured some 500 others, authorities said on Sunday.

He said that at least 187 others, including seven policemen, suffered burn injuries in the devastating blaze that broke out at about 8 p.m. on Saturday at the private BM Container Depot Ltd, a Netherlands-Bangladesh joint venture company, in Sitakunda.

Addressing a rally last week in front of the National Press Club here, Abdul Kader Bhuiyan, Secretary of Volunteer Front, a wing of the BNP, and also the former President of its student wing Chhatradal, called for 'a repeat of 1975' against PM Sheikh Hasina's family.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen on Saturday said his country is in the process of extending 200 scholarships for the family members of the war veterans from India who fought for the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.

Addressing the "NADI (River) Conclave 2022" in Guwahati, Momen said that Bangladesh believes in the expansion and extension of the waterway movement between India and Bangladesh. "We need to develop a win-win river and water sharing regime."

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked the young generation to not associate themselves with militancy and corruption in order to keep the nation safe from such vices.

Many passengers jumped into the river in a desperate bid to save their lives as the fire raged for about three hours, said the bdnews24 report, adding that the ferry was was packed with passengers when the accident occurred.

Visiting Indian President Ram Nath Kovind said here that as a youth, he was inspired by the "moral courage" of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's Father of the Nation, to liberate the country from an oppressive regime 50 years ago.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister Dr A.K. Abdul Momen on Wednesday met Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, who is making his first visit to the country.

He said that the fisherman, Hafizur Rahman, who was rescued by crew members of another vessel at about 11 p.m. on Monday, has informed that there were 21 fishermen on board of the fishing vessel.

The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 on Wednesday sentenced former Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Abdul Momin Talukder Khoka to death for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

However, the women's compound team lost to Kazakhstan in the third-place contest. The Indian team featuring Jyothi Vennam, Priya Gurjar and Parneet Kaur went down 208-220 to Viktoriya Lyan, Diana Makarchuk and Roxana Yunussova of Kazakhstan.

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has temporarily suspended a judge who stirred controversy for saying that rape cases should not be registered if 72 hours have passed following the crime.

Bangladesh and India are working together eyeing two mega-events next month - Maitri Diwas and Victory Day of Bangladesh - on December 6 and December 16 respectively with the exchange of high-level visits, officials said.

Bangladesh's total goods export income in the first four months of the current fiscal year (July 2021-June 2022) surged about 23 per cent year on year to nearly $16 billion, thanks to a hefty rise in shipments of readymade garment items, an official said.

A writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, seeking directions for a judicial inquiry into the attacks on Hindu temples and houses across the country during Durga Puja, and may come up for hearing on Wednesday.

A court in Bangladesh's Chittagong court on Monday sent, to one day police custody, 16 accused in a case filed over vandalising a Durga Puja mandap and attacking police personnel.

An Indian armed forces contingent and bands of both army and navy will participate in "Bangladesh Victory Day Celebrations" in Dhaka on December 16, it was announced on Monday.