Tag: Bangladesh

Colombo/Bhubaneswar: Team India under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma is all set to lock horns against its neighbors Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in the Nidahas Trophy which is all set to begin from today in at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. This tri-nation T20I series is going to be played to celebrate Sri Lanka’s 70th […]

Malkangiri: A 17-year-old tribal girl from Chitrakonda area of the district who had gone missing from Bengaluru has alleged that she is being subjected to torture after being trafficked to Bangladesh. As per reports, the girl has been identified as Laxmi Matam who after finishing her matriculation had underwent a training in sewing with the […]

Bhubaneswar/Vijayawada: As many as 406 Indian star tortoises were seized by the officials of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Tuesday evening at Vijayawada railway station in Andhra Pradesh while being smuggled to Bangladesh via Bhubaneswar. The DRI sleuths also apprehended two women who were transporting the endangered species in four bags by train. Both […]

Bhubaneswar: Cyclonic storm Mora formed over Bay of Bengal may intensify further. Odisha government on Monday has put four districts-Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Jajpur and Bhadrak on alert. After reviewing the developments and Met department’s forecast, the revenue and disaster management minister asked the collectors of these four districts to remain vigilant on the situation. Also Read: […]

Bhubanswar: In a boost to its annual cargo handling, the Paradip Port Trust (PPT) has begun coastal trade operation with Bangladesh. The port linkage improved the bilateral sea-route trade and commerce activities adding to the annual revenue of the major port. Paradip port trust has gone ahead with coastal trade with Bangladesh. Shipments of three […]

Bhubaneswar/Jatni: Asha Kiran chief Hochiminh Sastri and staff of the shelter home, located in Jatni, were arrested today for allegedly torturing a Bangladeshi minor boy. Besides, statements of the Bangladeshi minor boy torture victim will be recorded today at a court in Bhubaneswar. Notably, the Bangladeshi boy, aged 15, managed to escape from the shelter […]

Khurda/Puri: A Bangladeshi minor has brought harassment allegations against authorities of ‘Asha Kiran’, a NGO situated at Jatni in Khurda district. The minor boy gave such a statement, after being rescued in Puri, before the Puri Child Welfare Committee (CWC). However, authorities of ‘Asha Kiran’ have denied the allegation. The minor boy, a resident of […]

A Bangladeshi youth was detained here on Monday on charges of obtaining a passport fraudulently

Md Basir, the Bangladeshi national who was arrested by the Commissionerate Police on Wednesday for creating disturbance at the Regional Passport Office here, said he had paid Rs 3,000 to a middleman to cross the India-Bangladesh border

Dhaka: At least two persons were killed in clashes as a 60-hour countrywide strike called by opposition parties demanding a neutral caretaker government in poll-bound Bangladesh entered its second day today, raising the overall death toll in violence linked to political unrest to seven.

According to fire officials, the fire broke out at around 5pm on Thursday at the Shezan juice factory in Naryanganj's Rupganj.

Dhaka: The bullet-ridden bodies of two Rohingya men were found on Saturday near a refugee camp in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, the police said. The camp is home to some 700,000 people from the ethnic Muslim minority group who fled a military campaign against them in Myanmar over a year ago. The bodies were found by […]

Dhaka: Bangladesh is voting on Sunday in a general election, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking her third consecutive term in office. Security forces are on high alert, with around 600,000 security personnel deployed across the nation. More than 100 million people are eligible to vote, the BBC reported. Over 40,000 polling centres across the […]

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s leader of opposition and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will not be able to contest the upcoming general elections after she was sentenced to a total of 17 years in prison in two separate graft cases, Attorney-General Mahbubey Alam said on Tuesday. “Since she is now a convict, according to the existing law […]

Dhaka: The Bangladesh government and the World Bank on Sunday signed an agreement to improve the transparency and efficiency of its major cash transfer programmes. Mahmuda Begum, an Additional Secretary of Bangladesh’s Economic Relations Division, and Qimiao Fan, World Bank country Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal, signed the agreement worth $300 million here, reports […]