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Pledges are meant to be kept, not disregarded

THE killing of at least 11 Bangladeshi nationals in January-April by the Indian Border Security Force shows the sheer disregard of the Indian border forces for numerous pledges, bilateral agreements and international laws. According to the rights group Ain o Salish Kendra, five were killed in April alone, three in March, one in February, and two in January. In 2024, at least 30...

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India's BSF kills Bangladesh national in Kasba border

A Bangladeshi youth died while undergoing treatment at the Cumilla Medical College Hospital on Monday morning, hours after he received bullet injury in firing by the Indian Border Security Force along Madla border under Kasba upazila in Brahmanbaria district.

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BSF returns 2 Bangladeshis

The Indian Border Security Force early Saturday returned two Bangladeshi youths, whom they had detained at Patgram border in Lalmonirhat the previous evening...

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BSF picks up 2 Bangladesh nationals, returns 2 others

The Indian Border Security Force on Friday kidnapped two Bangladeshis from the Patgram border in Lalmonirhat after the Border Guard Bangladesh and the BSF had exchanged two detainees each through a flag meeting in the Biral bordering area in Dinajpur in the evening.

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Continued border killing further strains relations with India

Yet another death of a Bangladeshi at the hands of India’s Border Security Force shows a continued disregard of Indian guards for laws and border protocols. It also shows the nullity of the pledges that Indian authorities, including the Border Security Force, have made to end border killing and to never use lethal weapons in border management. On April 16, the Bangladeshi...

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BSF kills Bangladeshi youth

A Bangladeshi national was killed allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force at Madhya Singimari border under Hatibandha upazila in Lalmonirhat district on Wednesday...

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Repeated BSF attempts at border fencing vexatious

The attempt of India’s Border Security Force of March 17 at erecting barbed-wire fences along the border at Dahagram in Lalmonirhat is worrying as it violates the established border protocols. Indian border guards began erecting the fence with iron poles and fencing materials along the Sardar Para stretch of the border. The construction had been halted only after Bangladeshi border guards intervened and formally protested against the move. Border Guard Bangladesh officials..

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BSF hands over Bangladeshi’s body

The Indian Border Security Force handed over the body of a Bangladeshi youth who was killed in an attack by Khasia people in the neighbouring country when he illegally entered there through Kanaighat border early Friday...

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BSF returns 3 Bangladeshis

The Border Guard Bangladesh on Tuesday said that they brought back three Bangladeshis who were detained by India’s Border Security Force two days ago on penetration charges in the northwestern frontier...

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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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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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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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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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Bangladeshi man injured in BSF firing

A Bangladesh national was injured as the Indian Border Security Force opened fire at Patgram border in the district along India on Saturday night.

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JMBF condemns BSF killing of Bangladeshi youth

JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France issued a statement on Thursday condemning the killing of Bangladeshi youth Saidul Islam by Indian Border Security Force gunfire along the Bangladesh-India border at Chinakandi of Bishwambarpur upazila in Sunamganj...

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BGB-BSF tension erupts over border fence

Tension has erupted between the Border Guard Bangladesh and Border Security Force, the frontier guards of Bangladesh and India respectively, during the last two days at the Chouka border in Chapainawabganj, cantered around the construction of a barbed wire fence...

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Torture, killing of Bangladeshis on border should stop

THREE Bangladeshis allegedly having been tortured to death by India’s Border Security Force once again questions the commitment of Indian authorities to ending border killing. The police and the Border Guard Bangladesh found the bodies on three spots along the border with India near the River Ichhamati at Sharsha in Jashore on December 18. While the...