Canadian high commission delegation visits AIUB
A delegation from the high commission of Canada to Bangladesh has recently visited the American International University-Bangladesh in Dhaka...
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Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leaders meet with British envoy
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Shafiqur Rahman and senior leaders on Wednesday met with British high commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke and discussed issues of mutual interest, including the upcoming national election...
UN rights chief says Nepal violence appalling, urges dialogue
The UN rights chief voiced alarm Tuesday at escalating violence in Nepal, where youth protesters set fire to parliament after a brutal police crackdown that left at least 19 dead.
Pakistan envoy calls on adviser Farooki
Newly-appointed High Commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh Imran Haider paid a courtesy call on cultural affairs adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki at latter鈥檚 office in Dhaka Tuesday afternoon...
Time for Dhaka to boldly take up India鈥檚 border ploys with Delhi
DELHI鈥橲 border ploys, which have been evident in the murder of Bangladeshis at the hand of India鈥檚 Border Security Force that have continued apace for years, appear to be taking an added dimension. Whilst a series of events of erecting barbed-wire and electric fences along the frontiers began with the direct involvement of Indian border guards in the final days of December...
UK, Bangladesh working to boost trade: Sarah Cooke
British high commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke on Monday said that the United Kingdom was working with Bangladesh to unlock new trade opportunities, support business-friendly reforms and connect UK buyers with high-quality Bangladeshi products...
Govt nods for UN rights office
The interim government on Thursday approved a proposal to establish an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bangladesh -- initially for three years...
British envoy meets ICCB leaders
The British high commissioner to Bangladesh Sarah Cooke on Tuesday held a meeting with the president of the International Chamber of Commerce Bangladesh Mahbubur Rahman and members of the ICCB executive board at the ICCB secretariat in the city...
UNHCR reports 1st voluntary Rohingya return since 2017
At least 82 Rohingyas reportedly returned spontaneously to Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine state last week, the first known instance of voluntary repatriation since the mass exodus of 2017, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
UNHCR urges Bangladesh to shelter1.13 lakh more Rohingyas
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has recently pressed the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner to ensure accommodation of 1.13 lakh more Rohingyas amid uncertainty of repatriation...
Return of money embezzled by Mosaic Brands, trial in int鈥檒 court demanded
Bangladesh Garment Sramik Samhati along with labour representatives of 22 factories, affected in an alleged financial fraud by an Australian brand, on Saturday held a demonstration and submitted a memorandum to the Australian High Commission in Dhaka...
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 鈥榝ree, fair and inclusive鈥� elections in Bangladesh...
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...
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鈥� high commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T眉rk, on Wednesday said that accountability was absolutely the key...
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...
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...
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鈥揂ugust 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...
Bangladesh's ousted PM Hasina ordered protesters鈥� killing, body hiding: UN
The ousted prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, herself ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies to quell the student-led protests in July 2024 in Bangladesh, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
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...
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...
Malaysia extends repatriation programme for undocumented Bangladeshis
The Bangladesh high commission in Malaysia has announced an extension of the migrant repatriation programme for undocumented Bangladeshi nationals, allowing them to return home under revised provisions set by the Malaysian government...
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鈥檚 Agartala on December 2 and Indian aggression as well...
Countrywide protests on
Different political parties, student bodies and lawyer organisations protested at the attack on the Bangladesh assistant high commission in India鈥檚 Agartala for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in the country...
Protests erupt across Bangladesh after mission attack in India's Agartala
Protests over the attack on Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Agartala of India continued for the second consecutive day on Tuesday in Dhaka as elsewhere in the country.
Delhi鈥檚 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鈥檚 assistant high commission in Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura, on December 2 is unacceptable. The protesters 鈥� who marched demanding an early release of the Bangladeshi Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, reportedly an expelled member of the International Society for...
Bangladesh shuts Agartala mission in India after attack
The Bangladesh mission at Agartala in India was closed on security ground on Tuesday a day after it came under attack by a group of Indian protesters during a violent demonstration.
4 policemen suspended, 7 arrested over attack on Bangladesh mission in Agartala
Indian authorities have arrested seven people and suspended four police officers for their alleged involvement in the attack on Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in Agartala, reports hindustantimes.com.
Bangladesh condemns attack on mission in Agartala, says police did not prevent vandalism
Dhaka has deeply resented the violent demonstration and attack by a large group of protesters of the Hindu Sangharsh Samity on Monday afternoon on the premises of the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh in Agartala of India.
Bangladesh mission in India's Agartala attacked, vandalised
A group of protesters demonstrating near the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission broke through the police cordon and barged into the office premises in Agartala of India.
India closely monitoring situation of minorities in Bangladesh: Jaishankar
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said the High Commission of India in Dhaka continues to monitor the situation related to the minorities in Bangladesh closely.
