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Unabated border killing

The death of Bangladeshis at the hands of India’s Border Security Force has become a grim reality, with barely any effective response that would stop the happening. The death hardly creates outrage outside a few rights groups. The Border Guard Bangladesh lodges protests. The issue comes up at bilateral meetings or dialogues. Yet, there is little sustained pressure or...

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Investigation if disappearance victims remain in India: Odhikar

The human rights organisation Odhikar on Tuesday demanded diplomatic negotiations between the Bangladesh government and Indian authorities to investigate whether additional victims of enforced disappearance remained in India as some of previously disappeared individuals were later found there...

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India pushes 67 more into Bangladesh

The Border Security Force of India pushed 67 more people into Bangladesh through the borders in Meherpur, Satkhira, and Kurigram districts on Tuesday...

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Banu Mushtaq’s polyglot India

GOOGLE Translate has become among the handiest apps for a good reason. It discards the cliché about the meaning getting lost in translation and helps strangers to connect in a naturally multilingual world...

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Monsoon lashes Mumbai as rains arrive early

Lashing rains swamped India’s financial capital Mumbai on Monday as the annual monsoon arrived some two weeks earlier than usual, according to weather forecasters.

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India’s unilateral push-in policy is condemnable

INDIA has unilaterally pushed several hundred people into Bangladesh through several border areas, which is unacceptable because it goes against accepted border management guidelines and diplomatic standards. India has continued pushing people into Bangladesh since May 7, when a war-like situation prevailed between India and Pakistan. Of the fresh push-in incidents...

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India pushes 113 more into Bangladesh

The Border Security Force of India pushed 113 more people into Bangladesh through the borders in Jhenaidah, Habiganj, Moulvibazar and Habiganj between Sunday afternoon and Monday.

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Mustafiz ends IPL gig on a high

Mustafizur Rahman surpassed all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan in terms of wickets in the Indian Premier League among the Bangladeshi’s when he claimed 3-33 in Delhi Capitals’ six-wicket win over Punjab Kings at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Saturday night.

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2 Bangladeshi youths injured in BSF firing

Two Bangladeshi youths were wounded as the Indian Border Security Force opened fire targeting them from 70-80 yards inside India opposite the Shyamnagar border along India under Kasba upazila in Brahmanbaria early Sunday...

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21 more pushed into Bangladesh

The Border Security Force of India on Saturday pushed 21 more people into Bangladesh through Kanaighat border in Sylhet without maintaining any legal process.

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India name Gill as new Test captain

India named top-order batsman Shubman Gill as the new Test captain, the cricket board said Saturday, as it announced the team for next month's all-important tour of England.

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Pakistan extends airspace ban on India

Pakistan’s aviation authority said on Friday it would extend a ban on Indian airlines using its airspace for another month, after the worst violence between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.

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India continues to push people into Bangladesh

India continued to push people into Bangladesh on Friday as the Border Security Force pushed four more people into Bangladesh through two bordering points in Dinajpur and Thakurgaon districts in the early hours of the day.

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Sifting through the rubble of Pakistan-India conflict

Two weeks after Pakistan and India’s most intense military clashes in decades, clearance teams along the border comb through fields for unexploded shells so residents can safely build back from the rubble of their homes.

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Bangladesh in the age of strategic hedging, social media warfare

IN SOUTH Asia, power rarely wears the mask of neutrality. It either comes cloaked in populist nationalism or camouflaged in a strategic alliance. Bangladesh, wedged between two troubling neighbours — India and Myanmar — is increasingly a frontline state, not just in terms of geographic vulnerability, but as a theatre for the contest between sovereignty and...