The death of Bangladeshis at the hands of India鈥檚 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...
The Border Security Force of India pushed 67 more people into Bangladesh through the borders in Meherpur, Satkhira, and Kurigram districts on Tuesday...
A high-level Chinese delegation led by Liu Jie, deputy director of the Lancang-Mekong Sub-regional Economic and Trade Development Centre of the Department of Commerce in Yunnan province, held a meeting on Monday with Anwar Hossain, vice-chairman of the Export Promotion Bureau of Bangladesh...
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...
The Border Security Force of India on Saturday pushed 21 more people into Bangladesh through Kanaighat border in Sylhet without maintaining any legal process.
A tense situation prevailed at the National Board of Revenue on Saturday amid the presence of a huge number of police, Border Guard Bangladesh and army personnel at the revenue board鈥檚 premises since the morning of the day...
Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh on Thursday detained two people for allegedly impersonating senior military officers and defrauding cattle traders by promising to facilitate cross-border cattle smuggling...
Indian Border Security Force on Thursday pushed 105 more people into Bangladesh through different border points of six districts.
DESPITE deep ties between Bangladesh and India in the geopolitical landscape of South Asia, India鈥檚 approach to border management has often been aggressive, escalating tensions with its neighbours. Recently, a complex diplomatic conflict has emerged over 鈥榩ush-in鈥� incidents along the India-Bangladesh border, where Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) have been...
At least two members of the Border Guard Bangladesh were injured in an attack allegedly by suspected drug dealers at the Nazir Gomani border under Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat early Sunday...
India鈥檚 Border Security Force pushed 28 more people into Bangladesh through borders in Thakurgaon and Panchagarh district on Saturday as the neighbouring country continued push-in of people.
The Border Security Force of India on Thursday pushed 30 more people into Bangladesh through separate bordering points of Kulaura and Borolekha upazilas in Moulvibazar as pushing people into Bangladesh from India continues without following any legal process.
A member of the Border Guard Bangladesh was found hanging from a ceiling fan at his rented house in the Burigoalini area of Shyamnagar, near the Nildumur BGB camp, in Satkhira on Wednesday...
The Border Security Force of India is continuing attempts to push people into Bangladesh territory through different bordering areas amid heightened security measures.
BANGLADESHIS coming to be shot, abducted or tortured in the frontiers has remained a prickly issue with India. India鈥檚 Border Security Force, as Human Rights Support Society said in a statement on March 10, has killed 305 Bangladeshis and wounded 282 more in the border in a decade. The statement says that Indian guards killed 26 Bangladeshis and wounded 25 in...
INDIA鈥橲 Border Security Force continuing to push people into Bangladesh is another instance of its blatant disregard for international laws and border protocols and bilateral agreements. On May 10 and 11, Indian border guards pushed at least 92 people into Bangladesh through border points in Satkhira and Chuadanga. Indian border guards pushed 78 people into...
Families separated by the US-Mexico border staged a demonstration Saturday on both sides of the boundary, where US president Donald Trump鈥檚 aggressive anti-migrant policies forced the cancellation of a Mother鈥檚 Day reunion event.
ONE of the most tragic and unresolved human rights crises in South Asia is the deadly border killings by the Indian border forces. India鈥檚 Border Security Force kills Bangladeshi civilians despite the many bilateral agreements and repeated diplomatic assurances...
India on Thursday continued to push people into Bangladesh for the second consecutive day while the Border Guard Bangladesh had beefed up security in vulnerable areas along Indian borders.
THE relationship between India and Pakistan has been shaped by decades of historical grievances, territorial disputes and intermittent armed clashes. However, India鈥檚 recent cross-border strikes inside Pakistan 鈥� allegedly killing 26 civilians, including women and children 鈥� have jolted an already fragile region and raised urgent questions about legality, leadership, and...
INDIA鈥橲 Border Security Force having pushed in at least 123 people into Bangladesh through a few border points in Khagrachari and Kurigram on May 7 and continued efforts the next day are odious. The efforts at hand combined with events of Indian guards at almost regular intervals of killing Bangladeshis in the frontiers, abducting Bangladeshis into the Indian territory and...
National security adviser and chief adviser鈥檚 high representative on Rohingya issue and priority matters Khalilur Rahman on Tuesday said that Bangladesh would keep in touch with anyone required for the country鈥檚 interest, no matter if anyone took it otherwise...
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...
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.
Indian Border Security Force keeps killing Bangladeshis in border areas with the number of the killed increasing in recent months despite repeated promises by India to bring down the killings to zero...
The Indian Border Security Force early Saturday returned two Bangladeshi youths, whom they had detained at Patgram border in Lalmonirhat the previous evening...
Doctors Without Borders said one of its hospitals in South Sudan had been bombed early on Saturday, with local officials reporting at least four dead in the area...
BANGLADESH stepping up 16 notches in the World Press Freedom Index 2025, prepared by Reporters Without Borders, is comforting, but the country has ways to go and issues to address to further improve on press freedom. The index, made public on May 2, ranks Bangladesh the 149th among 180 countries. Bangladesh ranked the 165th in 2024, the 163rd in 2023 and the...
A Bangladeshi youth sustained bullet injuries after Indian Border Security Force allegedly opened fire along the Kusumpur border in Maheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah on Thursday night.
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.