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.
Pakistan鈥檚 army said Sunday its soldiers killed 54 militants who had tried to enter the country by crossing its northwestern border with Afghanistan...
Members of the Bangladesh Army and Border Guard Bangladesh in separate drives arrested two persons with huge smuggled goods worth Taka 7.5 crore in the border areas of Gowainghat in Sylhet on Friday night...
A Bangladeshi youth was injured after the Indian Border Security Force opened fire on him on Friday.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh, in a drive, arrested two Indian citizens from Chuadanga鈥檚 Jibannagar border area...
Home adviser retired Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said that not all videos circulating on social media regarding the border situation were factual, but at the same time, nor were they entirely false...
The Border Security Force of India has stopped digging soil within 70 yards from the zero line on the Indian side near the Dahagram Border outpost under Patgram聽 upazila in Lalmonirhat following protests by the Border Guard Bangladesh.
Yet another death of a Bangladeshi at the hands of India鈥檚 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...
The Border Guard Bangladesh on Wednesday brought 55 Bangladeshi fishermen back from Myanmar鈥檚 rebel armed group Arakan Army鈥檚 custody...
A Bangladeshi national was killed allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force at Madhya Singimari border under Hatibandha upazila in Lalmonirhat district on Wednesday...
Medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders on Wednesday said Israel鈥檚 military operations and blockage of humanitarian aid had turned Gaza into a graveyard for Palestinians and those helping them...
The Border Guard Bangladesh has seized different smuggled goods worth over Tk 152.8 crore at different places in the country in March...
The Arakan Army, a rebel group in conflict-hit Myanmar, on Tuesday detained 11 Bangladeshi fishermen aboard two trawlers from the deep sea in the neighboring country鈥檚 territory, located opposite to Saint Martin鈥檚 Island in Cox鈥檚 Bazar district...
The Border Security Force of India shot an Indian citizen dead near the Gorokmondol frontier under Phulbari upazila in Kurigram Thursday morning.
New rules came into force Wednesday requiring European visitors to the UK to buy an online entry permit as the government revised longstanding regulations to boost border security...
The Border Guard Bangladesh on Saturday afternoon brought six Bangladeshi fishermen back from Myanmar鈥檚 Arakan Army鈥檚 custody.
Doctors Without Borders denounced on Monday the 鈥榚xtremely precarious鈥� situation of Palestinians displaced by the on-going Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank.
Border Guard Bangladesh organised an 鈥楢zan and Qirat Competition鈥� to encourage its soldiers to practice with correct pronunciation and melodious voice.