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...
Political leaders and security experts have expressed concerns over the current surge in incidents of people being pushed into Bangladesh territory by the Indian border force without following formal procedures...
The Criminal Investigation Department of Bangladesh Police has launched a nationwide operation against online gambling and betting in accordance with the newly issued Cyber Security Ordinance, 2025.
The Border Security Force of India on Saturday pushed 21 more people into Bangladesh through Kanaighat border in Sylhet without maintaining any legal process.
Cultural activists on Saturday expressed concern over national security that arose from controversial moves by the interim government at a view-exchange meeting organised by the Ganatantrik Sanskritik Oikya...
Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Friday over its move to block the prestigious university from enrolling and hosting foreign students in a broadening dispute, a court filing showed.
Indian Border Security Force on Thursday pushed 105 more people into Bangladesh through different border points of six districts.
The interim government has promulgated the Cyber Security Ordinance, 2025 in a gazette, cancelling the previous Cyber Security Act, to identify, prevent, suppress, and subsequently to try the crimes committed in cyberspace for ensuring cyber security.
National security adviser Khalilur Rahman, also the chief adviser鈥檚 high representative on Rohingya affairs, on Wednesday said that he was a Bangladeshi national and did not have nationality of any other country...
THE tragic and brutal murder of Shahriar Alam Samya, a bright student from the Institute of Education and Research at Dhaka University, has struck a deep blow to the nation鈥檚 conscience. Once the torchbearer of progress and a hub for democratic movements, Dhaka University now finds itself grappling with an unsettling darkness that falls over its campus...
THE foreign affairs adviser鈥檚 statement of on April 27 to the media on humanitarian channel sparked debates and discussions across political, security and academic domains. The adviser said, 鈥楢ccording to the United Nations鈥� proposal, Bangladesh has agreed in principle to allow a humanitarian corridor to Rakhine. It will be a humanitarian passage. However, we have...
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...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed two separate cases against 43 people, including S Alam Group chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam, also former chairman of First Security Islami Bank, and the bank鈥檚 former...
New regulations threaten the security of the personal data of cryptocurrency users and may expose them to 鈥榩hysical danger鈥�, the platform at the centre of last week鈥檚 Paris kidnapping attempt has claimed...
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.
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...
Pragati Life Insurance PLC has been awarded ISO 27001:2022 certification in recognition of its excellence in information security management systems, said a press release...
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...
The government on Tuesday approved a draft of the Cyber Security Ordinance 2025, scrapping nine provisions that were remnants of the much talked about Digital Security Act and Cyber Security Act.
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.
National security adviser and high representative to the chief adviser Khalilur Rahman on Sunday said that the interim government had not discussed any humanitarian corridor to Rakhine state in Myanmar and no decision was made on the issue or no consensus was reached with any party...
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...
IN BANGLADESH, where rivers dominate the landscape and flood narratives shape public discourse, groundwater continues to flow silently beneath the surface 鈥� out of sight, out of mind. Yet this invisible resource is the true lifeline of our resilience to climate extremes, food insecurity, and water scarcity. It sustains more than 80 per cent of irrigation, provides 97 per...
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.
A Bangladeshi youth was injured after the Indian Border Security Force opened fire on him on Friday.
