Dhaka: The mother of a 25-year-old Indian woman who was arrested in Dhaka for her alleged links with the banned militant outfit Neo-JMB (Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh) has demanded strong action against her daughter. Progya alias Ayesha Jannat Mohona alias Tasnim, hails from West Bengal’s Hooghly, and had purportedly converted to Islam. Progya was arrested by the […]
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Bangladesh Defence Secretary dies from COVID-19
Dhaka: Bangladesh Defence Secretary Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury on Monday died at a hospital here due to the novel coronavirus, the government has confirmed. Chowdhury died during treatment in Dhaka’s Combined Military Hospital (CMH) at 9.30 a.m. Monday, bdnews24 quoted Selina Haque, Additional Secretary to the Defence Ministry, as saying. He was admitted at CMH on […]
Bangladesh based Beximco Pharmaceuticals becomes 1st company in world to produce generic version of Remdesivir
Dhaka: Bangladesh-based Beximco Pharmaceuticals has become the world’s first company to produce a generic version of the antiviral drug remdesivir, originally developed by US-based Gilead Sciences, it was reported on Friday. Remdesivir was originally designed as an Ebola treatment, the BBC reported. It works by attacking an enzyme that a virus needs in order to replicate […]
22 illegal Bangladeshis nabbed in Maharashtra
Palghar (Maharashtra): In a post-midnight swoop, the Palghar Anti-Terrorist Cell and Anti Human Trafficking Unit nabbed 22 Bangladeshis living illegally, an official said here on Wednesday. Following a tip-off, teams of ATC and AHTU raided a temporary slum that had come up near Pardhiwadi, in Rajodi village of the picturesque coastal tourist spot of Arnala. […]
Bangladesh PM calls CAA ‘internal matter’ but ‘unnecessary’
New Delhi: Even as Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina believes that Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) is India’s “internal matter”, she has described the law, which aims to grant citizenship to persecuted religious minorities of the three neighboring Muslim countries, “unnecessary”. Hasina said this in an interview to the Gulf News at Abu Dhabi, where she […]
Yogi government sends refugees’ list to Centre, UP becomes 1st state to start implementing CAA
Lucknow: Of the 40,000 odd non-Muslim illegal immigrants living in Uttar Pradesh, 30,000 to 35,000 are living in Pilibhit district alone. According to a report prepared by the Yogi Adityanath government that has been sent to the Centre, these are mainly Hindu refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. These refugees are living here for over […]
Pakistan’s ISI funds training of 40 Rohingyas in Bangladesh
New Delhi: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is now training around 40 Rohingya Muslims with the help of terror outfit Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Bangladesh so that they can push them into India to carry out terror activities, intelligence agencies have warned Indian armed and border guarding forces on Thursday. “Pakistan is plotting a big conspiracy […]
300 Bangladeshis held crossing from India this year
New Delhi: More than 300 Bangladeshis have been apprehended this year while crossing from the Indian side to Bangladesh for lack of travel documents, Border Guards Bangladesh chief Major General Shafeenul Islam said on Sunday. He was addressing a media briefing after signing a Joint Record of Discussion with Border Security Force (BSF) at the 49th […]
Will take back if Bangladeshi citizens are living illegally in India: Dhaka official
Kolkata: Dhaka is ready to take back any “genuine” Bangladeshi citizen staying in India illegally, but New Delhi will have to furnish proof first, Gowher Rizvi, the international affairs advisor to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said here on Tuesday. Rizvi said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured Bangladesh that it shouldn’t worry on this […]
After Bangladesh FM, Shinzo Abe cancels India trip?
New Delhi: A day after Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen cancelled his India trip, media reports quoting Japan’s Jiji Press suggests Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is now considering cancelling his trip to India. The trip was scheduled to begin on Sunday. Abe was scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 15. The […]