Author: Saleh Noman
Myanmar’s Foreign Minister Than Sui has responded positively to the start of Rohingya repatriation from Bangladesh to his country. Myanmar’s foreign minister expressed this attitude on a sideline bilateral meeting with the foreign minister of Bangladesh Dr Hasan Mahmud of BIMSTEC conference in India’s capital New Delhi. The meeting was held on Thursday evening, the first day of the second retreat of foreign ministers of BIMSTEC countries. At this time Dr. Hasan reminded Myanmar’s foreign minister of their previous discussions and said that for a long time Myanmar has been saying that they are willing to take back the Rohingyas…
Foreign Ministers from the BIMSTEC Member States jointly met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday. He had “fruitful discussions” with the group of Ministers on further strengthening the regional cooperation in diverse areas including connectivity, energy, trade, health, agriculture, science, security and people to people exchanges. Modi stressed the role of BIMSTEC as an engine for economic and social growth. He reaffirmed India’s commitment to a peaceful, prosperous, resilient and safe BIMSTEC region and highlighted its significance to India’s Neighbourhood First and Look East Policies as well as in its SAGAR vision for Security and Growth…
Anti-quota protesters blocked the Shahbagh intersection again on Friday, demanding the cancellation of the government job quota system and reinstatement of a 2018 circular. Although anti-quota protesters announced countrywide rallies on campuses in response to yesterday’s police action on students in several locations outside Dhaka, students of Dhaka University and Dhaka College blocked Shahbagh intersection around 5:20 pm. Dhaka University students brought out a rally from the central library around 5:00 pm and gathered at Shahbagh intersection. Later, students of Dhaka College joined the protest. Earlier on Thursday night, Nahid Islam, a spokesman for the quota movement, declared countrywide rallies…
LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) – Britain’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer will oversee a parliament more ethnically diverse and more female than ever after securing a landslide victory in the election on Thursday that ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Black, Asian and ethnic minority lawmakers will represent around 13%, opens new tab of the House of Commons, up from 10% in 2019, when Britain last held a parliamentary election. It will be the largest-ever share of ethnic minority members of the lower house, according to an analysis by British Future, a think tank. In the 44 years since outgoing…
President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday sought Myanmar’s support and co-operation in strengthening regional ties as Bangladeshis is going to take over as chair of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation in September. He said while newly appointed Myanmar ambassador to Bangladesh Kao So Mo presented his credentials to the president. Welcoming the new ambassador of Myanmar, President Shahabuddin said that Myanmar was the closest neighbour of Bangladesh. He said that Bangladesh prioritised the development of relations with different countries of the world. The president said that although the government had given shelter to the forcibly displaced…
A Rohingya madrasa teacher was slaughtered by unidentified miscreants in Ukhiya Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar early this morning. The deceased, Noor Mohammad, 30, of D block of Rohingya Camp 4 extension in Ukhiya, was a teacher at a madrasa in the camp, police said. The killing took place in the hilly area of Rohingya Camp 4 extension around 5:00am, police source said. Shamim Hossain, OC of Ukhiya Police Station, said when Noor Mohammad was going to pray at a mosque, a group of Rohingya criminals attacked him with sharp weapons and cut his throat, and fled the scene. He…
PTI : A stampede at a religious congregation killed 116 people on Tuesday as devotees suffocated to their deaths and bodies piled atop each other in the worst such tragedy in recent years. The stampede took place as people headed home after a ‘satsang’ in the Phulrai of Uttar Prodesh of India conducted by a preacher called Bhole Baba. Twenty-seven bodies were brought to a hospital in neighboring Etah district. Senior Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar Singh said 23 of them were women. And 89 lay dead in Hathras itself. Aligarh Range Inspector General of Police Shalabh Mathur put the…
(Al Jazeera) Much of the southeast Caribbean is on alert as Beryl strengthens into the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, with forecasters warning of a “very dangerous” Category 3 storm. The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Beryl – churning in the Atlantic Ocean about 675km (420 miles) east of Barbados – at 12:30 GMT on Sunday was expected to bring “life-threatening winds and storm surge” when it reaches the Windward Islands early on Monday. Barbados, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada were all under hurricane warnings, while tropical storm warnings or watches were in…
A loan agreement was signed of 81.49 Corer dollars has been signed with Exim Bank of South Korea for the construction project of rail-cum-road bridge of Bangladesh Railway over Karnaphuli river at Kalurghat. The project titled ‘Construction of Railway cum Road Bridge across the River Karnaphuli’ at Kalurghat Point will be implement by Bangladesh Railway. Two loan agreements were signed between several Bangladeshi and South Korean agencies at the NEC conference room in Sherbangla Nagar of the capital Dhaka on Thursday. According to the project director, the total project cost for the construction of the bridge has been fixed at…
Foreign Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud called on China to increase its effective role in repatriating nearly 1.3 million Rohingya refugees to their home country Myanmar. Dr. Hasan Mahmud made this call to Asia’s biggest power China when Liu Jianchao, the Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China, who is visiting Bangladesh, went to meet the Foreign Minister at the Intercontinental Hotel in the capital on Monday. During the meeting Chinese Ambassador to Dhaka Yao Wen and senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were present at this time. On the evef Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s…