New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Bangladesh is facing a major economic shock due to the disruption in oil and gas supplies through the Strait of Hormuz in the wake of the Iran war, as the country is heavily dependent on imports for its energy needs, according to an article in the local media. Years of relying on imported energy, along with slow progress toward renewable alternatives, have tied the economy to volatile global currents. When those currents turn turbulent, the exposure is immediate and un…
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Dhaka, April 8 (IANS) Bangladesh Awami League has strongly condemned the arrest of Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, former Parliament speaker, calling the case against her “baseless and fabricated”. Chaudhury, the country’s first female Speaker, was taken into custody by Bangladesh police from her residence in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi early Tuesday morning.Citing sources, Bangladeshi daily Dhaka Tribune reported that a case has been lodged against Chaudhury in connection with the fatal shooting of gol…
Dhaka, March 30 (IANS) At least six new patients with measles symptoms were admitted to Bangladesh’s Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH), bringing the total number of patients in the paediatric ward to 18 on Monday, local media reported. Muhammad Musa, head of the Paediatric Department at CMCH, said that all patients have been placed in isolation.Reports suggest that as measles spreads in Dhaka and several other districts, as many as 38 children have died of the infectious disease and i…
Dhaka, March 30 (IANS) An Awami League leader was critically wounded after being shot by unidentified assailants in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia district, in the latest incident of political violence in Bangladesh, according to local media reports.The victim was identified as 52-year-old Shafiqul Islam Azam, a former general secretary of Awami League in Amla Union of Mirpur. The incident occurred on Sunday evening at Sadarpur Bazar in Amla Union.According to police, Shafiqul was at his business est…
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman chose the country’s National Day for his official car to mark the first time to bear the national flag since he assumed office as head of the government, according to reports from Dhaka. The image, while on way to pay homage to the Liberation War martyrs at the National Memorial in Savar on Thursday morning, should serve as a lesson for those who had declared a subtle intent to rewrite the country’s history and legacy.Rahman als…
Dhaka, March 26 (IANS) At least eighteen bodies were retrieved after a bus carrying dozens of passengers plunged into the Padma River from a pontoon at a terminal in Bangladesh’s Rajbari district, some 125 km south of Dhaka. The accident occurred at around 5:15 p.m. local time on Wednesday when the Dhaka-bound passenger bus lost control, overturned, and sank to an estimated depth of 80 feet, according to the Fire Service.Sultana Akhtar, Rajbari’s deputy commissioner and district magistrate, told…
Dhaka, March 23 (IANS) Bangladesh continues to grapple with persistent crime despite over 8,000 arrests in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur and Adabor areas during the eighteen-month tenure of the previous Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, according to a local media report. In the same period, more than 2,000 cases were registered in the two police stations for offences including extortion and robbery — widely seen as a collapse in the law enforcement measures under Yunus.Following the political upheav…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) ‘Dhurandhar’ is not the kind of film you watch and move on from. It lingers. It provokes. And more importantly, it says something which a majority of Indians have felt for years but were rarely encouraged to articulate openly.At its core, the film taps into a sentiment that has existed for decades — that Pakistan’s continued use of terrorism as state policy cannot be met with half-measures, diplomatic niceties, or intellectual hedging. The urge to see its institutions…
Dhaka, March 22 (IANS) At least 12 people were killed and 20 others injured early Sunday when a mail train ploughed into a bus at the Padua Bazar level crossing in Comilla, in one of the deadliest rail-road collisions in recent times, according to The Dhaka Tribune.The tragedy unfolded around 3:00 a.m. on the busy Dhaka–Chittagong route when the Chittagong-bound train struck the Mamun Special bus as it attempted to cross the railway at the level crossing.The impact was so brutal that the bus…
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The recent arrest of an alleged trainer in military warfare in India and last year’s espionage-linked death in Bangladesh point to a larger vulnerability and competing intelligence agendas in the region, despite being separate incidents, tied coincidentally only by the identical citizenship of the perpetrators. India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) apprehended Matthew Aaron VanDyke, an American citizen, alongside six Ukrainian nationals on March 13 at airport…