Dhaka, June 6 (IANS) Turkey and Bangladesh continue to deepen engagement with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday calling on Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in Dhaka to explore ways of expanding bilateral cooperation across several sectors. Sharing details of the meeting, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) posted on X: “Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan paid a courtesy call on BNP Chairman and Honorable Prime Minister Tarique Rahman at the Prime Minister’s Office i…
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Agartala, May 31 (IANS) Over 3,705 foreign nationals, including 3,463 Bangladeshis, have been arrested in Tripura since 2022 for illegally entering India, officials said on Sunday. A senior Home Department official stated that 965 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in 2022, followed by 1,014 in 2023; 947 in 2024; and 537 in 2025.Most of the foreign nationals have already been deported to their respective countries after completion of diplomatic and standard legal procedures, the official told I…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Seven Bangladeshis, who were caught trying to enter West Bengal through the Murshidabad border, were sent to a newly created ‘holding centre’ in Lalgola of Murshidabad district on Tuesday. Police arrested the seven Bangladeshis on Monday night. Within 24 hours, all seven were sent to the newly created ‘holding centre’.According to a senior police officer of Murshidabad Police District, a few people tried to enter India by crossing the border under the cover of dark…
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Bangladesh’s economy remained in a “fragile and uneven recovery phase” in Q1 CY2026 as persistent inflation, weak private investment, subdued industrial activity and external sector pressures continued to drag the country’s growth, a new report said citing, the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI).The industry body said in its quarterly review that “high living costs, cautious private sector sentiment and weak industrial expansion continued to weigh…
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Nearly 1.6 crore Bangladeshi citizens faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025, placing the country among the world’s top 10 worst‑affected nations, a new report has said, adding that conditions are unlikely to improve in 2026. The report from Daily Star cited Global Report on Food Crises by UN agencies as saying that those 10 worst-affected countries are unlikely to improve in 2026 due to conflicts, climate shocks, economic instability and supply‑chain di…
London/Dhaka, April 3 (IANS) As conditions worsen in Bangladesh’s overcrowded refugee camps, thousands of Rohingya refugees are grappling to survive following food aid cuts, heightening concerns over a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation, a report highlighted. According to a report in Britain’s Independent, the 1.2 million Rohingyas living in the miserable camps receive $12 per person each month – “an amount that the persecuted minority from Myanmar has long warned is barely sustain…
Kathmandu, March 13 (IANS) The government of Nepal has decided to stop providing visa-on-arrival facilities to Iranian citizens visiting the country amid the ongoing US–Iran conflict in West Asia, the country’s Department of Immigration said on Friday. “The move is aimed at preventing an influx of Iranian citizens into Nepal due to the ongoing conflict in the region,” Ram Chandra Tiwari, Director General of the department, told IANS. “We have been adopting similar policies for other nati…
Dhaka, March 7 (IANS) Bangladesh’s fire safety management in Rohingya refugee camps exposes a central paradox as humanitarian actors focus on emergency responses while the underlying causes of fire remain unaddressed. Plans for 50,000 semi-permanent, fire-resistant shelters, unveiled with fanfare, have gone unfunded after the early 2025 international aid cuts, a report has cited.“What stands out in the humanitarian record is not just this catastrophe but the sheer recurrence: between May 2018 …
Kolkata, Feb 22 (IANS) A day after the International Mother Language Day was celebrated with a lot of fanfare in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Sunday, said she was pained deeply that divisive forces were attempting to malign and target those who speak Bangla, labelling them as “ghuspaithiya (illegal infiltrators), subjecting them to humiliation and persecution”. At the same time, the Chief Minister claimed that she would continue with her relentless struggle and movement agai…
Brussels, Feb 5 (IANS) As Bangladesh heads towards the February 12 elections, the future appears increasingly uncertain, especially for minorities, who may confront a government that does not recognise them as equal citizens. Much of the blame falls on the Muhammad Yunus-led interim Government, which, instead of managing a peaceful transition, has damaged the economy, acted illegally against business groups, allowed attacks on minorities, deepened divisions and turned a blind eye to the Islamist…