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Khaleda tried to kill me Bangladeshi PM Hasina
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday alleged that Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia had tried to hang on to power by killing her through the August 21 grenade attack in 2004. The opposition leader had tried to remain in power by killing me," she said in her opening speech at a views-exchange meeting with the grassroots leaders of Awami League from Netrakona. She said the ...
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Cyclone Mahasen leaves 15 dead several thousand houses damaged in Bangladesh
A prolonged and slow-paced Cyclone Mahasen advanced toward Bangladesh coastline claiming 15 lives, injuring scores and rendering many homeless on Thursday. Over a million people along the coastline from Patuakhali to Cox's Bazar were evacuated. Thousands of people took refuge in cyclone shelters, on high ground and in administrative buildings. Seaports and airports remained shut. But ...
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Judicial probe into attacks on Buddhists in Bangladesh reports intelligence failure
The failure of the local administration and intelligence and law enforcement agencies was to blame for the attacks on the Buddhist community in Bangladesh in September last year, says a judicial probe report. Sources in the Bangladesh High Court (HC) said the probe had found that intelligence failure led to the administration's inaction as violence flared. The report, however, has not yet ...
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Cyclone Mahasen Bangladeshi district Patuakhali in a mess
Distressed at the sight of his twisted house in the cyclone ravaged Patuakhali, a coastal district in southwestern Bangladesh, Amal Chandra Mitra had a vacant look. Already burdened with old age, the sexagenarian was trying in vain to figure out whether he would ever be able to rebuild the home ravaged by cyclone Mahasen. Within moments, his face turned pale with perhaps a big question looming ...
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Bangladesh clean-up after killer cyclone
Bangladesh has begun cleaning up after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes along its coast while breathing a sigh of relief that the damage was not much worse.Fourteen people are so far known to have died in Bangladesh after Cyclone Mahasen, which has since been downgraded to a tropical depression, lashed southern coastal regions with winds of up to 100 kilometres per hour.Bangladeshi ...
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Study says India Jordan Bangladesh Hong Kong worlds most racially intolerant
INDIA, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong are among the the most racist countries in the world - but Britain is among the most accepting of different races, a survey has found. The World Values Survey asked people in more than 80 countries what type of people they did NOT want as neighbours. More than 40 per cent of those quizzed in India, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong said they didn't ...
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Bangladesh Myanmar relieved as cyclone fizzles
A Bangladeshi infant rests as a woman looks out a window of a cyclone shelter center before Cyclone Mahasen made landfall in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 16, 2013. The cyclone weakened Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm with at least 18 deaths reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, but officials had prepared for a far greater storm. Bangladesh evacuated 1 million people ...
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Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh, the politics of their situation is more important than the human impact
Bangladesh and Myanmar have been disputing their sea border for years, and in recent months tensions on the land border have mounted as claims of interference and counter-claims of provocation are made by both countries, now the politics of territorial dispute have come to have a direct bearing on the respect for human life and development.
In October of 2009, the government of Bangladesh received a report from its military officials detailing a credible threat of attack from Myanmar, they feared that St Martin’s island in the Bay of Bengal, a region increasingly important economically for hydrocarbons, would be attacked and captured by Myanmar, and called for the government to strengthen the defensive capability of the island which has a circumference of just 3 miles. Read more
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