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BSF plans using drone on Indo-Bangla border Star Online Report DroneIndia’s Border Security Force (BSF) will soon deploy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), popularly known as drone, along the border with Bangladesh to maintain heightened vigil, an Indian English daily reported Monday. A standard...

India hikes onion price Benapole Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 2013-08-21 14:51:28.0 BdST Updated: 2013-08-21 14:51:28.0 BdST India is charging an extra 200-dollar to export each ton of onion to Bangladesh. 6 0 0 Print Friendly and PDF As a result, onion price...

Tunda trained Shibir bombers India correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 19 Aug 2013 11:08 BdST Updated: 19 Aug 2013 11:08 BdST Abdul Karim Tunda learned his bomb making from a Bangladeshi, a mysterious "Zakaria", whose 16 year old daughter he took as his third wife when he was 63...

HRW questions Azam verdict Suliman Niloy, bdnews24.com Published: 16 Aug 2013 14:08 BdST Updated: 16 Aug 2013 15:08 BdST File Photo File Photo The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has questioned the trial process of Jamaat-e-Islami’s guru and a war-crimes convict Ghulam Azam, an...

Published: Saturday, August 3, 2013 Bangladeshi, ex-FBI agent charged with bribery scheme Accused Rizve 'wanted to harm' prominent Bangladeshi opposition political figure Star Online Report Screenshot of US Justice Department news release on the arrest and court proceedings. Screenshot of...

Published: Sunday, July 28, 2013 Three-day Trip to India Dipu Moni returns empty-handed Diplomatic Correspondent Dipu Moni returns empty-handedForeign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday returned home empty-handed after a three-day visit to New Delhi, according to the Indian media and diplomatic...

Indians trust Bangladeshis most Star Online Report India-Bangladesh Bangladesh ranks the highest among the countries Indian voters trust while Pakistan ranks the lowest, according an opinion poll jointly conducted by CNN-IBN TV channel and The Hindu newspaper. When asked which countries...

74 top terrors operating in Bangladesh Mamunur Rashid At least 74 top notoriousterrorists from Bangladesh are now 'hiding' in various cities of India,according to intelligence sources. They confirm that the terrorists,known as the kingpin and godfather of terror outfits, are allegedly...

HomePrintEmailAA MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013 FDI rules putting off investors UN report identifies complex entry procedure, weak governance and unreliable power as major setbacks STAR BUSINESS REPORT Bangladesh is failing to attract the desired levels of foreign direct investment...

Amartya Sen on Quality of Life: India vs. China Amartya_Sen, Indian economist and Nobel prize ... Image via Wikipedia In the most recent New York Review of Books, the Nobel Prize economist Amartya Sen writes a thought-provoking article on why (A) it's not helpful to interpret a higher...

ADB goes the WB way Mon, Jul 2nd, 2012 1:56 pm BdST Dhaka July 2 (bdnews24.com)—The Asian Development Bank is understood to have cancelled the loan deal for the Padma bridge project in line with the World Bank decision as both lenders "follow similar policies, rules and...

Bangladeshi Insurgents Say India Is Supporting Them By SANJOY HAZARIKA, Special to The New York Times Published: June 11, 1989 Sign In to E-Mail Print Single-Page For more than a decade, India has secretly provided arms and money to tribal insurgents fighting for an...

India breaking border pledges: HRW Tue, Jun 12th, 2012 11:21 am BdST Dhaka, Jun 12 (bdnews24.com) – An influential global rights group has accused India of breaking promises to end killings and other forms of abuses along the border with Bangladesh. In a New York-datelined...

o construction on Tipaimukh dam site Wed, Jun 6th, 2012 8:29 pm BdST Sheikh Shahariar Zaman bdnews24.com Senior Correspondent from Silchar Silchar, Assam, June 6 (bdnews24.com)— India is yet to make any construction at the proposed controversial Tipaimukh multipurpose dam site...

Bangladesh's trade deficit widens to $7 bn Bangladesh,Business/Economy, Mon, 21 May 2012 IANS Dhaka, May 21 (IANS) Bangladesh's trade deficit swelled to 6.59 billion in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year ending next month, a 13.04 percent increase from a year earlier, official...

14 women return after jail terms in India Fri, May 4th, 2012 9:26 pm BdST Benapole, May 4 (bdnews24.com) – Fourteen Bangladeshi women, who went to India in search of jobs and were detained by the Indian police, have returned home after languishing about two years in a jail in the...

Dear Manmohan Singh, welcome to Bangladesh. This welcome is not just on behalf of one hospitable people to another but also to the prime minister of the country that matters most to Bangladesh. In 40 years, our relationship has gone from bad to worse to tolerable to smooth to everything else...

When Bangladesh is facing severe electricity crisis for years, a power plant in private sector established by a Malaysian company named Westmont Group has allegedly been grabbed by the husband of the younger sister of Bangladeshi Prime Minister, causing suspension of production. This 90-megawatt...

Dhaka, Aug 22 (bdnews24.com)—The Awami League general secretary has accused a section of the media of working to plunge the country into anarchy and has again said a plot is on to assassinate prime minister Sheikh Hasina. "A ground is being created to kill Sheikh Hasina. Efforts are being...

(CNN) -- Russia opposes U.S. and European leaders' calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign, Interfax news agency reported Friday, saying that the leader should get more time to implement reforms. The move by Russia counters efforts by leaders ratcheting up international pressure...