COX’S BAZAR | 5:45 PM (BDT) Bangladesh officials say plans to begin repatriating more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees to Myanmar have been scrapped after officials failed to find any who wanted to go. Refugee Commissioner Abul Kalam told media on Thursday that the refugees “are not willing to go back now,” adding that officials “can’t…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | Police vehicles have been set on fire by BNP activists in Naya Paltan during a clash with the cops. Also, BNP supporters and police fought running battles in front of the party’s headquarters. TV footage showed a group of men vandalising a police pickup van and a patrol car before torching them…
Read moreTAHSEEN ALI | Bangladesh is preparing for national elections at the end of the year. As usual, a concerted disinformation campaign is being waged against the government by opposition groups. Opponents are crying foul in regional publications like South Asian Monitor.com over what they call an authoritarian crackdown on dissent. This is untrue. Bangladesh is home…
Read moreCOX’S BAZAR & YANGON | Dozens of Rohingya Muslim families on a list of refugees set to be repatriated to Myanmar later this week have fled from camps in Bangladesh where they were living, a Rohingya leader said, even as Myanmar prepares to begin receiving them. “Most of the people on the list have fled…
Read moreDHAKA | Bangladesh cabinet endorsed a protocol signed with India to dredge out about 470 kilometre river ways on Ashugonj — Jakigonj and Sirajgong — Doikhawa route on partnership basis. “The ‘Addendum to the Protocol on Inland Water Transport and Trade’ was approved” in the weekly cabinet meeting with prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the…
Read moreDHAKA | The Bangladesh Election Commission rescheduled the 11th parliamentary election fixing the last date of nomination paper submission on November 28 and the polls date on December 30. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda announced the new schedule while addressing as the chief guest the inaugural function of the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)…
Read moreAGARTALA | The Tripura government will soon start dialogue for purchase of 26% equity shares of the Palatana gas thermal power project from Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS). The 726.6 Megawatt (MW) gas–based power project, run by ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC), was launched in 2014 as a joint venture between ONGC, IDFC, IL&FS…
Read moreYANGON / COX’S BAZAR | Dozens of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh have boarded boats to try to reach Malaysia, officials and aid workers said, raising fears of a fresh wave of such dangerous voyages after a 2015 crackdown on people smugglers. One boat attempted to set sail from the southern coast of Bangladesh,…
Read moreDHAKA | BSS Bangladesh Election Commission set December 23 for the 11th parliamentary election. “The voting will be held on December 23, 2018” Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda said while announcing the election schedule in an address to the nation on state-run television and radio. The CEC said the last date of submission…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | The ULFA has denied intelligence reports about their leader Paresh Barua succumbing to injuries sustained in a road accident. A ULFA statement signed by a member of its publicity department Romel Asom said the reports about Barua’s death were ‘fake and incorrect’. It said: “Our leader is safe and sound.” The statement…
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Human Language Is 135,000 Years Old ?
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Aravalli | An Uncertain Road Ahead
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Election Commission of India has decided to deploy at least 480 companies of Central Forces in various troubled parts of West Bengal from March 1
