RN Ravi named as new West Bengal Governor
  • Bangladesh minister calls for probe Khaleda – Tarique plot

    DHAKA Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader called for an investigation to unearth the conspiracies of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman that they are hatching in London. “The nation wants to know that what plots Begum Zia and her son Tarique Zia are orchestrating in London and it should be…

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  • Daughters of the East embroiled over Rohingyas

    SUBIR BHAUMIK Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi have much in common beyond the spiraling Rohingya refugee crisis now plaguing both of their elected governments. Both leaders are the daughters of fathers who spearheaded their countries’ respective struggles for sovereign freedom. And both lost those national founding…

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  • The Rohingya Genocide And Inadequate Response From Bangladesh

    TAJ HASHMI I believe “genocide” is the right word to describe the ongoing mass killing, rape, and expropriation of Rohingyas in Myanmar. Polish Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) first used the expression in 1943, to denote the mass killings, rapes, torture, extortions, and marginalization of Jews and others in Axis-occupied Europe in the 1930s and…

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  • Pink Begum’s Pakistan love affair continues

    LOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE The story goes that BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia refused to join her husband in Meghalaya in 1971 where Major (later general) Ziaur Rahman was commanding the Z force of the Mukti Bahini. Then strikingly beautiful, Khaleda decided of her own to stay behind in Dhaka and live together with Colonel Asif Nawaz…

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  • Bangladesh Chief Justice determined to ‘restore democracy’

    LOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE Bangladesh chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has told friends and admirers in Tokyo that he is determined to ‘restore democracy’ in Bangladesh — something that has send a chill down the spine of those in power in Dhaka. At a party hosted by Bangladeshi expatriates on Saturday, Justice Sinha said there were ‘many severe…

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  • Hasina Assassination Bid – DGFI Goes Berserk

    LOOKEAST REPORT The DGFI has gone berserk over the expose on the failed assassination bid on Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina. They have forced the PMO to issue a press release, using one of their assets there, against the wishes of many senior people like Media Adviser to PM. By blocking LOOKEAST story on the…

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  • BNP-ISI Nexus Targets Hasina, But Fails

    SUBIR BHAUMIK LOYALIST bodyguards and counter-terrorism officials have foiled an attempt on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in late August. Intercepts suggested that a group of 6 to 7 personnel of the SSF, who guards the Prime Minister, were all set to attack Hasina when she would take an evening stroll in her office on…

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  • Ready to start verification to repatriate Rohingyas: Suu Kyi

    In her first major speech on the worsening Rohingya crisis, Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, sidestepped allegations of atrocities committed against the stateless Muslim minority and cast the conflict as just one of many problems ailing the country. Appearing to cast doubt on claims that the military has burned homes, killed civilians…

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