LOOKEAST REPORT | NEPAL’s Special Service Bill giving the national intelligence agency unlimited surveillance and search powers. The proposed law, which permits communications interception without judicial oversight, should be revised to safeguard Nepalis’ vulnerable civil and political rights and their privacy. Nepali police and security forces had been collecting people’s SMS and call details, as…
Read moreSYNDICATE FEED | THE Special Task Force of Kolkata Police on Friday (29 May) morning arrested Bangladesh–based terror outfit Jamaat–ul–Mujahideen Bangladesh’s (JMB) top operative Abdul Karim alias Boro Karim. Abdul was arrested from Suti police station area in Jangipur of West Bengal’s Murshidabad district bordering Bangladesh. Main leader of the Dhuliyan module and would…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | IN a bid to boost its capability to deploy troops and machines rapidly at remote places including the borders with China, the Indian Air Force has inducted the Chinook heavy–lift helicopters at the Mohanbari airbase in Assam. On Thursday, the Chinook were for the first time deployed for operations in the Vijaynagar…
Read moreSyndicate Feed | The Nepal Army has mobilised its military police in four areas of Kathmandu Valley in order to prevent the misuse of its uniform to break the nationwide lockdown, according to the army. The military police, which is the army’s own law enforcement unit, has been mobilised in New Baneshwor, Thapathali, Kalimati and…
Read moreCOX’S BAZAR | A Rohingya refugee has become the first person to test positive for coronavirus in the vast camps in Bangladesh that house almost a million people. Health experts have been warning for some time that the virus could race through the sprawling, unsanitary camps that have been home to the refugees since they fled…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | THE United Nations wants to increase its manpower in Bangladesh to deal with the coronavirus in the Rohingya camps. To this end, the agency has sent a list of 63 people to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka. However, the ministry has approved to bring only 19 people. Meanwhile, the UN…
Read moreBRAHMA CHELLANEY | THE COVID-19 pandemic, much like a major war, is a defining moment for the world – one that demands major reforms of international institutions. The World Health Organisation, whose credibility has taken a severe beating of late, is a good place to start. The WHO is the only institution that can provide…
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | THE identity of mentally challenged woman has been revealed who is staying at no–man’s land of India–Bangladesh border at Khatalchari of South Tripura, adjacent to Ramgarh Upa Zila of Khagrachhari Hill district. A senior official from Bangladesh foreign ministry told LOOKEAST that her name is Shahanaj Parvin a 32 years old lady…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | TABLIGHI Jamaat has emerged as the biggest vector for the spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic across Indian subcontinent. Since the massive gathering at the Markaz Nizamuddin was busted, the Islamic Missionary organisation has contributed a lion’s share to the total number of Coronavirus cases. Now, it is reported that even Rohingya Muslims,…
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Rohingya Immigrants A Big Burden On Bangladesh | Hasina
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