LOOKEAST REPORT Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to work together to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees, officials said, but details remain thin as the humanitarian crisis deepens. Ties between the neighbours have been severely strained by army-led violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state that has driven more than 600,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh since…
Read moreDrone footage shows vast numbers of Displaced Rohingyas from Myanmar entering Bangladesh, arriving by boat and walking through flooded fields. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released aerial footage showing thousands of Rohingya Muslims after they crossed the Naf River into Bangladesh. The video shot over the Palongkhali area shows Displaced Rohingyas arriving…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT A Bangladeshi court on Monday issued an arrest warrant against Opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia’s London-based son Tarique Rahman in a sedition case for delivering a provocative speech and also two former journalists of private TV channel Ekushey Television (ETV). Prosecutor Tapash Kumar Pal said the court that accepted the police chargesheet in…
Read moreDHAKA India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the solution of Rohingya crisis lied with the return of the “displaced persons” as Bangladesh sought New Delhi’s sustained pressure on Myanmar for solution of Rohingya issue that created humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh. “India is deeply concerned at the spate of violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar….
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE A secret meeting of top serving and retired army officers in Dhaka has raised the heckles of the Hasina government. The meeting took place on Saturday between 6 and 7.30 pm at the DOHS house of Lt Gen (retd) Harunur Rashid. Those present included former army chief Gen Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, Lt General…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT Bangladesh authorities arrested nine people, including two leaders of the extremist organization Jamaat-e-Islami, for planning to harm people and disrupt the government on September 29. Bombs, explosives, machetes and jihadist books were confiscated from the house in Dhaka where the arrests were made. Police said the group had been planning violence from the…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK Yangon/Delhi Their troops are involved in periodic stand-offs on a long disputed Himalayan border, but India and China seem to be on the same page on the Rakhine conundrum in Myanmar, easily the most sensitive of regional issues at the moment. Both the Asian powers have veered round to back Myanmar strongly in…
Read moreDHAKA: Bangladesh has tightened security along its western border with India amid concern that hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees could be pushed into its territory, officials said on Sunday. Patrols have been stepped up along the frontier with India’s West Bengal state, where border guards say they have been ordered in recent weeks to steer…
Read moreThe Indian home ministry has ordered withdrawal of as many as 1,000 paramilitary personnel, including 300 women, deployed in Darjeeling to maintain law and order during the agitation for a separate Gorkhaland state. In a communication, the ministry said seven companies of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), including three women companies, and three companies…
Read moreFormer UN chief Kofi Annan urged the Security Council on Friday to push for the return to Myanmar of hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas who have been driven out in an army campaign. Annan, who led an advisory commission to the Myanmar government, said world powers must work with the country’s military and civilian…
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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
