DHAKA | UNB BANGLADESH wants Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be present at a tripartite meeting in Beijing as proposed by China to discuss Rohingya repatriation issues. “It won’t be done without her presence. She should be there,” Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen conveyed it to China. Foreign Minister Momen said the number…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | FORMER Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal, Kamal Thapa, reiterated his demand for the government to abdicate the ‘secular’ tag and restore the country’s Hindu identity on the Himalayan country’s Constitution Day. The long–pending demand for the restoration of Nepal’s earlier status as a Hindu state, which the Rastriya Prajatantra Party, led by…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | THE world today is crippled by the throes of the ongoing COVID–19 Pandemic and the nations worldwide are collaborating and innovating to facilitate trans–border movement of goods and international trade for maintaining essential supply chains and for the welfare of humanity. Despite such positive endeavors to deal with this international emergency, some…
Read moreDHAKA | BSS INDIAN external affairs secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla called his Dhaka tour “very satisfactory” as he wrapped up the two–day visit holding bilateral meeting with Bangladesh foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen with COVID–19 vaccine issue appeared to have largely featured the meeting. “I have a very satisfactory visit, a very short visit,” he…
Read moreDHAKA | BSS INDIAN Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla arrived here today on a two–day visit, Bangladesh foreign ministry and Indian high commission officials said. “He is expected to have bilateral talks with our foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen tomorrow,” a Bangladesh foreign ministry official said, briefly adding that Shringla was likely to have a…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK | AMID growing Indian suspicion about Bangladesh’s increasingly close ties with China and even its reaching out to Pakistan a letter from foreign minister S Jaishanker to his Bangladesh counterpart AKA Momen has helped ease tensions. Jaishanker’s 2 July letter reciprocates Momen’s congratulations over India’s becoming a non–permanent member of UN Security Council,…
Read moreSYED MOAZZEM ALI | DHAKA FOWING up on a detailed intelligence report suggesting direct links between a ‘Major Power’ and one of her powerful advisors to unseat the Sheikh Hasina government, grapevine in Dhaka seem to suggest the reopening of Anti–Corruption Commission probes into the 1996 and 2011 Bangladesh Stock Market scams. One of the advisers whose…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | A 12–year–old Bangladeshi boy was rescued by the Border Security Force (BSF) at the Petrapole international checkpoint when he was being trafficked in an empty goods train wagon. On Monday evening, the boy was found travelling on the train from Bangladesh to India. During investigation, he said he hailed from a village…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | NATIONAL Investigation Agency (NIA) has got custody 22–year–old Lashkar–e–Taiba handler Tania Parveen from Kolkata, West Bengal. She was reportedly in touch with several Pakistani handlers though various Pakistani SIM cards and other channels like WhatsApp. NIA has now taken 10–day custody of Parveen where a team of anti–terror probe agency will question…
Read moreLOOKEAST 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…
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