NEWS DESK Indian police detained 26 Myanmar nationals in Assam’s Silchar after they entered the city in a car on Sunday, May 29, 2022, NDTV reports. According to the police, the Myanmar nationals reached Guwahati in a train from Jammu and Kashmir on Friday night. Then they hired two Innova SUVs to Silchar. They do […]Continue Reading
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NEWS DESK Bangladesh has a “historical rock-solid relationship with India”, said its Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday, May 28, 2022, adding that Dhaka wants to “develop this with all the Indian states”. The Bangladesh Minister called China a “development partner”, NDTV reports. “We have a historical rock-solid Continue Reading
NEWS DESK Indian northeastern state Assam’s Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma today thanked Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for her government’s “zero tolerance policy” to terrorism and insurgency, saying peace and stability are the key factors in development process of his state. He expressed his thanks while visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Continue Reading
NEWS DESK A special court in India has sentenced seven Bangladeshi men, including notorious human-trafficking suspect Rifadul Islam aka Ridoy Babo, to life-term rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a fellow countrywoman. On Friday, the court also sentenced another Bangladeshi woman to 20 years in prison and another Bangladeshi man to five years in the same […]Continue Reading
News Desk A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel sustained severe injuries in an attack by a bunch of livestock smugglers along the India-Bangladesh Border in Assam’s South Salmara-Mankachar region on Tuesday, Northeast Today reports. The injured jawan have been identified as – Dinesh Chandra Yadav of 45th Battalion BSF. The event occurred along the Kalo […]Continue Reading
News Desk: Former BSF commandant Satish Kumar has been arrested under the anti-money laundering law in a case linked to alleged cattle smuggling across the India-Bangladesh international border in West Bengal, the Enforcement Directorate said on Monday, the Press Trust of India reports. Kumar is a former commanding officer of the 36th Border Security Force […]Continue Reading
News Desk: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said the government has accepted the definition of native Muslims of Assam as recommended by cabinet sub-committees, according to the local media report. Last year, the state government had constituted seven sub-committees to suggest measures and recommendations for overall development of the indigenous Assamese Muslims Continue Reading
News Desk: The deportation of a Rohingya woman back to Myanmar has sparked fears that India is preparing to expel many more refugees from the country, The Guardian reports. Hasina Begum, 37, was deported from Indian-administered Kashmir two weeks ago, despite holding a UN verification of her refugee status, intended to protect holders from arbitrary […]Continue Reading
News Desk: There is no doubt about the fact that a piece of chocolate can instantly lift up our mood. You can have chocolate in any form, and it will always feel like pure bliss. But no matter how much you love having chocolate, would you ever cross borders for it? If you think this […]Continue Reading
News Desk: A centre to receive and process applications for Bangladeshi visas was inaugurated in Siliguri on Wednesday, much to the elation of north Bengal residents who have been demanding such a facility for quite some time, Telegraph India reports. The application centre, located at the International Market on Sevoke Road near Panitanki More of […]Continue Reading