Abrar Fahad deserves Swadhinata Padak in liberation war category: Farooki

March 3, 2025

NEWS DESK Cultural Affairs Adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has said Abrar Fahad should get the Swadhinata Padak in the Liberation War category. Farooki, in a personal post on Facebook on Monday evening, shared his perspective on the category in which Abrar Fahad should receive the award. He added that this year’s Independence Award will be […]Continue Reading

Abrar Fahad to be awarded Swadhinata Padak posthumously

March 3, 2025

NEWS DESK Abrar Fahad, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) who was brutally killed in 2019 by members of the banned organisation Chhatra League, will be posthumously awarded the Swadhinata Padak 2024 (Independence Award), Bangladesh’s highest civilian honour. The recognition honours his courage in standing against injustice and his Continue Reading

CA press wing debunks Indian newspaper’s report about Bangladesh

March 2, 2025

Indian newspaper The Tribune report headlined ‘ISI, Bangladesh operatives teaming up to revive ULFA camps near Assam border’ was a fake one, the Chief Adviser’s Press Wing has said. The Tribune newspaper in New Delhi has run the front-page story claiming that ISI and Bangladesh operatives are teaming up to revive ULFA camps. “As with […]Continue Reading

‘Yunus has long way to go to resolve impasse’: Amartya Sen

March 2, 2025

NEWS DESK Expressing concerns over the ongoing situation in Bangladesh, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said his friend Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of the interim government, is taking significant steps but has a long road ahead to resolve the impasse, the PTI reports. In an interview with the PTI at his Santiniketan home in India’s West […]Continue Reading

India’s Amit Shah for deporting Bangladeshis, Rohingyas from Delhi

March 1, 2025

Union home minister of India Amit Shah on Friday instructed the top brass of the Delhi police to have a clear and swift legal approach while dealing with unauthorised migrants, including Bangladeshis and Rohingyas, in New Delhi city, reported NDTV. ‘At present, an audit is being done in colonies which have a major chunk of […]Continue Reading

Ten armed men killed in India’s Manipur after firefight with security forces

November 11, 2024

Ten armed men were killed in a gunfight with security forces in India’s remote northeastern state of Manipur on Monday, officials said, after they allegedly tried to attack a police station, Reuters reports. Sporadic violence had rocked Manipur since last year when the majority Meitei community and the tribal Kukis clashed after a court ordered […]Continue Reading

Arakan Army targets Myanmar Junta’s Rakhine power hub

November 10, 2024

Fighting between Myanmar’s junta and the Arakan Army (AA) has been reported in Maungdaw, Gwa, Taungup and Ann townships in Rakhine State, The Irrawaddy reports. In Ann and Gwa, the AA said it seized two battalion headquarters and two outposts on Wednesday. The Tai Kyoe and Pagan Taung outposts in Gwa fell after a day […]Continue Reading

Mother of 3 raped, killed in Manipur, 17 homes torched

November 10, 2024

A 31-year-old tribal mother of three was allegedly raped and burned to death in her village home in India’s Manipur’s Jiribam district late Thursday by armed intruders who terrorised the settlement with indiscriminate gunfire, looting and arson that left 17 dwellings gutted.An FIR based on a complaint filed by the victim’s husband with Jiribam police […]Continue Reading

India extends unprecedented invite to Myanmar’s anti-junta forces, sources say

September 25, 2024

India has invited political and military opponents of Myanmar’s ruling junta to attend a seminar in New Delhi, sources said, a significant move by the South Asian power that has maintained ties with the top generals shunned by Western nations, Reuters reports. A civil war in Myanmar since its military unseated an elected civilian government […]Continue Reading

Army officer stabbed to death in Cox’s Bazar’s operation

September 24, 2024

NEWS DESK An army officer was killed by miscreants during a joint forces operation in the Dulahazara area of Chakaria upazila, Cox’s Bazar. The deceased Lieutenant Tanjim Sarwar Nirjan, 23, was part of the 39 ST Battalion, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Tuesday. The incident occurred late Monday night during a raid […]Continue Reading