Tue, Dec 4th, 2012
New Delhi Correspondent
New Delhi, Dec 4 (bdnews24.com)—Home Minister MK Alamgir and his Indian counterpart Sushil Shinde on Tuesday agreed to sign the extradition treaty in January.
“It was agreed that Revised Travel Agreement as well as extradition treaty will be finalised and signed in January 2013 during my proposed visit to Dhaka,” Shinde said after a meeting in New Delhi.
Alamgir told Shinde that Dhaka would expect that New Delhi would ratify the 1974 Land Boundary Agreement and its September 2011 protocol at an early date. Shinde, however, …

Dated 6-Nov-2012                   Paper No. 5281
Can ideology and political agenda change overnight? At least, that is the message Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia carried when she arrived in India on October 28 for an eight-day visit.
Begum Zia came at the invitation of the Government of India.  There have been some comments that this is a change in India’s Bangladesh strategy.  This is not correct.
Certainly, following the assassination of Sk. Mujibur Rahaman in August 1975, New …

28 October 2012, 08:09 PM IST
With Bangladeshi leader of opposition Khaleda Zia in New Delhi for a week-long visit, one can expect a flurry of substantive exchanges. There are two main reasons why Zia’s visit is more than a courtesy call. First, Bangladesh goes to polls sometime late next year, and Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) could very well come to power. After all, a mere 3% difference in vote share is what separates the current opposition from the ruling Awami League regime. Given the massive anti-incumbency factor that all …

17 September 2012
Mubashar Hasan

In the past two years, four young Bangladeshi, including two women, scaled Mount Everest, becoming national heroes. More importantly, these individuals also became powerful political symbols, used on various sides, to disguise the failure of politics in Bangladesh.

Four young Bangladeshi mountaineers made their country proud when they hoisted the national flag at the top of the world—the peak of Mount Everest. This trend began in 2010 when a 30 years old journalist, Musa Ibrahim, became the first Bangladeshi ever to …

ঢাকা : মুক্তিযোদ্ধাদের সন্তান বা তাদের উত্তরাধীকার মেধাবী শিক্ষার্থীদের মাঝে বৃত্তি প্রদান করে আসছে আমাদের মহান স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধে সর্বাত্মক সহায়তাদানকারী প্রম বন্ধুপ্রতীম দেশ ভারত।
উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক ও স্নাতক পর্যায়ে পাঠরত মুক্তিযোদ্ধাদের সন্তান বা তাদের উত্তরাধীকার মেধাবী শিক্ষার্থীদের মাঝে ভারত সরকার এ বৃত্তি দিয়ে আসছে।
এ কার্যক্রমের আওতায় স্নাতক পর্যায়ে প্রত্যেক মনোনীত শিক্ষার্থী বছরে ২৪ হাজার টাকা করে পরবর্তী ৪ বছর এ বৃত্তি পেতে থাকবে।
উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পর্যায়ে মনোনীত প্রার্থী বছরে ১০ হাজার টাকা করে পরবর্তী দুই বছর এই বৃত্তির টাকা পাবে।
বাংলাদেশের মুক্তিযুদ্ধে অংশ নেওয়া বীর যোদ্ধাদের উত্তরসূরীদের জন্য এই বৃত্তি প্রদান কার্যক্রম …

KOLKATA: The history of Bangladesh’s liberation war will be incorporated in the secondary curriculum as per the recommendation of Pashchimbanga’s school education syllabus committee.
State education minister Bratya Basu said the history of our neighbouring countries, including Bangladesh would be included in their next syllabus.
Meanwhile, biographies of Marx and Lelin would also be added in the new syllabus, she said.
Education Ministry source said the history of great language movement, liberation war of Bangladesh and principals of international heroes, including Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would also be in the curriculum.
BDST: 1416 HRS, …

নয়াদিল্লি: বাংলাদেশের ভেতর থেকে সন্ত্রাসবাদী সংগঠনগুলো এখনো তাদের কার্যক্রম চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে বলে মন্তব্য করেছেন ভারতের প্রধানমন্ত্রী মনমোহন সিংয়ের বিশেষ দূত সতিন্দর কে লাম্বা।
নয়াদিল্লিতে বৃহস্পতিবার এক সেমিনারে দেওয়া বক্তব্যে লাম্বা এ কথা বলেন।
তিনি মনমোহন সিংয়ের পাকিস্তান ও আফগানিস্তান বিষয়ক বিশেষ দূত।
বাংলাদেশ ও ভারতের নিরাপত্তা বিষয়ক ওই সেমিনার আয়োজন করে নয়াদিল্লিভিত্তিক ‘অবজারভার রিসার্চ ফাউন্ডেশন’ ও ঢাকাভিত্তিক বাংলাদেশ এন্টারপ্রাইজ ইনস্টিটিউট।
লাম্বা বলেন, ‘সন্ত্রাস নির্মূলে প্রতিবেশী দেশটির (বাংলাদেশ) সরকারের ক্রমাগত প্রচেষ্টা সত্বেও দেশটি থেকে সন্ত্রাসবাদী সংগঠনগুলো তাদের কর্মকাণ্ড চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে।’
তিনি বলেন, ‘সন্ত্রাসী, জঙ্গি, উগ্রপন্থিরা যে কোনো ধরনের আইন বা সীমান্ত রেখা …

One of the most important challenges we face as a free people is understanding the true nature of – and threat posed by – a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine its adherents call shariah. So, it would seem to be good news that a $3 million public education campaign is being launched nationwide to “clarify” what shariah is.
The question is: Will this campaign be truthful and helpful, or will it amount to an exercise in what is not only permissible under shariah, but obligatory: lying for the faith, or …

The last week has done much to educate me in the ethnic politics of South Asia. After writing this blog post criticizing those Canadian Sikh activists who expressed support for convicted terrorist Balwant Singh Rajoana, I received an avalanche of hate mail. Many of the messages repeated the same words, and clearly were part of an organized mass-mailing campaign against me and CBC reporter Terry Milewski (who also has reported on Rajoana’s supporters) — similar to the Tamil mass-mailing campaigns that targeted me when I …

Hasina tells Indian newspaper
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says failing to sign the Teesta water-sharing treaty during her Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh’s visit to Bangladesh in September last year has hurt the ties between the two close neighbours.
In an hour-long exclusive interview at her office, Hasina also tells Manash Ghosh why she thinks the trip of Indian PM has not gone in vain, how the opposition is striving to undermine her government and why the constant threat of assassination doesn’t deter her.
Following is the …

The US House of Representatives under the auspices of Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission organized a hearing on the continuing plight of religious minorities in South Asia, focusing particularly on Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The hearing was held in Canon House Office Building Room No: 340 on March 21, 2012 at 10 AM.
The following individuals gave their testimony in the hearing:

Leonard Leo, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom,
Majed El Shafie, Founder, One Free World International,
Amjad M. Khan, National Director of Public Affairs, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA,
Dr. Sachi …

Agartala, Mar 19 (PTI) A controversy has arisen in Tripura over the Bangladesh government deciding to include Chief Minister Manik Sarkar in the list of 129 foreign dignitaries who contributed to the country’s Liberation War in 1971, with the opposition Congress opposing it and dubbing it a ‘distortion of history’. Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on February 16 invited the chief minister as the National Committee of Bangladesh recommended his name to formally recognise his contribution to the Bangladesh Liberation War, a press statement issued by the government said. She …