Bangladesh's First Press News Agency
AGARTALA: ULFA leader Anup Chetia, currently lodged in a jail in Bangladesh, will be extradited to India after the completion of judicial formalities, Bangladesh’s home minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir said here on Sunday. Chetia, the founder general secretary of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), had soughtpolitical asylum in Bangladesh thrice in 2005, 2008 and 2011 after being arrested in […]
Read MoreAgartala, Nov 17 (IANS) India’s second international-standard multi-purpose Integrated Check Post (ICP) and the first along the Bangladesh border opened Sunday to people at Akhaurah, near here. Indian Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde inaugurated the check post, built at a cost of Rs.74 crore, in the presence of Bangladesh Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir and senior […]
Read MoreAGARTALA: Justifying the demand of Rs 231.74 crore from14th Finance Commission (FC) beginning from 2015-16 for policing and security related expenditure, Tripura chief ministerManik Sarkar said the banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) still has at least 19 hideouts in neighbouring Bangladesh. Sarkar said NLFT is trying to recruit new cadres and extort money for its revival. […]
Read MoreCOLOMBO, Nov 15 – A Commonwealth summit meant to showcase post-war Sri Lanka was to begin in Colombo on Friday but faced being upstaged by an historic visit to its northern killing fields by Britain’s David Cameron. More than four years after the end of one of Asia’s bloodiest ethnic conflicts, President Mahinda Rajapakse […]
Read MoreTACLOBAN, PHILIPPINES – The Philippine government on Friday defended its efforts to deliver assistance to victims of Typhoon Haiyan, many of whom have received little or no assistance since the monster storm struck one week ago. “In a situation like this, nothing is fast enough,” Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said in Tacloban, most of which […]
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — China on Tuesday was elected to the UN Human Rights Council for a three-year term. China was one of the 14 elected members to the 47-member UN human rights body at the 68th session of the UN General Assembly ( UNGA). It got 176 favorable votes from the 192 […]
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — Saudi Arabia, in an unprecedented moved, formally rejected on Tuesday its two-year term on the UN Security Council, clearing the way for Jordan to take the seat as a replacement. The Middle East power had previously decried the 15-member council’s ineffectiveness in dealing with world affairs, notably the Syrian crisis and Israeli-Palestinian […]
Read MoreAs millions of Filipinos desperately search for sustenance and shelter in the devastation left by Typhoon Haiyan, many may be comforted by the knowledge that help is surely on the way from family members working abroad. The Philippines’ biggest export has long been its workers, with at least 10% of the country’s approximately 100 million […]
Read MorePeople covered their faces with towels and scarves against the stench of death Monday, clogging the typhoon-ravaged roads of the hardest hit part of the Philippines in a traffic jam of desperation. Headed into one center of devastation were Filipinos frantic to find loved ones, or help, or both; fleeing in the other direction were […]
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