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China, U.S. eye more cooperation on fighting Ebola

Visiting Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday agreed to enhance cooperation on fighting the Ebola epidemic, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said here after the talks. Yang noted that Ebola, which continues to spread in West Africa, has become a threat to the public health and […]

Mystery over 176 missing from people trafficker’s boat from Bangladesh

BANGKOK: Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of 176 people, including three women, who were on a people trafficker’s boat that left Bangladesh. There are fears traffickers intend to sell those on board to fishing trawlers or factories as slave labour in Malaysia and Indonesia. Bangladesh officials are travelling to southern Thailand to interview 134 suspected victims […]

More Bangladeshis found in Thailand on human trafficking route

(Reuters) – Thai police found scores of sick and exhausted boat people hiding on a remote island on Monday, and all but one of the 79 suspected human-trafficking victims were from Bangladesh, according to local officials. The discovery brings to more than 130 the number of people found since Saturday in the province of Phang […]

Cyclone Hudhud makes landfall in India

Indian authorities were evacuating hundreds of thousands of people as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal and made landfall on the east coast. Officials were stockpiling emergency supplies and rescue workers were on standby along the coastlines of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha states on Saturday, with Cyclone Hudhud expected to make landfall […]

British citizen nabbed in Bangladesh capital over suspected IS links‏

A British citizen of Bangladesh origin has been arrested in capital Dhaka on suspicion that he is close to the international militant outfit Islamic State (IS). Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told journalists that Samiul Rahman aka Ibn Hamdan was nabbed from Dhaka’s central Kamalapur railway station area […]

India suspects coup in Bangladesh, JeI plans to de-stabilise Sheikh Hasina government

India, worried over plans by radical Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) to destabilise the Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh, is expected to appraise the Obama administration about the machinations of the terror groups in the eastern neighbourhood and the necessity to support the Awami League regime during Narendra Modi’s US trip beginning Thursday. Read more at: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/43376712.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

IS beheads British hostage David Haines, Cameron calls it an act of ‘pure evil’

The Islamic State claimed the beheading of a British aid worker on Saturday, an act slammed as “pure evil” by Prime Minister David Cameron who vowed Britain would do all it could to catch the killers. President Barack Obama offered US support for its “ally in grief”, while Cameron faced growing calls to allow Britain’s […]

China-proposed Silk Road revival to boost trade among nations, continents: Bangladeshi economist

China’s initiatives of reviving the ancient Silk Road through a network of roads and maritime linkages will bolster trade and cultural ties among the Bay of Bengal littorals and over the land mass of Asia and the other continents, according to a noted Bangladeshi economist and business leader. Abdul Awal Mintoo, who held many key […]

India hands over list of 71 insurgents camps to Bangladesh

Bangladesh today said it will take “necessary” steps on a list handed over by India on 71 insurgent camps being run in the country. “We will check the list and take necessary steps,” said Border Guard Bangladesh Director General Major General Aziz Ahmed after his return home from a five-day meeting with the Border Security […]