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Hope Mamata will see larger picture on Teesta: Bangladesh envoy

Tariq Karim has been Bangladesh’s envoy to India for the past five years, as a political appointee, and has steered the important agreement drafts of the Land Border Agreement and Teesta River water arrangement. Returning from Dhaka, where he had been a part of the bilateral negotiations between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and the […]

Parties cross swords on Bangladesh immigrants for marginal gains

KOLKATA: About three lakh Bangladeshi immigrants enter India every year without valid papers. This was the status report submitted to the Vajpayee government in 2000 by the Madhav Godbole Committee on Border Management. A year later, then Bengal CM Jyoti Basu put the infiltration figure at 1.5 crore — 30 per cent of them Muslims. […]

Nigeria abducted schoolgirls: Malala Yousafzai urges action

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived a shooting by Taliban insurgents, has said the world must not stay silent over the abduction of more than 200 girls in Nigeria. She told the BBC that “if we remain silent then this will spread, this will happen more and more and more”. The girls were kidnapped […]

Thailand court ousts PM Yingluck Shinawatra

A Thai court has ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and several cabinet ministers to step down. The Constitutional Court ruled that Ms Yingluck acted illegally when she transferred her national security head. The ruling follows months of political deadlock. Anti-government protesters have been trying to oust Ms Yingluck since November 2013. The remaining cabinet members […]

Monica Lewinsky breaks decade-long media silence

The one-time White House intern whose affair with President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment in the US Senate has broken her long silence in the media. In Vanity Fair magazine, Monica Lewinsky, 40, writes that she deeply regrets the fling. The president “took advantage” of her, she writes, though she describes their relationship as […]

MH370: Search teams ‘tantalizingly close’ to finding the wreckage of missing plane

As the perplexing hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 enters its fourth week, search teams believe they may be tantalizingly close to finding the wreckage. But for the relatives of the 239 passengers and crew, the failure to retrieve a single piece of debris to date is excruciating. “Maybe he’s dead, maybe he’s not,” Sarah […]

China deploys satellites as search area expands for missing Malaysian jet

DHAKA, March 11 (NsNewsWire) — The search area for a missing jetliner expanded on Tuesday with Malaysian Airlines saying the western coast of the country is now the focus of the hunt, as China deployed 10 satellites to help in the massive multinational effort to find the Boeing 777. In a statement Tuesday, Malaysian Airlines […]

BSF gives list of 66 terror camps to Bangladesh

DHAKA, March 10 (NsNewsWire) — The BSF has handed over a list of 66 camps of north-east insurgents to the Border Guard Bangladesh, seeking actions against them. “We have requested our counterparts in Bangladesh for cooperation in dismantling the camps of insurgents from the region. We have handed over a list of 66 camps that […]

Missing Malaysia Airlines plane ‘may have turned back’

DHAKA, March 9 (NsNewsWire) — Radar signals show a Malaysia Airlines plane that has been missing for more than 24 hours may have turned back, Malaysian officials have said. Rescue teams looking for the plane have now widened their search area, reports BBC. Investigators are also checking CCTV footage of two passengers who are believed […]