Bangladesh

US ships on way to provide relief for cyclone-hit Bangladesh

Washington/ Dhaka, Nov 17: Two US Navy amphibious assault ships are on their way to Bangladesh to help authorities in relief and rescue operations after the powerful Cyclone Sidr lashed the country

Over 1, 100 feared dead as Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh

Dhaka, Nov 17 (ANI): BangladeshOver 1, 100 were feared dead and thousands others injured i

Over 425 feared dead as Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh

Dhaka, Nov 16 : Over 425 people were feared dead and thousands others injured in Bangladesh, as the powerful cyclone Sidr lashed the country's south and south-western regions of the country last ni

India, Bangladesh close to solve border disputes

New Delhi, Oct 30 : India and Bangladesh will soon solve their border disputes, it has been learnt.
 
The disclosure comes after the end of the five-days bilateral border talks between the two South Asian neighbours.
 
New Delhi has requested Bangladesh to destruct over 140 Indian rebel camps that are operating from that country, the BBC said in a report.
 
Dhaka has given assurances that it will destroy bases of Harkatul Jihad Islamist militants, Indian officials said.
 
Dhaka has also requested New Delhi to hand over some 1,600 wanted criminals who are taking refuge in India.
 

India asks Bangladesh to hand over 112 North-East rebels

New Delhi, Oct 30 : India has given Bangladesh a list of 112 separatist rebels from the North-East, who have allegedly crossed the border, urging it to hand over them to New Delhi.

Huge drugs haul in Dhaka, two arrested

Dhaka, Oct 26 : In the largest ever Yaba haul in Bangladesh, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Thursday recovered 130,000 contraband nerve stimulant tablets, and arrested two in this connection.

Yaba, the Thai word for "crazy medicine," is a tablet form of methamphetamine, a powerful stimulant.

Amin Huda and his close aide Ahsanul Haque Hasan were arrested at Huda’s Gulshan office with 130,000 Yaba tablets.

The elite force also suspects that Huda is one of the top barons of the drug business in Bangladesh.

The Rab also seized over 5,000 Yaba's alternative drugs ice pills, ice pill preparing chemical, foreign liquor, phensidyle, over Tk 46 lakh and currencies of six other countries.

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