Bangladesh

Bangladesh alerts border forces over gas row with Myanmar

Bangladesh alerts border forces over gas row with Myanmar Dhaka - Reported troop movements near the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, apparently resulting from a disagreement over offshore oil and gas rights, have ramped up tensions in the area.

Border forces along the Bangladeshi south-eastern border with Myanmar's Rakhain state were put on red alert Saturday after reports of Myanmar troop deployment on the other side of the border.

British Airways to suspend flights from Dhaka early next year

British Airways to suspend flights from Dhaka early next yearDhaka  - British Airways will suspend its Dhaka-London passenger flights from March because of non-profitability of the route, media reported said Saturday

"The decision to suspend flights between Dhaka and London has been a difficult one to make. However, the route is not making a profitable contribution to our business and we are unable to sustain it," Amanda Amos, the airline's Area Commercial Manager for South Asia, said in a statement.

The airline, however, will continue cargo operations using connecting flights via the Middle East, said the release issued on Friday.

Bangladesh's party puts conditions to join December polls

Dhaka, BangladeshDhaka  - One of Bangladesh's past ruling parties on Friday voiced a seven-point charter of demands for joining the December 18 general election to return the South Asian nation to democracy, ending nearly two years of emergency rule.

"We will contest the election if the authorities ensure an atmosphere conducive for fair polls," former prime minister Khaleda Zia, the chief of Bangladesh Nationalist Party
(BNP), told a huge gathering of her supporters in the south-eastern Chittagong city.

She called upon the military-backed interim government of Fakhruddin Ahmed to meet her seven demands.

Bahrain fire claims lives of 3 Bengali workers

Jid Hafs, Bahrain  - Three Bengali workers were killed in a fire that broke out early Friday in a two-storey residential building in the village of Jid Hafs on the outskirts of Bahrain's capital, M

Sheikh Hasina returns to Dhaka to contest general polls

Sheikh Hasina returns to Dhaka to contest general pollsDhaka, Nov 7: Former Bangladeshi premier Sheikh Hasina Wajed last evening returned home to lead her party in December parliamentary elections. She spent the past five months in the US getting medical treatment.

Police said more than two lakh supporters packed the route to the airport to greet their leader after the emergency government this week lifted all curbs on political rallies ahead of the first polls in seven years.

Bangladesh vows to protect territorial waters in the Bay of Bengal

Bangladesh vows to protect territorial waters in the Bay of Bengal Dhaka - Bangladesh has resolved to protect its sovereign territorial waters in the Bay of Bengal where it claims Myanmar authorities allegedly intruded for oil and gas exploration, officials said Thursday.

A high-level meeting of government and military officials in Dhaka reviewed the situation in the Bay of Bengal over Myanmar's presence in the disputed waters.

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