The International Farakka Committee (IFC) has welcomed the government of Bangladesh for sending a note verbale to New Delhi seeking to know about their plan to construct two new canals to divert water from the Teesta River.

A group of Bangladeshi stone-lifting workers working near pillar No 732/1-S inside India were asked to leave the area by BSF members of Mahananda camp of 176-BSF Battalion around 8:30am

Indian police arrested five Bangladeshi nationals in Kanpur city of Uttar Pradesh state yesterday on charge of forging documents of their identity.

After a pause of over two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the high-level conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar is set to begin in Naypyitaw on November 23.

Bangladesh has abstained from voting a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that failed to adequately reflect on the Rohingya crisis and their repatriation from Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is seeking a clear roadmap from the UN on the Rohingya repatriation, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar Christine S Burgener in New York Wednesday.

Bangladesh has urged the UN Security Council to take urgent measures to resolve the crisis in Myanmar so that the Rohingyas can return to their homes safely and with security and dignity.

Bangladesh on Tuesday provided about $7.7 million to Sudan, which is rebuilding its $30 billion battered economy from years of corruption and sanctions.

South Korea has decided to provide development cooperation loans of $700 million to Bangladesh between 2021 and 2025.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday left for the US for a weeklong visit to attend two UN events – one on Myanmar crisis and the other on Least Developed Countries (LDCs).

Bangladesh has requested the Saudi government to waive the seven-day mandatory quarantine for Bangladeshi workers in the Kingdom as Dhaka will ensure quarantine here before their departure.

A 35-year-old Chinese national held by India’s Border Security Force, near the border with Bangladesh in West Bengal’s Malda district, for illegal entry on June 10, has claimed he runs a hotel in a posh locality of Gurugram -- a satellite city in Delhi -- along with an Indian partner, police sources said.

Police yesterday detained 12 Rohingyas in Noakhali’s Companiganj upazila for fleeing a refugee camp at Bhasan Char in the district’s Hatiya upazila.

Bangladesh and Japan have agreed to work together to tackle the Rohingya crisis and the challenges posed by the pandemic.

Malaysia’s Immigration Department detained 156 immigrants, including 62 Bangladeshis, during an integrated operation at an illegal settlement in Cyberjaya city Sunday night.

China will deliver the second consignment of Covid-19 vaccines as gifts to Bangladesh by June 13, said the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka yesterday.

Bangladesh and 15 other Asian countries will receive approximately 70 lakh doses of Covid-19 vaccine out of nearly 1.9 crore doses that will be shared by the US through COVAX, according to a White House fact sheet.

Government research confirmed community transmission of the Delta variant, popularly known as Indian variant, in the country and it also found one unidentified variant of coronavirus.

The Provisional Government of Bangladesh today ruled out any political settlement with the West Pakistanis. Home Minister AM Kamaruzzaman issued a statement to the press which categorically rejected President Yahya Khan’s offer of an amnesty. It’s a fight to the finish, he said.

Amid the closure of Indo-Bangla land borders, Bangladeshi nationals are trespassing using several illegal points in six districts of the south.