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Stop building Tipaimukh dam, Zia writes to Manmohan Singh

Tue, 06/23/2009 - 12:12 by preet_20

Dhaka, June 23: Bangladesh's main opposition leader Khaleda Zia has written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that India should stop building the Tipaimukh dam in its north-eastern region.

The Tipaimukh dam on the Barak river is in India's Manipur state.

Zia dispatched the letter Monday, The Daily Star newspaper said. The letter was sent a day after India said that it had 'consulted' Bangladesh on the project and would not do anything to harm the environment of the region.

Details of Zia's letter to Singh were not released. The two last met in March 2006, when Zia was the Bangladesh prime minister.

EU urges Dhaka to re-settle Buddhists in Chittagong hills

Wed, 06/10/2009 - 15:25 by IANS

Dhaka, June 10: The European Union (EU) has urged Bangladesh to remove temporary military bases and help re-settle the original Buddhist tribal residents in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, media reports here said Wednesday.

Visiting EU officials Tuesday suggested that Bangladesh implement a treaty it signed in 1997 with regard to the district in the southeastern part of the country, which is the home to 12 minority ethnic groups.

The treaty with tribal leaders was signed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during her first tenure (1996-2001).

Rising daughter adds to Nepal's cabinet chaos

Thu, 06/04/2009 - 15:09 by Salinder Kumar

Kathmandu, June 4: She has been likened to India's Indira Gandhi and Bangladesh's Sheikh Hasina.

However, the rise of Sujata Koirala, Nepal's first daughter, has now added to the chaos confounding the fledgling cabinet of new Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.

Sujata, daughter of former premier Girija Prasad Koirala, has set the cat among the pigeons in her and her father's Nepali Congress (NC) party with her father nominating her to lead the party in the new government.

On Thursday, nine days after the Nepal cabinet struggled to induct more ministers from its allies, the NC finally forwarded six names.

'Bangla border guards' ammunition may reach Indian militants'

Tue, 04/28/2009 - 13:10 by Salinder Kumar

Dhaka, April 28: A former chief of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) has said the ammunition and explosives that went missing during the troopers' mutiny could have been smuggled to militant groups in northeastern India, raising concerns in both countries.

"The missing weapons could reach the hands of terrorists and other criminals, and could even be smuggled to neighbouring countries' separatists like the United Liberation Front of Assam," Lt. Gen. (retd) Atiqur Rahman, a former BDR chief, told the Daily Star.

India says militants in India' northeast use Bangladeshi soil to stage armed operations, a charge that Dhaka denies.