Source/Credit: World War 4 Report Tribal communities across Bangladesh on Aug. 9 observed the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People with rallies to demand their constitutional recognition as “indigenous people.” An especially large mobilization was held in Rangamati in the southeastern Chittagong Hill Tracts. (See map.) The protests were a reaction to recent statements by Foreign […]
Source: UN News Center 7 August 2012 – The United Nations refugee agency today urged Bangladeshi authorities to ensure that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can continue to provide assistance to unregistered people who have fled the violence in neighbouring Myanmar’s Rakhine state, after reports emerged of Government authorities banning them […]
Credit: ET Lightning appeared to ‘electrify’ mosque after hitting a rooftop microphone being run on power from a car battery. PHOTO: FILE DHAKA: At least 13 Muslim worshippers were killed and 15 hurt when lightning struck a mosque in a remote village in northeast Bangladesh as they held special Ramazan prayers, […]
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page In the month of Ramadan Muslims around the world struggle to deal with the Miraj – the accession to heaven by the Holy Prophet of Islam that to us Ahmadi Muslim is pretty clear was […]
Source: Daily News The founder of Bangladesh’s pioneer micro-lending institution, the Grameen Bank believes that the government’s latest move to expand the power of the chairman could hurt the millions of poor borrowers. Last year Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was fired from his position at the bank by the government […]
By William Gomes – Bangladesh Bangladesh is terrorized by Islamic terrorism. Islamic terrorism has created a culture of fear in Bangladesh. Our main objective is to bring out the nation […]
The daily Star: Jamaat-e-Islami now appears to go on with a revised strategy to take advantage of the month of Ramadan to conduct a countrywide campaign against the government and […]
Source: NY Times. By Reuteres The government told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighboring Myanmar. The announcement, directed at the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Muslim Aid and Action […]
(Reuters) – Bangladesh told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingyas Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighbouring Myanmar. France’s Médecins Sans Frontières, British-based Muslim Aid and Action Against Hunger were told about the ban by Joynul Bari, commissioner of […]
Source: CBS/AP DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh has decided to expand the power of the government-appointed chairman at pioneering micro lender Grameen Bank. Government spokesman Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan says amending the law will allow the chairman to appoint the managing director of the bank. That authority is now held by the […]
Source/Credit: Business Recorder Bangladesh’s anti-graft agency has charged a former army chief and war hero with stealing $400 million from nearly two million investors through alleged Ponzi schemes, police said on Wednesday. The agency accuses retired Lieutenant General Harunur Rashid, the president of Destiny Group, and 21 other senior officials […]
Source/Credit: Voice of America Bangladesh is of strategic importance to the United States as a successful, tolerant, secular, alternative to violent extremism. Bangladesh has worked tirelessly to lift millions out of poverty and provide an important voice for regional stability. But for all its progress, Bangladesh still has serious human […]
Dawn: Bangladesh has ordered three international charities to stop providing aid to Rohingya refugees who cross the border to flee persecution and violence in Myanmar, an official said Thursday. France’s […]
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Daily Star: Courtesy Abdul Awwal: The Myanmar government has conveyed its anxiety to the Bangladesh mission there that the Jamaat-e-Islami had been helping the Rohingya groups in Bangladesh with arms to incite […]
Source: Hindustan Times. Clashes between minority immigrants and Bodo tribals continued unabated as the toll in the ethnic violence shot up to 40 today with the recovery of eight more bodies even as the Centre asked the Assam government to nab the “ring leaders” involved in unrest. Five more bodies […]
Source: Global Voice The Bangladesh capital Dhaka has been declared as the capital of Islamic culture along with two other cities. The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO), a subsidiary of […]
Macleans: The assassin among us Nur Chowdhury faces execution for killing Bangladesh’s president. That’s why he’s safe in Canada. On a muggy Friday in August 1975, as pre-dawn prayers rang out from city mosques, five trucks sped through the still-dark streets of Dhaka on a mission to change history. Each […]
Source: AP By: MATTHEW PENNINGTON | Associated Press Published: July 19, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) Accusations of extrajudicial killings by Bangladeshi paramilitary forces and the South Asian nation’s refusal to grant refuge to fleeing refugees faced scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers Thursday. The congressional hearing also examined allegations of abuses against labor […]
Source: Gulf Times. Bangladesh had widely welcomed the “brothers in trouble” as it witnessed first Rohingya refugee influx in 1978, but the realities stand reversed in 2012 when the Myanmar’s ethnic minority community is not welcome despite their exposure to sectarian violence in their homeland. This year Bangladesh has refused […]