West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee met Bangladesh High Commissioner M Riaz Hamidullah at the state secretariat Nabanna for the first time in 9 years. The courtesy meeting was held to discuss motives behind incidents like the vandalism of a site linked to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the BJP of targeting Bengali-speaking citizens in states ruled by the saffron party by labelling even valid document holders as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma here on Monday said that his government has taken a firm decision to continue pushing back illegal immigrants back to Bangladesh following the provisions of Immigrant Expulsion from Assam Act 1950.
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal or the ICT has formally indicted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on charges of mass murder and crimes against humanity. The charges are based on her alleged role in orchestrating a violent suppression on students in the student led protests between July and August of 2024 resulting in around 1,400 deaths (including students, police and common peopl), according to a UN human rights report.
India has deported over 2,000 undocumented Bangladeshi immigrants since Operation Sindoor began. Following a directive from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, intense efforts against illegal migration and deportation of migrants have taken place.
Ripples of discontent have spread across Bangladesh as the country grapples with deepening distrust in the civil administration. the interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has seen protests rise across countless administration offices like the Bangladesh Secretariat and the country’s National Board of Revenue (NBR), as civil servants and business leaders oppose proposed reforms and policies.
China’s recent approval of a colossal hydro electricity project on the Brahmaputra River known as Yarlung Zangbo in Tibet, has ignited a fiery debate raising several environmental, geopolitical, and regional stability concerns.
It is known that in India the participation of women as work force in formal sector has been very low. This lower not compared to that of developed countries. It is more in the countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, Nepal, etc.
