Bangladesh News and Discussion

csaurabh · Post by **csaurabh** » 21 Mar 2015 20:59

400 k words? Even the Oxford English dictionary has only 170k.
Probably sounds like a scam..

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 21 Mar 2015 21:00

give it to college students as projects supervised by faculty and masters students.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 21 Mar 2015 22:13

csaurabh wrote:400 k words? Even the Oxford English dictionary has only 170k.
Probably sounds like a scam..

https://developers.google.com/events/5829687908499456/

Probably means a lot of people translated a lot of words; Google Translate would want redundancy, because a single person/source would likely have significant errors.

member_28860 · Post by **member_28860** » 21 Mar 2015 22:53

Maybe Sheikh Hasina playing to the gallery, but I have no doubt in my mind that at the end of day India has to fend for itself w.r.t. Bangladesh, whether it is her or Begum Khaleda Zia. The anti India bias is only skin deep...

http://tribune.com.pk/story/856975/bang ... ndias-win/

Kati · Post by **Kati** » 21 Mar 2015 23:43

^^^

Sheikh Hasina is playing to the gallery since she has no other option.......

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 22 Mar 2015 18:44

http://energybangla.com/bd-import-7000m ... eighbours/

Bangladesh has planned to import 6000-7000 MW of power from Nepal, Bhutan and India, said State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid on Saturday.

“We’ve now recast our plan to double the future import of electricity from our neighbouring countries. Earlier, our plan was to import 3,000 MW, he told the concluding session of the two-day “Sector Leaders’ Workshop” at Biduyt Bhaban in the city.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 23 Mar 2015 17:00

http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_dis ... _id=305924

Agartala, March 22 (IANS): The fourth 'border haat' (market) along the India-Bangladesh border is likely to be inaugurated next month to boost trade in local produce of areas on the two sides along the international boundary, a Tripura minister said on Sunday.

"Another 'border haat', built at a cost of Rs.2.44 crore, is ready at Kamalasagar, bordering Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh. This would be the fourth 'border haat' along the India-Bangladesh border in the north-eastern states and second in Tripura," Tripura Industries and Commerce Minister Tapan Chakraborty told reporters here.

He said: "Indian and Bangladeshi ministers, in presence of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, would inaugurate the new 'border haat' at Kamalasagar (30 km south-west of Agartala) likely next month."

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 25 Mar 2015 16:49

http://www.newkerala.com/news/2015/fullnews-35971.html

President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday extended his greetings and felicitations to Bangladesh on the eve of the People's Republic's National Day.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 27 Mar 2015 04:05

http://post.jagran.com/modi-greets-bang ... 1427372488

"Independence Day greetings to the people of Bangladesh, a nation that has always been an enduring and important friend for India," Modi said in a brief statement.

sum · Post by **sum** » 27 Mar 2015 04:19

Bangladeshi intelligence officials enter India, sent back

Agartala: Four Bangladeshi intelligence officials who illegally entered Tripura were beaten up by villagers but were allowed to go back after Indian officials intervened, police said on Thursday.

Four other intelligence officials ran back to Bangladesh when these four were pounced upon by villagers in Boxanagar in Sipahijala district, police sources said here.

The incident took place on Wednesday night. The Bangladeshi officials, said to be district level intelligence officials, reportedly entered India in search of illegal drugs.

The Border Security Force rescued the Bangladeshi officials from the custody of the villagers, said a police officer on the condition of anonymity.

"As a goodwill gesture, the BSF handed them over to the Border Guards Bangladesh on Wednesday night itself," the officer said.

Bangladeshi security personnel have often entered Tripura but have been sent back without taking any legal action in view of the sensitive bilateral relations.

Whats this about?

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 29 Mar 2015 20:29

Bangladesh should be proud it broke away from Pakistan.
News-item in full:

WB: Bangladesh needs no budget support in 2015-16 fiscal

The World Bank thinks Bangladesh will not need any budget support from the global lender in the fiscal year 2015-16, official sources said.
- See more at: http://www.dhakatribune.com/evening-bri ... LUD92.dpuf

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 29 Mar 2015 20:43

sum wrote:Bangladeshi intelligence officials enter India, sent back

Agartala: Four Bangladeshi intelligence officials who illegally entered Tripura were beaten up by villagers but were allowed to go back after Indian officials intervened, police said on Thursday.

Four other intelligence officials ran back to Bangladesh when these four were pounced upon by villagers in Boxanagar in Sipahijala district, police sources said here.

The incident took place on Wednesday night. The Bangladeshi officials, said to be district level intelligence officials, reportedly entered India in search of illegal drugs.

The Border Security Force rescued the Bangladeshi officials from the custody of the villagers, said a police officer on the condition of anonymity.

"As a goodwill gesture, the BSF handed them over to the Border Guards Bangladesh on Wednesday night itself," the officer said.

Bangladeshi security personnel have often entered Tripura but have been sent back without taking any legal action in view of the sensitive bilateral relations.
Whats this about?

apparently there is substantial smuggling from India to BD of cough syrup type of medicinal drugs that are also used for getting high.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 30 Mar 2015 08:26

Bangladesh should be proud it broke away from Pakistan.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1172665/stagnant-exports

Pakistan’s exports have been stagnant for the last four years (since FY10-11), vacillating in a narrow band of $24-25bn. During the first seven months of this fiscal (July 2014-February), exports stood at $16bn. Bangladesh’s exports surpassed the $30bn-mark last year and is set to hit the current year’s target of $34.5bn.

According to a recent UN study covering a 30-year period (1980-2011), India’s share of world exports improved from 0.43pc to 1.7pc; Bangladesh’s from 0.04pc to 0.14pc; Malaysia’s from 0.74pc to 1.34pc; and Thailand’s from 0.37pc to 1.35pc. Pakistan’s share, however, remained stagnant at 0.15pc.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 30 Mar 2015 17:21

A blogger was hacked to death by machete-wielding assailants in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Monday, the second attack in five weeks on a critic of religious extremism in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation.

Washikur Rahman, a secular blogger, was attacked by young religious students on a busy street in the centre of Dhaka on Monday morning, a police official said.

"Police on duty near the spot caught two attackers red-handed with three machetes as they were fleeing the scene after the incident," police official Humayan Kabir told Reuters.

The killing comes just weeks after U.S. secular blogger Avijit Roy was hacked to death while returning with his wife from a book fair in Dhaka. His wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, suffered head injuries and lost a finger in the Feb. 26 attack.

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/anot ... 26390.html

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 01 Apr 2015 02:42

http://bdnews24.com/economy/2015/03/31/ ... from-india

The government has cleared two projects costing Tk 160 billion to strengthen a transmission line and sub-station to import 600 megawatt electricity from India.

The cost to bolster the 55-kilometre line from Bherhamara to India's Baharampur has been estimated at Tk 14.05 billion.

The project to erect a line from India’s Tripura to Comilla and build a sub-station on the Bangladesh side will cost around Tk 1.8 billion.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC), chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, also cleared four other projects having an estimated cost of Tk 511.78 billion.

State Minister for Finance and Planning MA Mannan said the power projects aimed to meet the country’s energy demand.

Asian Development Bank will provide Tk 9.45 billion for the Bheramara-Bahrampur grid link project with the government pumping in the remaining Tk 4.6 billion.

The government will fund the entire project to set up the transmission line from Tripura to Comilla.

The meeting observed that the objective of the Bheramara-Bahrampur grid interconnection project was to import 500 MW from India.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 01 Apr 2015 02:44

http://www.theindianawaaz.com/index.php ... 2&catid=18

The Centre is keen on signing the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh to solve the problems of the people residing at enclaves in both sides of the border.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that the Centre will soon take steps to redress the problems of people residing at the enclaves along Indo-Bangladesh border with a human approach and hoped that the Parliament will soon pass the land boundary bill. He was speaking at Tinbigha Corridor in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal.

The Home Minister said that construction of Border Out-posts of Border Security Force is being hampered in the State for non availability of land. Mr Singh said that he will talk to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the issue.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 02 Apr 2015 17:56

http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/bsf ... 72045.html

Kolkata: The BSF, in three operations across the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, has seized 64 kg of ganja and over 500 grams of heroin besides arresting a man for weapons smuggling, an officer said on Thursday.

Troopers of the 26th battalion of the Border Security Force seized 64 kg of ganja near Behra border outpost in North 24 Parganas district during a special operation on Wednesday night.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 03 Apr 2015 18:55

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/alyssa-ayr ... 93490.html

Yet in an awful irony, in this land that fought for the right to its own voice in its own language, a new form of intolerance appears to be emerging: fanaticism against secular expression. The murders of Ahmed Rajib Haider (2013), Avijit Roy (February 2015) and now Oyasikur (Washiqur) Rahman (March 2015) signal a closing of some Bangladeshi minds to the country's founding ideals. This phenomenon appears much different from the kinds of terrorism Bangladesh has dealt with earlier: the goal is not to replace the government, or cause public mayhem, but instead to silence individuals for expressions of atheism. These are assassins targeting secular minds.

Two months ago, it was easy to be optimistic about Bangladesh winning the war against radical Islamist violence. Today it's much harder.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 06 Apr 2015 16:20

Bangladesh can trade with Nepal, Bhutan thru India
Shohel Mamun

Bangladesh now can trade with Nepal and Bhutan using the land, road, water and railways of India.

The cabinet has approved the draft of trade agreement (amendment) between Bangladesh and India on Monday afternoon.

Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan briefed the reporters after the cabinet meeting at the secretariat.

The deal has been renewed for next five years. Previously, the tenure of the deal was three years.

Another provision has been included in the agreement that the deal will be renewed automatically after five years if both the parties do not have any objection.
- See more at: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/ ... qJlSP.dpuf

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 06 Apr 2015 16:21

India offers Bangladesh another $1bn credit
Asif Showkat Kallol

The authorities of neighbouring India has again offered Bangladesh $1bn credit line for the development of the country's road communication and infrastructure.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith disclosed the information after a meeting with visiting Secretary of Indian External Affairs Ministry Sujata Mehta at his office on Monday afternoon.

Muhith said: “They have asked us regarding the sectors we are willing to spend the loan in.”

Couple of years ago, India offered Bangladesh 1bn dollar credit line at India and Bangladesh Joint Economic Council meeting.

During former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh's tenure, Indian authorities provided Bangladesh the first 1bn soft loan in 2010.

Under the $80 crore loan, only $36 crore was disbursed till February this year and they gave $20 crore for the construction of Padma bridge, according to Economic Relations Division (ERD).
- See more at: http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/ ... BznQS.dpuf

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 07 Apr 2015 16:36

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 835858.cms

DHAKA: Bangladesh Cabinet has approved a revised trade deal with India under which the two nations would be able to use each other's land and water routes for sending goods to a third country, removing a long standing barrier in regional trade.
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Under the revised deal, trucks from Nepal and Bhutan would enter Bangladesh through the Indian corridors while previously they were required to park at a specific point along the Indian border where goods from Bangladesh were uploaded.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 07 Apr 2015 17:49

http://bdnews24.com/neighbours/2015/04/ ... ime-crimes

Indian Coast Guard and Bangladesh Coast Guard officers held a high-level meeting in New Delhi on Monday to explore ways to fight all forms of maritime crimes.

A government official said several key issues like training for Bangladesh Coast Guard personnel, maritime search and rescue, and response to marine pollution were discussed.

“The two sides also discussed the serious issue of arms smuggling in the Bay of Bengal,” said a senior government official privy to the meeting.

While Rear Admiral Mohammad Makbul Hossain, Director General, Bangladesh Coast Guard, led the Bangladesh delegation, his Indian counterpart Vice Admiral HCS Bisht led the Indian side.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 08 Apr 2015 16:06

This is infinitely better behavior than Pakistan:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 849908.cms

Indian among two ULFA members sentenced to life in Bangladesh

An Indian national, who belonged to the banned separatist outfit ULFA, and his Bangladeshi aide were today sentenced by a court on terrorism charges.

The court in Kishoreganj sentenced ULFA leader Ranjan Chowdhury alias Major Ranjan and his Bangladeshi aide Pradip Marak who were arrested in July, 2012 from Lakhsmipur area of Bhairab with a number of weapons in their possession.

Chowdhury had been staying in Bangladesh since 1997 and maintained contact with the group, the police ..

Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/art ... aign=cppst

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 09 Apr 2015 21:25

http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/b ... 35406.aspx
While talking about the promise of India-Bangladesh relations,

Indian investment in Bangladesh during January-September 2014 was only $54 million — lagging behind eight countries, including Pakistan.

IMO, India needs more influence in Bangladesh than Pakistan and its 3.5 friends combined. A friendly Bangladesh more closely integrated economically speaking, would be strategic gold.

Tuvaluan · Post by **Tuvaluan** » 09 Apr 2015 21:31

^^^Recent reports from the MEA suggest exactly that -- it is also important to ensure that Khaleda Zia and her pro-pakistan jihadis never come back to power backed by the Bangladeshi Jamaat. That will roll back all that has been achieved in the past couple of years.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 09 Apr 2015 21:46

I am trying to find out how much of the 2.4 million acres of land confiscated from Hindus have been returned by the Hasina govt after she allowed claims under the Vested property return act. Please post news item on the same if you find any.

Tuvaluan · Post by **Tuvaluan** » 09 Apr 2015 21:49

The MEA/Indian govt. is working on land exchange to resolve this problem -- so that it is easier for both sides to enforce their national boundaries. Nothing recent on any developments on this front.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 11 Apr 2015 02:21

Not sure where to put this, moderator, please move if necessary.
http://www.dhakatribune.com/heritage/20 ... ssing-link

Although the Brahmaputra is, reasonably, supposed to be the main thread of what the Chinese have called the Southern Silk Road, there has always been speculation about how ancient traders have, with ease, made the link from that river, and the subcontinent, to the nascent Yellow River as the main, riverine, route to the great urban centres of prehistoric China.

The Teesta route into Sikkim, and thence to Tibet, was, almost certainly, one such connection; as was the ancient Ledo Road from Assam through Upper Myanmar, to Yunnan. The fact that Ptolemy clearly marked Ramcu, at a location identifiable with today’s Ramu, suggests that, in addition to valley routes towards Mandalay from Sylhet and Chittagong, there were even more easterly routes, including, no doubt, such rivers as the Naf, and the great rivers of modern Burma.

However, it may well be that the missing link in speculation about such key linkages, all of which seem to involve substantial, and necessarily hazardous mountain crossing, to date, could well be the, currently, closely protected and militarised route of the Lohit River. Rising, as it does, in Tibet, and passing through the Himalayas without, apparently, according to the distinguished French archaeologist, Jean-Francois Salles, who has done so much research in Bangladesh in recent decades, ever rising more than 1,000 metres above sea level.

This is one of the two great passes by which, in 1962, China entered Indian territory at the beginning of the Sino-Indian War. It is, however, perhaps the most navigable, by water and by waterside, through the Himalayas.

The Lohit River rises in eastern Tibet, in the Zayal Chu range of mountains, passes through Sichuan Province, and crosses into India at Kibithu. The pass through which the river enters India is in the very north of Arunachal Pradesh, not so far from the northern Myanmar border, flowing on for two hundred kilometres, through into Assam.

In this northern state of India, an ancient part of which is now in Bangladesh, it flows into the waters of the Tsangpo River, also with its origins in Tibet. The joint waters of these two rivers become the famous, holy, “son of Brahma,” the Brahmaputra. Thence, it flows to the lands around the Ganges Delta where its waters meet those of the Ganges and Meghna, forming the world’s largest delta. At the heart of modern Bangladesh.

Here, since ancient times, this diversity of trading routes to the seas around the Delta, have formed one of the world’s earliest and greatest centres of trade. From the delta, water borne trade reached lands, certainly west, by road and river through the Ganges basin, and, by sea, beyond, to East Asia, Arabia, Africa, and Europe. And also, the emerging nations of Southeast Asia.

The lands where the waters of the Lohit enter India are still populated by a wide diversity of Tibetan Burmese tribal peoples -- ancient peoples with ancient traditions. And this concentration may well have derived, historically, in this remote terrain, from the trade that would have flowed through it, from very ancient times; as early, even, as 10,000 years before the Common Era, considering such possible linkages as the domestication of rice, that appears to have occurred in the fertile valleys of Yunnan and Sichuan, over twelve millennia ago, to be followed by such development in the Ganges Basin within a millennium or so.

Exploration of the terrain, today, is difficult, if not impossible, in view of the military sensitivity of it as a navigable passage between the two great neighbouring, but rival, nations.

Someday, perhaps, archaeological exploration may well reveal more substantial evidence of the vital linkage between emerging empires; thus far, however, it is only the self evident accessibility as a link between the archaeology of prehistoric China with its documentary and archaeological evidence of ancient, transnational trade, and the legendary, documentary and archaeological evidence of the links with the subcontinent, that provide, largely, circumstantial evidence of them.

We may well wonder why India itself is so discrete about the identity, and the history, of this, hitherto, missing link in the consideration of the Southern Silk Road.

However, it seems reasonable to suppose that, since promotion of such an ancient trading route must, inevitably, include Bangladesh as the only realistic port of exit and entry, India has preferred not to mention it.

Perhaps, more charitably, we may also suppose that, militarily, the frontier link is so sensitive that India is reluctant to encourage tourism in the area. Especially, given some of the politically rampant independence movements in the region.

Whatever the reason, it appears that this river, known as “the river of blood,” not only, it seems, for the colour of the laterite, or rust-red from the iron oxide content in its soil, but also, we may assume, from its regular site as a field of conflict, has been, for millennia, the key link between sprawling empires, and rich centres of trade.

??? its regular site as a field of conflict???

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 11 Apr 2015 02:24

http://www.joc.com/maritime-news/trade- ... 50410.html

India-Bangladesh cross-border trade received a major fillip with the introduction of a new coastal shipping service between the two neighboring nations.

The service, branded the Prantik Bangladesh India Xpress, or Prantik BIX, connects Kolkata to Chittagong, Bangladesh’s main cargo gateway.

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 11 Apr 2015 02:33

>> ??? its regular site as a field of conflict???

not really. the tribal population there isn't really ancient either. it appears they were originally living in southern china (yunan) from where they were forced to flee from han aggression and moved west to thiland/burma and then north to NE India. some groups went upto tibet but moved back south due to cold weather. still maintained trade relations with tibetans though.
most of these events took place within last 1000 years or thereabouts.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 11 Apr 2015 17:34

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/worl ... 888717.cms

Bangladesh is set to hang a top Islamist leader on Saturday for overseeing a massacre during the nation's 1971 independence war, officials said, after he refused to seek clemency from the president.

Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the third most senior figure in the Islamist opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party, is due to be executed on Saturday night after his hanging was postponed at the last minute.
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The United Nations on Wednesday urged Bangladesh against carrying out the sentence, saying his trial did not meet "fair international" standards.
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Kamaruzzaman was convicted of abduction, torture and mass murder, including a slaughter in a remote northern hamlet that has since become known as the "Village of Widows".

Prosecutors said he presided over the massacre of at least 120 unarmed farmers who were lined up and gunned down in the remote northern village of Sohagpur in the 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan.
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Three women who lost their husbands testified against him in one of the most emotive of all the war crimes trials.
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pankajs · Post by **pankajs** » 11 Apr 2015 21:22

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-ba ... ar-2076716
Bangladesh hangs top Jamaat leader convicted for mass killings in 1971 war

Top Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Quamaruzzaman was hanged on Saturday night for committing war crimes and mass killing during Bangladesh's 1971 independence war against Pakistan, days after he lost his final bid to overturn his death sentence. He was hanged at 10:01 PM local time, jail officials were quoted by local media reports as saying.

Quamaruzzaman, the third most influential leader in the Islamist party, was hanged late in the night after his execution was postponed at the last minute yesterday. Quamaruzzaman, 63, is the second Jamaat leader after Quader Mollah to be executed for 1971 war crimes.
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The apex court called his crimes "worse than Nazis" when it upheld the judgement of the ICT. About three million people were killed by the Pakistani army and their Bengali-speaking collaborators during the war.

Tuvaluan · Post by **Tuvaluan** » 12 Apr 2015 04:12

http://indianexpress.com/article/world/ ... execution/

As a true friend of all genocidal maniacs and islamist murderers, the US wants Bangladesh to not execute a man responsible for genocide. The more you know about the land of the free and the home of the brave....

She said countries that impose a death penalty “must do so with great care, in accordance with a very high standard of due process and respect for fair trial guarantees.”

Unless, of course, you are driving while wearing the wrong colour of skin in the USA, in which case, you can be taken out by the cops and shot for target practise.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 12 Apr 2015 11:29

They are US-Pak assets which are being liquidated - the good Islamists. Hence, the takleef.

Tuvaluan · Post by **Tuvaluan** » 12 Apr 2015 18:26

Supratik wrote:They are US-Pak assets which are being liquidated - the good Islamists. Hence, the takleef.

No doubt about that -- From the times of Kissinger/Nixon to Ex-US Amby Bill Milam was using Sarmila Bose to whitewash the genocide in Bangladesh less than a decade ago, and nothing has changed in the pro-genocide policy of the US except the people in the US State Dept. Which is why it is hard buy the BS being peddled by people who tout the "Blood Telegram" as proof that US policy w.r.t. supporting islamist murderers in Bangladesh has changed since. Nothing of that sort has happened clearly.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 13 Apr 2015 14:40

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/25-indian-fi ... 429-2.html

Dhaka: At least 25 Indian fishermen were detained by Bangladesh Navy for allegedly poaching into the country's waters.

The fishermen on two trawlers were detained 90 nautical miles off the coast of Bagerhat's Mongla sea port during a regular patrol, police said.

All of them hailed from South Chabbish Pargana District of West Bengal, police said, adding that a case had been filed against them.

panduranghari · Post by **panduranghari** » 13 Apr 2015 19:00

If Billary comes to power in US, Zia would in Bangladesh.

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 13 Apr 2015 21:07

Crimes of Jamaat e Islami and Pakistan Army are worse than ISIL. Even then, JeI is not banned in either Bangladesh or India.

Even if JeI was banned in Bangladesh alone, it was up for India to ban it just as well. However, neither Bangladesh nor India has apparently made any moves to ban JeI, even now.

As far as "international" situation is considered, it is shocking to see any support at all for genocidal barbarians.

Supratik · Post by **Supratik** » 13 Apr 2015 21:17

The JEI and various factions and offshoots of Jamaat are/were close allies of Congress since partition. The Congress tried to use them unsuccessfully against the ML but the ties have continued. Further, the Jamaat has been careful not to be engaged in violent activities in India. In Kashmir they showed their real face as the Hizbul are basically armed Jamaat cadres but they take care not to associate openly. I think they haven't been banned for lack of visible evidence of violent activities as an org. They have recently been banned in Bdesh (electoral?) for war crimes.

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 15 Apr 2015 16:37

Could be significant; not clear to me.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city ... 923736.cms

KOLKATA: After the successful commissioning of the offshore patrol vessel Barracuda into the Mauritian Coast Guard, Bangladesh is considering the possibility of ordering warships from India. The Barracuda was designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) Ltd in Kolkata. A few days ago, when Bangladesh Coast Guard director general Rear Admiral Mohammad Makbul Hossain visited Kolkata, he visited GRSE and interacted with chairman-cum-managing director Rear Admiral (retd) A K Verma.

"Ever since the Barracuda was delivered and commissioned in March this year, we have been receiving delegations from several countries. With the Bangladesh Coast Guard DG, we discussed the shipbuilding facilities available in Kolkata and our capabilities. We informed the delegation from Bangladesh how several advanced ships of the Indian Navy are being built at GRSE," Verma said later. Presently, GRSE is building Anti-Submarine Warfare Corvettes for the Navy.
Orders have also been placed for three stealth frigates under Project 17A. The shipyard is also among the five in the country shortlisted to build six conventional submarines under Project 75 (India). The Kolkata shipyard is also likely to build four patrol vessels for Vietnam as part of a $100 million credit line extended by India. The defence PSU is also competing with six companies to bag an order for two light frigates for the Philippines.

Defence experts believe that it will be a major event if Bangladesh places orders for ships from GRSE. This will reduce Bangladesh's reliance on China and Pakistan for military hardware. "Countries like Bangladesh don't have shipbuilding facilities of their own. They rely on other countries for ships and other military hardware. China has already made it clear that it is keen to extend support to countries in the Indian sub-continent. This is a matter of grave concern. Many of these countries would not have turned to China had India not behaved in such a ham-handed manner in the past. Countries like Myanmar had sought a credit line from India in the past in the form of military vessels. It turned towards China after India turned down the offer. Today, we are learning that it pays to make friends in the neighbourhood," one of them said.

In fact, Bangladesh has already used a ship built by GRSE. The first warship built in India was the INS Ajay. This was delivered to the Navy by GRSE in 1961. In 1974, the ship was gifted to Bangladesh after a major refit. There it was renamed BNS Surma.