Now that is the kind of language I like.Rahul M wrote:..would give us a chance to tie up many loose ends !
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Now that is the kind of language I like.Rahul M wrote:..would give us a chance to tie up many loose ends !
Rahul,Rahul M wrote:katare, no need to respond in the same tongue.
hate to see a respected BRFite posting about Indians raping and what not, even under provocation.
may I remind you of a cardinal law of the internet ?
Never wrestle with a pig, you get dirty - and the pig likes it.
OTOH, bd launching a frontal attack on us won't be such a bad thing. would give us a chance to tie up many loose ends !
A BSF jawan was on Wednesday killed and a farmer injured when Bangladesh Rifles opened fire on them at Mirsultanpur village on the border in West Bengal's Malda district.
BSF sources said a hail of bullets hit the 40-year-old border guard, Sudarshan K G, as the BDR resorted to unprovoked fire at 5.20 am as he went to the border to relieve himself.
The jawan of 123 battalion died of his wounds on the way to Malda Sadar Hospital.
District Magistrate of Malda, C R Das, said there was an exchange of fire between the border guards after the incident but the situation was under control and senior officers of police and BSF have rushed to the spot.
The farmer, who suffered a bullet injury in the knee while he was watering his land, has been admitted in the same hospital.
Two BDR personnel were killed on the Indo-Bangla border at Murshidabad district last week.
One hopes that now that the baggage of Left maotion off, they would do something more in the Eastern regions; if they care about the country and its armed forces, that is.kidoman wrote:Really sad news..Its high time that the Govt shows some spine..
New Delhi (PTI): Diversified conglomerate Tata Group has abandoned plans to invest USD three billion on power, steel and fertilizer projects in Bangladesh, after spending four tiring years trying to secure infrastructure support.
Tatas, who made global headlines with the acquisition of Anglo-Dutch steel maker Corus and British auto companies Jaguar and Land Rover, first took their investment proposal to Bangladesh in 2004.
As part of the formal investment blueprint submitted to Dhaka in April 2005, Tata Steel proposed to set up a 2.4 mtpa plant, Tata Chemicals a one million tonne urea plant and Tata Power a 1,000 MW thermal power plant at a combined cost of USD 2.5 billion - which was to be the single largest FDI inflow into Bangladesh since its independence in 1971.
The group had struck a provisional 15-year gas and coal supply agreement with the government, but Dhaka reneged on the commitment following a climate of political instability.
This had frustrated Tatas' investment plans to the point that the group was forced to suspend work on the projects.
"...the (Bangladesh) government will not be in a position, in the foreseeable future, to grant the projects the natural gas commitment they would require," Tata Group said in a statement here Thursdayy.
A letter to this effect was also handed over to the Executive Chairman Board of Investment of the Bangladesh Government, the statement added.
Tatas, however, clarified that the group has other interests in Bangladesh and it would continue to develop them.
Bangladesh business leaders have voiced disappointment that Indian industrial giant Tata Group is pulling out of a proposed $3bn investment programme. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry said other investors might be deterred. It would have been the single largest investment programme in the country.
The Tata projects, put on hold in 2006, would have almost equalled all foreign investment seen in Bangladesh since independence.
Annisul Huq, president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, feared Tata's decision might affect the country's image.
Appropriation of properties belonging to Hindus in Bangladesh challenged
Tue, 2008-08-12 07:04
Dhaka, 12 August, (Asiantribune.com): Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM), an NGO possessing special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, has by its Bangladesh Chapter‘s Secretary General Mr Rabindranath Trivedi, who is an ex additional secretary to the Government of Bangladesh, filed a writ petition to the High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on the complete abolishment of Vested Property Act.
It is alleged that interest groups of political parties in power and individuals by making use of this Vested Property Act, continue to appropriate property belonging to the Hindu community, and indeed to do so with the complicity of the authorities and the influential people.
The Vested Property Act represents a major source of insecurity and of human rights violation against the Hindu community. It is clear that the Vested Property Act (VPA) is detrimental to minorities and to the religious harmony of Bangladesh.
It may be recalled that VPA derives from the Enemy Property (Custody and Registration) Order II of 1965, promulgated in Pakistan following a brief war between India and Pakistan in September 1965. This order was directed against the Hindu minority (perceived as an enemy), and was used as an instrument for appropriating land belonging to Hindus accused of supporting India.
After Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan, President of Bangladesh in his Order No-29 of 1972 ,changed the nomenclature to Vested Property Act ,without altering the contain of the law.
The Government of Bangladesh has, within the framework of this law, taken possession of property declared to belong to the enemy, by appropriating the property of members of the Hindu minority who had migrated to India, or by appropriating the property of people who were heirs or co –owners.
It is learnt that the bench constituted with Justice Mr. Khademul Islam and Justice Mr Masuk Hossain Ahmed of High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, have received the writ petition for hearing.
Former Deputy Attorney General of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and a renowned lawyer Barrister Nikhilesh Dutta will move the writ case on behalf of the petitioner.
- Asian Tribune
Darn! I seem to have missed all the fun on this thread! And my good friend Sumit Bhai has been send to his 72 houris moreover.ShakilAnam wrote:
We Bengalis may not win the direct War, but we'll sustain long enough to bleed the Delhi Sultanate. Destroy all our infrastructure if you dare, and 140 million Bengalis would spread to every corner of India and set it on flames.
7) This illegal aggression is an unofficial declaration of war.
Claiming to something thats not theirs..Paki trait: CheckWe Bengalis went into war, with certain death in our minds, against the 1971 Pakistan Army, one of the largest in the world and more sophisticated than Indian army at the time
how dare you insult shakil by calling him joker.amit wrote:Nevermind one joker goes and another one pops up.
59 killed while illegally crossing India-Bangladesh border: BSF
August 25th, 2008 - 4:18 pm ICT by IANS - Email This Post Email This Post
Agartala, Aug 25 (IANS) As many as 59 people have been shot dead while trying to cross the India-Bangladesh border illegally during the past six months, a senior Border Security Force (BSF) official said here Monday.”Of the 59 people, 34 were Bangladeshi nationals and 21 Indians, while the others remain unidentified,” the official said after a routine meeting between the BSF and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in Dhaka.
In the three-day border conference, BSF director general Ashish Kumar Mitra headed the 19-member Indian team while his BDR counterpart Shakil Ahmed led the 22-member Bangladesh delegation.
Security officials from Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and West Bengal frontiers attended the meeting that concluded Sunday.
“BDR had handed over a list of 1,464 Bangladeshis hiding in India while BSF submitted a list of 263 wanted insurgents and criminals, including United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) leaders Paresh Barua and Anup Chetia and leaders of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF),” the official told reporters on condition of anonymity.
Bangladesh raised objections to India’s proposal to erect barbed wire fencing at 46 points, mostly along Tripura, claiming that it would violate the norms of erection of fencing within 150 yards from the border in those areas, the official added.
The BSF-BDR meeting also decided to launch joint border patrolling to check movement of insurgents, infiltration, various border crimes besides human trafficking and hold meetings at commandant- and company commander-levels every month to resolve local issues.
“The BSF chief told the meeting that the district administration of the concerned border districts have imposed night curfew in most areas along the border as ‘we do not want anyone to be killed’ in the frontiers,” the official added.
India and Bangladesh share a 4,096-km border, of which 2,979 kms cover land and 1,117 km are riverine.
India has so far erected barbed wire fencing along 2,600 km of its border with Bangladesh and decided to undertake flood lighting of the entire frontier stretch to check trans-border movement of militants, infiltration and border crimes.
Dubai, Sept 4 (UNI) A Bangladeshi worker in Kuwait has been arrested for smoking in violation of fasting rules during the holy month of Ramzan.
A report in the Al-Qabas daily said he has been referred to the concerned authorities.
Police were looking out for the man for consuming alcohol.
Police also held another youth for breaking fasting rules and driving under the influence of alcohol, another report said.
A woman who went to the police station to look for him fainted on learning that the youth was behind bars for drinking alcohol.
so now that the UN sets a deadline for maritime border demarcation bangladesh changes it's stubborn atttitude towards it's neighbours and is ready to negotiate.Friday 05 September, 2008
Bangladesh will hold talks with neighbouring India and Myanmar later this month to resolve the outstanding maritime boundary disputes as a UN set deadline for lodging maritime claims is set to expire in next three years.
Bangladesh foreign ministry officials said a eight-member delegation left for Yangon on Tuesday on a three-day meeting from Thursday and will hold talks with India in the third week of this month in Dhaka after a lapse of 28 years to discuss boundary issues.
"We are in the final stage of our preparation to put forward our claim to the United Nations and hope to conclude it very soon," additional foreign secretary MAK Mahmood, who leads the team, told reporters ahead of their departure on Tuesday.
Officials said Myanmar's Deputy foreign minister General Moung Myint would lead the home side in the third round of technical level discussions after its resumption in January.
Dhaka and Yangon earlier pledged to resolve disputes over their maritime borders in the quickest possible time as foreign affairs adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury held a meeting with his Myanmar counterpart Nyan Win in Singapore last month.
Bangladesh and Myanmar experts on sea-related issues met in Dhaka earlier this year and decided to hold another round of talks on the issue in Yangon this year to resolve the dispute.
Officials earlier said maritime border demarcation now appeared crucial as a UN set deadline for lodging maritime claims is to expire in next three years exposing Bangladesh to risks of losing a vast territory in the Bay of Bengal.
Bangladesh needs to lodge claims over its maritime boundary to the International Seabed Authority by 2011 as per the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) by 2011.
Under the convention Bangladesh was required to submit necessary documents to the UN to validate it claim of territorial water, Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) up to 200 nautical miles (nm) and continental shelf up to 350 nm from the baseline.
Bangladesh has decided to end offshore gas dispute with India and Myanmar through immediate talks as the two neighbours earlier this year raised objections against exploration by the country in several blocks bordering their maritime boundary.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indi ... 473447.cmsBangladesh building missile arsenal
Bangladesh is all set to build its own missile arsenal. The caretaker government in Dhaka is in the process of clinching a deal with an integrated European company MBDA for buying OTOMAT MK-II surface-to-air missiles and five launch systems. These missiles can carry a payload of 210 kg and can hit targets 180 km away.
In addition, highly-placed intelligence sources say, the Bangladesh Air Force is negotiating with Turkish arms dealer ASELSAN to buy Shorad (Short Range Air Defence) system and 3D air defence radars during the current financial year.
Bangladesh has already set up a missile launch pad near the Chittagong Port with assistance from China. Breaking protocol, it did not bother to inform India about its missile tests. Bangladesh's missile programme is a recent one. Its maiden missile test was conducted on May 12, with active participation of a group of Chinese experts. It successfully test-fired land attack anti-ship cruise missile C-802A with a strike range of 120 km from the frigate BNS Osman near Kutubdia Island in the Bay of Bengal.
The frigate, commissioned by the Bangladesh Navy in 1989, is a 1500-ton Chinese built Jianghu class warship, and the C-802A missile, according to experts, is a modified version of Chinese Ying Ji-802 (western version SACCADE) with weight reduced from 815-715 kg to increase strike range from 42-120 km. It is this enhanced strike radius that has left Indian security agencies worried.
The radar-equipped missile can carry a 165-kg warhead. Since its guidance equipment has strong anti-jamming capability, the ships it targets have a very low success rate in intercepting the missile. The hit probability of the Ying Ji-802 is rated as 98%. It can be launched from aircraft, ships, submarines and even land-based vehicles, and is considered to be at par with the US Harpoon, the best anti-ship missiles of the present day missile system.
Me thinks the Chinese will ensure the funds to needle India further since all these weapons cannot have a target other than India...anyway, who will pay for it ? we are talking about a country that is poorer than TSP and has no rich unkil.
B’desh too worried about HuJI: BDR
Tilak Rai Posted: Oct 11, 2008 at 0107 hrs IST
Dawki, October 10 Bangladesh is “gravely concerned” over the alleged involvement of Bangladesh-based Terror organisation HuJI in terror activities in India, and will jointly fight the terror outfit, said Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) chief Major General Shakil Ahmed.
Ahmed met BSF Inspector General P K Misra at the Dawki-Tambil border outpost in eastern Meghalaya on Thursday and exchanged greetings on Vijaya Dashami.
“Both sides will have to work together to fight terrorism and insurgents in the common interest of peace and security,” said Ahmed. He added that Bangladesh was also a victim of the HuJI and would do everything to stamp out the menace.
Underlining Bangladesh's commitment to fighting terrorism he said, “We have already been cooperating with BSF by sharing intelligence related to cross border terrorism activities.” He stressed the need for joint efforts between the BSF and BDR to deal with all cross-border criminal activities, adding that much progress in fighting criminal activities had been made after the two countries decided to jointly patrol the border.
On charges that Bangladesh was habouring India-based insurgent groups, Ahmed said Bangladesh “does not and will not” allow any criminals to function from within its soil. “Recently, we (Bangladesh) handed over 18 criminals at Akhura checkpost and four criminals from across Mymensingh district to India,” he said.
Regarding India's request to deport detained ULFA general secretary Anup Chetia, wanted for several murder cases, Ahmed said Chetia had approached the Dhaka Court pleading for political asylum in Bangladesh claiming that he was a “freedom fighter”. He, however, said deportation of Chetia has been on the agenda at every discussion between India and Bangladesh.
Bangladeshis are worried now of US attacking India!We are afraid if India is also going to face the same situation like Pakistan in future when US President George Bush has already got an agreement on US nuclear energy aid to India.
Three Bangladeshi nationals held
Shillong | Sunday, Oct 12 2008 IST
Meghalaya police arrested three Bangladeshi nationals and seized fake identity cards from their possession, police said today.
The trio - Md Mayser Haque, Md Fakar Uddin Ali and Hasen Ali - were arrested from Laban area.
Police have produced them in court.
In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, Ali Ahsan Mojaheed, general secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a powerful political party that sided with Pakistan in 1971, thinks it's better to close the book on a tragic chapter in history rather than risk opening old wounds. After all, many who supported unity with Pakistan were also killed in reprisal attacks. "This is a dead issue," says Mojaheed. "It cannot be raised