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The students took shelter at the vice-chancellor's residence after breaking its lock. [163] Around 300 Chhatra League members, armed with galvanized pipes and sticks, threw bricks and glass bottles at the students. Shots were reportedly fired, injuring two journalists, including one from Dhaka Tribune and over 50 student protesters. [164]
The Ashrayan Project was established in 1997 by the Bangladesh Awami League government to be responsible for building homes for the homeless. In 2018, the project announced plans to complete 139 multilevel buildings in Cox's Bazar for 250-thousand homeless families by 2019.
Bangladesh-India bilateral trade was over US$10 billion in 2018–19. [50] [51] Bilateral trade between India and Bangladesh stood at US$6.6 billion in 2013–14 with India's exports at US$6.1 billion and imports from Bangladesh at US$462 million, representing more than double the value of US$2.7 billion five years ago. [52]
During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, India provided extensive aid, training and shelter for the exiled government of Bangladesh and Bengali nationalist Mukti Bahini guerrilla force that was fighting the Pakistani Army. Between 8 and 10 million refugees poured into India during 1971, increasing tensions between India and Pakistan. [1]
The Government of Bangladesh planned to construct a total of 1,440 buildings, including 120 cyclone shelters, to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees from the mainland camps of Cox's Bazar. [7] The Government of Bangladesh first suggested resettling Rohingya refugees on the island in June 2015. [ 8 ]
Dhaka Post (Bengali: ঢাকা পোস্ট) is a Bengali and English language online news portal in Bangladesh.Launched on 16 February 2021, As of December 2021, Alexa ranked the website 3,479 worldwide and sixth in Bangladesh [1] which is the second among the News websites and first position Internet-based newspaper in Bangladesh.
That year, Indians working in Bangladesh sent more than $3.7 billion back to India. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] An op-ed article in The Daily Star claims that this is the official figure. In contrast, the unofficial figure is estimated to be significantly more [ 7 ] and the article claims that most of them came on tourist visas and tended to stay back.
The Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranay Kumar Verma, claimed that the Dumbur dam in India opened automatically, not intentionally. [28] Bangladesh Nationalist Party Standing Committee member Hafizuddin Ahmed said that "India, by unjustly constructing dams on common rivers, has obstructed the natural flow of water. This, he argues, is ...