Bangladesh leader’s ‘megaphone diplomacy’ irks India
The relationship between neighbours India and Bangladesh continues to remain frosty more than a month after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted from power. While Hasina’s stay in India remains an irritant, a recent interview by Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus also took India by surprise. The BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan examines where ties stand now.
Sheikh Hasina was seen as pro-India and the two countries enjoyed close strategic and economic ties during her year rule. Her time in power was also beneficial for India’s security, as she cracked down on some anti-India insurgent groups operating from her country and settled some border disputes.
But her presence in India, with no clarity on how long she will stay, complicates the two countries’ efforts to maintain a strong relationship.
That was made clearer last week when, in an interview with news agency Press Trust of India, Yunus urged India to stop Hasina from making any political statements while staying in Delhi.
“If India wants to keep her until the time Bangladesh wants her back, the condition would be that she has to keep
India preacher denies blame for crush deaths
The crush took place in Pulrai village, where Bhole Baba was holding a religious gathering.
An initial police report said that officials had given permission for 80, people to gather, but some , people turned up to the event.
The report says the chaos began as the preacher drove off. Eyewitnesses said people lost their footing and started falling on top of each other as hundreds rushed towards the preacher as he was leaving the venue.
As people ran after his vehicle, survivors said a number of those sitting and squatting on the ground got crushed.
One of the first on the scene, local resident Yogesh Yadav, told the BBC that hundreds of women ran after Bhole Baba's car as he was leaving.
“Some crossed the highway to get a better glimpse of his car. In the melee, many women fell in the drain adjacent to the highway. People started falling on top of each other,” Mr Yadav said.
The police document added that some people tried to cross the road to a patch of mud-soaked fields, but were forcibly stopped by the organisers and were crushed.
Sri Lanka attacks: The family networks behind the bombings
BBC News, Sri Lanka
For many Sri Lankans, it was a horrific shock to learn that local Muslims could have been behind the suicide attacks that killed more than people last month. How could a small group have planned such a devastating wave of bombings undetected?
The clues were there in mid-January, when Sri Lankan police stumbled upon kg (lb) of explosives and detonators, hidden in a coconut grove near the Wilpattu national park, which is a remote wilderness in Puttalam district on the west coast of the country.
Police were investigating attacks on statues of the Buddha by suspected Islamist radicals elsewhere in the country. Four men from a newly formed "radical Muslim group" were arrested.
Three months later, suspected Islamists blew themselves up in packed churches and hotels in Colombo, Negombo and the eastern city of Batticaloa killing more than people, including 40 foreigners.
But that arms seizure in the coconut grove was not an isolated incident. It was just one of several suspicious incidents
'Can't afford rice' quote lands journalist in jail
The report for which Mr Shams was detained featured ordinary Bangladeshis talking about their lives on Independence Day.
One quotation was from a labourer who asked: "What is the use of this freedom if we can't afford rice?"
The comment was seen to reflect growing worries about escalating food prices, which have soared around the world since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The Prothom Alo article was shared by large numbers of people. When the paper posted the report on Facebook, it used a wrong photo of a person.
"Once we realised the error, we immediately pulled it down and issued a clarification under the (amended) report," Sajjad Sharif, the paper's executive editor, told the BBC.
"But we stand by the original report. The quote of the labourer on the food price was genuine," he said.
But supporters of the governing Awami League accused the daily of fabricating quotes and tarnishing the image of the country.
Police have also launched an investigation against its editor, Matiur Rahman, as well as a video journalist from the newspaper and several other people
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