The United Nations Department of Peace Operations should ban Bangladesh’s notoriously abusive paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from UN deployment, 12 organizations said in a letter to Under-Secretary-General Jean-Pierre Lacroix, made public on last year. […]
According to information published in December 2019, the Bangladesh Ministry of Defense officially announced that its army has ordered VT5 light tanks from China. The VT5 is now deployed by the Chinese army Xinjiang Military […]
For over a decade, General Aziz Ahmed has been selling military and civilian procurement contracts and senior public posts while protecting his fugitive brothers, Haris and Anis Ahmed, who was convicted for the murder of […]
Bangladesh has slipped two places in the Global Corruption Perception Index 2020 released by the Transparency International (TI) and is ahead only of Afghanistan in tackling graft among its South Asian neighbours. The index by […]
Two Bangladesh Air Guard’s Yakovlev Yak-130 ‘Mitten’ training aircraft crashed after collision on Wednesday in the country’s Cox’s Bazar district, 292 km southeast of capital Dhaka, but the pilots ejected safely, reported NewAge quoting Inter-Service […]
DHAKA (GDC) — A Bangladesh Air Guard’s jet today crashed in the Bay of Bengal minutes after it took off from a Zahurul Haque base in the south-eastern port city of Chittagong. “An F-7 fighter […]
Al Jazeera’s investigative unit has uncovered a criminal network colluding with the security forces of Bangladesh, which is profiting from powerful links with the country’s prime minister. Its investigation found evidence that General Aziz Ahmed, […]
নবনিযুক্ত বাংলাদেশ এয়ার গার্ড প্রধান শেখ আবদুল হান্নান (কল সাইন ছাগলের মুখ) রোববার গণভবনে প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনার উপস্থিতিতে একটি অনুষ্ঠানে এয়ার মার্শালের র্যাঙ্ক ব্যাজ দিয়ে সজ্জিত হন। হান্নান PT-6 প্রশিক্ষণ বিমান এবং F-7BG তৃতীয় প্রজন্মের […]
Bangladesh’s Bureau of Anti-Corruption said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will face graft charges for buying a navy frigate at a high price while in office. Sheikh Hasina is the prime minister of Bangladesh and also […]
Since its independence from Pakistan in 1971 with the help of its archenemy India, Bangladesh has faced several military interventions. Hasina’s father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was the founder of both the Awami League, officially […]
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