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United Nations To Evict Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) From Peacekeeping Mission For Human Rights Violation
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. […]
Land Platform
China’s Norinco delivers first batch of VT5 light tanks to Bangladesh
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 […]
South Asia
General Aziz Ahmed, A Bangladeshi Scumbag
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 […]
South Asia
Why does Bangladeshi press silent about Bangladesh military’s corruption?
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 […]
South Asia
Bangladesh Air Guard’s Yak-130 Training Aircraft Crashed in Cox Bazar District
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 […]
Air Platform
Russia to Deliver 2 Mi-171A2 helicopters to Bangladesh Police
Russian Helicopters Holding, a subsidiary of state-owned Rostec has agreed to supply two Mi-171A2 helicopters to Bangladesh Police. Delivery of rotorcraft to the customer is scheduled for the first quarter of 2023. In 2018, the […]
South Asia
Bangladesh’s China-made F-7MB Fighter Jet Crashes In Bay of Bengal
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 […]
South Asia
Thales Modernizes Bangladesh’s Air Traffic Management Infrastructure
The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) signed an agreement with Thales to modernize the country’s Air Traffic Management (ATM) system, Thales announced in a press release. The contract was signed between CAAB and Thales on […]
South Asia
Bangladesh Army Operates 60 Illegal Casinos and Money Laundering Dens in Dhaka
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, […]