India gives Bangladesh list of terrorist suspects

October 1st, 2009 DHAKA - The Indian envoy to Bangladesh has offered to reduce the number of negative items on the bilateral trade list to facilitate commerce between the two neighbours. High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty has also mooted joint investments to boost bilateral trade between the two South Asian countries to offset the trade balance that is at present heavily tilted in New Delhi's favour.

July 30th, 2009 DHAKA - Islamic militancy is showing new signs of life in Bangladesh despite crackdowns. According to a Christian Science Monitor (CSM) report, terrorist groups are showing a persistence and resilience that has left local authorities worried.

July 24th, 2009 DHAKA - China is a victim of terrorism like Bangladesh and India and wants to join the UN-led campaign against terror, a Chinese diplomat has said. Chinese special envoy Zhou Gang met the Bangladeshi leadership Thursday to brief them of the developments in China's Xinjiang province that recently witnessed protests by the Uighur community.

July 15th, 2009 DHAKA - India has proposed coordinated patrolling of its border with Bangladesh to curb trespassers who cross over at night, leading to many of them being shot by the Border Security Force (BSF) - the bone of contention at talks between the top brass of the border guards of the two countries. The killing this year of 64 unarmed civilians, as Bangladesh puts it, has become a sensitive issue between the two neighbours, who Tuesday ended their bi-annual consultations between top officials of the BSF and the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR).

June 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON/DHAKA - Several newspaper reports across South Asia have claimed that Bangladesh is emerging as the haven of choice for South Asian terror operatives, and that there stay is being facilitated by both Bangladeshi and Pakistani intelligence services. According to the Christian Science Monitor (CSM), in recent days, Bangladeshi police have uncovered a plot that used Bangladesh to transit thousands of weapons to an Indian separatist group, and followed up by arresting key members of that group in Dhaka.

June 14th, 2009 DHAKA - A senior State Department official Sunday renewed US government's promise to help Bangladesh protect itself from possible terrorist threats. "We are here to help you to protect your people from those who wish to destabilise your democracy through terrorism and extremism," Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert O.

May 3rd, 2009 DHAKA - The US government believes that Islamist militancy is still a major concern in Bangladesh, the US ambassador in Dhaka said Sunday. 'We do have disturbing indications.

April 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bangladesh Air Force chief Air Marshal S.M. Ziaur Rehman arrived here Thursday on a five-day official visit to India.

April 8th, 2009 RIYADH - Eleven suspected members Al Qaeda terrorist network were arrested by security officials in Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry announced Tuesday. The terrorist cell was held during a special opereation on the kingdom's southern border with Yemen.

March 10th, 2009 KARACHI - Pakistan may play a shortened cricket series in Bangladesh later this season because of rescheduling problems. According to sources, there is a possibility that the one-day series between Pakistan and Bangladesh which was originally supposed to have five one-day internationals and two Twenty20s might be compressed to just three ODIs and a solitary T20 game.

March 9th, 2009 KOLKATA - Kolkata Police Sunday claimed that a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) linkman has formed a terrorist outfit in Bangladesh to operate in bordering Indian states. Abu Taher, an alleged associate of the Pakistan-based LeT formed Tanzeem-e-Mohammadi in Bangladesh, police sources said here.

February 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI/KOLKATA - India and Bangladesh continued their first joint military exercise in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district Thursday amid reports that the mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troopers, which saw the killing of at least 50 people, spread beyond Dhaka. 'The Indian Army, Air Force and Bangladesh Army have been participating in the exercise to test their battlefield tactics since Feb 22.

February 26th, 2009 AGARTALA - India put its eastern borders on high alert Wednesday after a mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) left many people dead and several injured, an official said. Senior officials of the Border Security Force (BSF) rushed to the frontier along Bangladesh, BSF spokesman A.K.

January 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India is ready to look at lowering further the number of items in the negative list for trade with least developed countries (LDCs) such as Bangladesh, a senior commerce ministry official said here Friday. 'We have already reduced the negative list from 765 to 480 items.

January 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani has congratulated Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina on her party's landslide victory in the recent polls and praised her for her statement against allowing Bangladesh to be used for anti-India terror activities.