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September 13, 2024
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Will Modi meet Yunus amid ‘highly sensitive’ India-Bangladesh ties over Hasina ousting?
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears unwilling to meet Muhammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh’s interim government, due to a reluctance to discuss difficult issues such as the extradition of ousted leader Sheikh Hasina, analysts say.
Red Cross pushes for aid corridors into war-torn Myanmar
BANGKOK — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is in talks with Myanmar's ruling junta, its armed opponents and its neighbours to provide cross-border humanitarian assistance into the war-torn country, its chief said on Wednesday (Sept 11).
Hasina gone, but fate of Bangladesh’s forcibly disappeared uncertain
Only three of more than 150 persons who went missing during Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule have been reunited with their families.
Bangladesh taking steps to extradite former PM Hasina from India
International Crimes Tribunal says it will start the process to bring expelled leader back to answer for ‘massacres’.
Citing ‘massacres’, Bangladesh seeks Sheikh Hasina’s extradition from India
Weeks of student-led demonstrations in Bangladesh escalated into mass protests last month, with Hasina quitting as prime minister and fleeing by helicopter to old ally India on August 5, ending her iron-fisted 15-year rule.
India faces pressure from Bangladesh to extradite Sheikh Hasina over her ‘atrocities’
Hasina fled to India by helicopter on August 5 as student-led protests toppled her 15-year rule marked by widespread accusations of election rigging to maintain her hold on power and human rights violations such as extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances.