Prosperity and Poverty coexist with India's caste system
Indian American families have an average income of $61,322
Palash Biswas
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We colonise ourselves and the cruling comradors may feel more inspired with newsbreak that Indian American families have an average income of $61,322!
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After all, India's widespread poverty and its caste system, though not the all-determining forces they once were, still make social boundaries hard to crack. Harder, perhaps, than breaking a world record.
India is a country with complex paradoxes where prosperity and poverty coexist, hence it is not possible to evaluate it under any yardstick, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said on Tuesday.
"India is a complex country with far reaching paradoxes. It is a country which on the one hand is growing at 9 per cent, and on the other hand there are about 300 million people who are surviving on less than a dollar a day," Kamal Nath told a conference while releasing the 'Economic Freedom of the World Report 2007'.
India's stood at position 69, beating China and other immediate neighbouring countries among others. The report compared the level of economic freedom in 141 countries on the basis of policies and institutions that support economic freedom.
"The main challenge today is how to bring in the fruits of economic benefit to the lowest strata of society. The need of the hour is equitable growth and this issue needs to be addressed not only by the government but also by managers and CEOs," the minister said.
Thousands of devotees thronged to the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in the Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday to offer prayers for Mother Teresa on the tenth anniversary of her death.The doors of Mother House, where the ethnic Albanian nun lived and died, were thrown open at dawn and hundreds of slum dwellers from the city walked in.Holding candles, they knelt before Mother Teresa's tomb in one of the sprawling halls of the building and prayed as nuns clad in traditional white saris with blue borders joined them.Mother Teresa made Kolkata her home and opened several homes, including one for those who were old and dying and the other for destitute children. On the other hand,a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has highlighted the linkage between poverty and labour productivity.According to the report, entitled "Key Indicators of the Labour Market," limited investment in training and skills is diminishing opportunities to lift people out of poverty.The ILO is chaired by South Africa's Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana.
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DANOGRAM, India (AFP) — An Indian woman whose claimed miracle cure from cancer led to Mother Teresa being thrust toward sainthood has accused Catholic nuns ...
Woman Cured By Mother Teresa, Now Lives In Poverty AHN
Carol Towarnicky | MOTHER TERESA: HUMAN AFTER ALL? Philadelphia Daily News
The India-Bangladesh agreement on exchange of actionable intelligence pertaining to militant activity signed last month faces its first test following last week's blasts in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, media reports here said. Meanwhile, Dhaka yet to receive Indian request for info on Hyderabard blast.A suspect in Hyderabad blasts is understood to have revealed during the narco-analysis test that three foreign nationals involved in planning and executing the terror strikes were still in the city. Syed Imran Khan, an executive in a private bank who underwent a narco-test in Bangalore on Tuesday, however, denied having planted the bombs in the city, police sources said.
One in eight persons living in the world's richest nation is considered poor, but then in America, the official poverty level for a family of four with two children is $20,444 (over Rs 800,000) per annum. Indian American families have an average income of $61,322. The latest figures did not indicate how the more than 2.15 million people of Indian origin in America fared.Official figures released by the Census Bureau suggest the share of Americans living in poverty has finally dropped after five years to 12.3 per cent in 2006, from 12.6 per cent a year ago, as median household income increased slightly to $48,200.
A leading US-India business body has lauded the renewal of talks at the World Trade Organisation and urged all WTO members to support a successful conclusion to achieve a meaningful Doha agreement while saying that India's leadership will be necessary for it.
"Negotiations will be based on draft agricultural and non-agricultural market access (NAMA) texts released on July 17, 2007," the US-India Business Council (USIBC) said in a statement.
"USIBC applauds the work of the WTO agricultural and NAMA committees, recognising that negotiations in those two sectors are key to the successful conclusion of the Doha Round, and supports the US, India and other members in their pursuit of ambitious results in all modalities, including non-tariff barriers, services, and intellectual property protections," it said.
The business body is also preparing to rally industry support for the renewal of negotiations.
While poverty in Israel was held in check last year, statistics released yesterday by the National Insurance Institute show more working people now live below the poverty line. Overall, 1.65 million people in Israel live below the poverty line, the 2006 Poverty Report shows. The figures suggest that poverty is being contained and possibly even reversed. According to the comprehensive poverty report published Tuesday by the National Insurance Institute, the number of poor Jewish families dropped from 16 percent in the years 2004 and 2005 to 14.7 percent last year, and their numbers have dropped by some 15,000. At the same time the level of poverty among Arab families rose from 50 percent to 54 percent, and the number of poor Arab families grew by 20,000.
Jews are leaving poverty behind, while Arabs are sinking deeper. Three years ago Arab families comprised some 31 percent of the overall Advertisement
poor families in Israel, while last year their proportion rose to 36 percent.
In the overall count of poor people the findings are even more extreme: The percentage of Arab citizens is nearing 50 percent of the overall poor population in Israel as opposed to 40 percent in 2004. This is the outcome of demographics: The poor Arab family comprises more than five members: The Jewish family comprises more than three members.
The growth in Arab poverty is reflected in the growth of poverty among children: A poor Arab family has an average of 2.7 children whereas a poor Jewish family only has 1.4 children. Therefore the higher the proportion of Arabs among the poor, poverty among the children of the State of Israel increases.
In 2004 there were some 714,000 poor children in Israel, 335,000 of whom were Arab children – 47 percent. In 2006 there were some 800,000 poor children, of which 420,000 were poor Arab children – 52 percent.
In the past three years the number of poor Arab children leaped by 25 percent whereas the number of Jewish children from families living beneath the poverty line dropped somewhat. Two out of every ten Jewish children live in families whose net income is lower than the poverty line. Six out of every ten Arab children live in poor families.
Khan, who is among the 15 persons against whom Andhra Pradesh police booked in a criminal conspiracy case, also told the investigators that he had stored a consignment of 10 kgs of RDX in his house before passing it on to other contacts in the city, the sources said.
Another suspect Kaleem alias Rafiq was on Wednesday subjected to a three-hour narco-analysis test by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Bangalore during he "made a lot revelations which cannot be disclosed at this point of time as it would hamper investigation into this grave issue which has national repercussions," Dr B M Mohan, Director FSL said.
Imran and Rafiq were taken to Bangalore on Tuesday for narco-tests. Both were arrested in connection with the May 18 blasts at Mecca Masjid and the smuggling of RDX from Bangladesh into the city in February this year.
Asked whether Dhaka was requested by New Delhi for assistance during the meeting of home secretaries of the two countries, Bangladesh's Acting Foreign Secretary Mohammed Tauhid Hussain was quoted as saying by a newspaper, "Yes, but that was back then".
Though Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said New Delhi had contacted Dhaka over the blasts, Bangladesh Tuesday night denied that any request for assistance from India had been received.
Mukherjee had said in New Delhi Tuesday that India had sought the assistance of Bangladesh during the home-secretary level meeting in Delhi in the first week of August to capture those allegedly responsible for a spate of bomb blasts in India.
The Indian request could lead to "the first test for the new agreement", a news daily said.
Dhaka has denied involvement of any of its nationals or the use of its territory for terror acts in India.
The foreign ministry termed Indian media reports as "disturbing and clearly motivated" and said sensationalism of the kind would "undermine" friendly relations between the two neighbours.
Regarding the reported arrest of Mohammed Sharifuddin alias Abu Hamza alias Kanchan, Hussain told a news daily Tuesday night, "The home ministry has informed me that no one by that name [Mohammad Sharifuddin] has been arrested here."
The foreign office had earlier indicated that it would lodge a protest with India.
Denying the Indian claim of having made the requests, a foreign ministry press release Tuesday stated, "So far, Bangladesh has not received any request for information in connection with the Hyderabad blasts."
The Indian media had Tuesday quoted India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Vijay Shanker as saying that they had received information that Bangladesh had arrested Mohammed Sharifuddin, who also goes by the aliases Abu Hamza and Kanchan.
French President Jacques Chirac said after her death: "This evening, there is less love, less compassion, less light in the world."
Ten years ago on this day, Mother Teresa, the saint of gutter left this world. She began her journey from Albania to India after realizing that God wants her to serve the people, who are poor and neglected by their relatives and loved ones. She would feel extreme pleasure in serving those people as she is serving to God.
Mother Teresa was beatified in 2003 by Pope John Paul II and millions of people want her to be elevated to sainthood.
Born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on Aug 26, 1910, in Albania, she had left home to join other nuns in Kolkata. She became Sister Teresa, and spent 17 years in teaching. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was sent to Darjeeling for rehabilitation and during her journey she heard the message of God to serve poor and follow them to slums. After getting permission from Pope Pius xii, she went for a medical training to prepare herself for the new mission. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity for the destitute and become Mother Teresa, followed by establishing ‘Nirmal Hridaya’, a Charity Missionaries for dying destitute.
She served the destitute and helpless with full devotion and eternal spirit. Her services to the unwanted, leprosy patients, AIDS patients, and orphans got appreciation her and she won Noble Peace Prize for her endeavour. While receiving the Noble prize in 1979, mother expressed, “I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive the Nobel in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."
She travelled world wide to unite the world. Once she said, "The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven....And St. Peter said, ‘Go back to Earth’, there are no slums up here.”
People from different faith gathered in different parts of the world to remember her every year.
Her tomb at the Missionary of Charity was flocked by different section of society.
"Our expectation is that she be soon declared a saint because she was living as a saint and she lives as a saint in heaven," said Lucus Sircar city’s archbishop during the prayer.
"Productivity is the cornerstone for poverty alleviation," Lawrence Jeff Johnson, ILO's Chief of the Employment Trends Team, said at a press briefing of the report at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Although productivity in East Asia has doubled in the last 10 years, the United States remains the global leader by a considerable amount in terms of labour productivity per person employed in 2006, the report noted.
South Asia, Central and South-Eastern Europe (non-European Union countries) and the Commonwealth of Independent States have all seen their productivity rise in recent years.
In South and East Asia, Mr Johnson pointed out that the ILO has seen a marked decrease in the "working poor," which he defined as "those individuals that are working but are unable to earn at least $2 a day for themselves and for their families."
However, the situation is different in sub-Saharan Africa, where there has been only "moderate" growth in productivity, he said.
If Iran fails to resolve its nuclear dispute by the end of the year, it may be passing by its last chance to do so, the UN atomic energy agency head said in an interview on Monday. However, the IAEA chief urged international players to "encourage" Iran to cooperate.
"By November, or December at the latest, we should be able to state whether the Iranians are keeping their promises. If they don't keep them, Tehran will have passed by an important chance, perhaps the last," Mohamed ElBaradei, the International Atomic Energy Agency head, told weekly Der Spiegel.
Germany announced on Wednesday the arrest of three people on suspicion of planning "imminent" terror attacks, with Frankfurt airport and the giant US military base in Ramstein among the reported targets. Confirming the arrests on German television, Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung stressed there had been "an imminent threat". SWR public radio reported that the suspects had been planning to bomb Frankfurt airport, one of Europe's busiest, and Ramstein in western Germany, the headquarters of US Air Forces in Europe and a key staging post for US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Several people suspected of preparing an act of terrorism were arrested early Tuesday in Denmark, the Danish police intelligence services (PET) said. Denmark's intelligence service said it thwarted a bomb plot when anti-terror squads rounded up eight Islamic militants with alleged links to senior Al-Qaida terrorists. The pre-dawn raids sent jitters through a country that stirred Muslim anger and deadly protests last year after a newspaper printed 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
REF : Terrorists New Attack on Communal Harmony in India
Tuesday September 04 2007 16:57:22 PM BDT
Captain Johann, India
The author is one of those Secular minded Muslims of India but he does more harm to SECULARISM by avoiding TRUTH. The truth is HUJI WHICH HAS ROOTS IN bANGLADESH/PAKISTAN AND iNDIA is the cause for the Twin blasts in Mecca masjid and also the eateries two months later.
A person who was arrested for Mecca masjid blasts and released on bail due to political pressure has been rearrested after his involvement in the second blast is found!!What a shame.bOTH BLASTS ARE CORDINATED BY AN iNDIAN huji MEMBER named Bilal who stays in Karachi and gives directions through ISI.The voting rights which is given to every citizen in India is misused by MIM(an organisation of fundemtalist Muslims in Hyderabad)which has got 3 MLAs in the assembly.This organisation recetly tried to kill Taslima Nusreen a Bangladeshi author because her book is Proscribed in Bangladesh!!!They cannot understand that they are living in secular democratic India but try to behave as if they are still lving under the r ule of Nizam caliphate and justify their VIOLENCE as if it is sanctified in ISLAM!!!.Shri TANVIR JAFFRI must tell the truth.
Captain Johann
Bangalore
India
A letter from India
Tuesday September 04 2007 16:46:03 PM BDT
Wilfred Joseph, India
I am a regular reader of your website for some time to know about the perspective of Bangladeshi media towards my country. I found a group of people are constantly and purposefully trying to make India ,a cruel, brutal 'friend' of your country ,through your web site every day by making lot of letters,articles,etc.
It is also noticed that each and every news about my country if it is shamefull,you will put it in your web site.May I know the reason, please?
You know,in South Asia ,Bangladesh is emerged as a safe Heaven for Islamic terrorists besides Pakistan.The latest bombing in Hyderabad shows it well.You know illegal migration from Bangladesh changes ethnic balance of some of our eastern states permanently?
Now lot of readers of your site believes that India deliberately divided former east Pakistan and some prefer to believe that India did nothing in the Bangladesh liberation struggle in 1971.What common to these people that they are against India.
You are doing a shameful work. By publishing anti-india articles and news on your site, that you are misleading common people against India and also allows terrorists to recruit people on the basis of anti India propaganda.
In bangladesh,when every disaster happens, including the natural calamity, you are usually try to point the finger against 'outside hands’, translated as 'India' .
Who is Prof.Mainul? And who is Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal,India ?Both are using the same tone. Are they same?
Any way I didn’t found any scholar in that name at JNU.
Try to make your site ,an island of friendship b/w our nations
Regards
Wilfred Joseph
India
E mail : wilfred_joseph@hotmail.com
Colorless US-led anti-Islamic terror
Tuesday September 04 2007 17:07:31 PM BDT
DR.ABDUL RUFF Colachal, India
Those who are under the impression that the USA-led forces are detaining and torturing only the Gulf Muslims as well as those who are in the West should correct that impression immediately. The US terrible terror war is all pervasive and intercontinental. US forces don’t distinguish between Muslims across the continents, regions and countries.US terror is colorless, clueless and aimed exclusively at Muslims irrespective of the fact if they sport beards or clean-shaven, whether they are tall or short, children and old people. Like Indian Muslims who under Indian custody for years, every country in the world is sure to have some Muslims detained and being tortured under the instructions from US HQ.
(Only Abdul Nasser Madani has been released after torturing him in jails for nearly a decade and no compensation or or rewards have been announced either by the federal government in Delhi or by State governments of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, while many people enjoy life by governing the country or state just because some of them were in jail for a few days, that too by enjoying first class treatment including imported liquor supplied there) But arrests and torture of the "suspected terrorists" have not stopped any where in India. Can any Hindu be detained in Indian jails for a decade without committing a crime? Whole "secular" India would have risen up to demolish all mosques in the country as a mark of protest against "appeasement of Muslims". That is the whole story of madness in India now. Consider now the plight of African Muslims under serious threat because they are"Islamists".!
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2007-09-05&hidType=OPT&hidRecord=0000000000000000170253
Appeasement of Muslims in India
Wednesday September 05 2007 22:56:42 PM BDT
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal, India
USA always talks at length about democracy and rule of law. The anti-Islamic, global terrorist USA has emerged the virtual HQ of the global anti-Islamic forces and anti-Muslim terrorists from the world over to congregate and slam Islam and plan attacks of Muslims the way they want, seemingly with guidance and full protection of US administration.
It is no more a secret that both the Central and state governments in India, irrespective of the slogan of the ruling dispensation, have covertly supported the Hindutva forces and worked against the genuine and legitimate interests of Muslims. Demolition of the Grand Babri Mosque and the recent arrests of Muslims under the pretext of the so-called “terrorism” etc stand scrutiny of the Indian mind-set about and hidden agenda for Muslims in the country.
Over years of Independence it has become a great joke to hear from the anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim forces-cum-terrorists their favorite expressions like “appeasement of Muslims”, “Muslims eating Indian resources” etc. Recent anti-Islamic outcry in USA by S. Swamy, a former foreign minister when “socialist” Chandrasekhar managed the prime-minister’s post with the help of the Congress party by ousting the Janata Dal government at the centre, is indeed a national shame. Swamy slammed Islam and Indian Muslims for thriving at the cost of Hindus can generate enough laughter even in the USA, the foremost anti-Islamic center of the globe today. A person, who was taken for a senior diplomat to be sent around the world to meet leaders, Swamy then probably spread poisonous gases around the world against Muslims.
Swany stated that Indian Muslims are sent to Makkah for performing Holy Hajj with Hindus bearing the costs. One does not know if these Muslims who go for Hajj pilgrimage are being paid from the Hindu pockets, as Swamy claimed in the USA. Saudi Government that permits the pilgrims to perform Hajj could ascertain if the resources used by the pilgrims are "Halaal" and not sacred Pillar of Islam, Hajj would be an insult to God and the very institution of Hajj. Indian Muslims seem to have taken the religious rituals as a matter of Joke.
It is a known fact that with CIA connections once Swamy could come to India during infamous “emergency” (declared by the then Congress government) and enter Parliament secretly to sign the attendance registers to evade expulsion from Parliament for not attending sessions for a specific period. Those days the expressions like terrorism were not in vogue, but rogue was in coin. If a Muslim had done it, that would have amounted to anti-nationalism, a serious crime, but a Hindu in India is different, you know. Swamy became a hero. He now alleges that Indian government appeases Muslims in all possible ways. His claim that government makes the Hindus pay for Hajj journey performed Muslims could be dismissed as dirty tricks and absurd, but a former foreign minister making such irresponsible statements in the USA only to appease the Americans and foreign Indians is shocking , they’re not in good taste.
Swamy has enjoyed the fruits in many a capacity in the country and might feel still disappointed that he was not made prime-minister and this anti-Muslim strategy could bring to that chair with the help of saffron minded Indian network plus the CIA. Swamy meant to give a call to Hindus to finish off Muslims and, conversely, make India a Hindutva nation at any cost. He has forgotten that he has also traveled the Arab world as Indian foreign minister and also got their support for Indian causes. It is because of the cowardice of people like Swamy that the Arabs, who distinguish between Arab Muslims and other Muslims, think Muslims are “enjoying heaven” in India. But the fact as we know is in the opposite.
True, even many Arab nations consider Muslim in India as semi-Hindus, by the way and perhaps rightly so That is why they don’t even care to raise the plight of hapless Muslims in India and prefer to trust what Indian media report about ‘secular’ India. Indian Muslims do the religious functions as a mere formality and don’t seem to attach any sincere commitment. The majority India just don’t let Muslims behave normally. Arab media would allow criticism of USA because that country seems to coercing them to give free energy resources, but it is funny to observe that they just don’t permit any criticism of India or its anti-Muslim media. It seems the News media in Arab countries are funded by Indian government, partially or these countries love Indian new cash, but they just don’t write India plain reality. What kind of Muslims they are when they are unable to see the fellow Muslims are badly targeted in India?
Common Hindus generally don’t have any valid reason to believe this theory, but the anti-Islamic forces coerce the Hindus to accept their claim. They are amply hints of the behavior of India towards Muslims right from the days of Independence that they give “their people” to follow their line of thinking. Appeasement theory circulated by the anti-Islamic forces in the country make the Hindus believe that India is being ruled by Muslims and all governments, at the center as well as the states, are Muslim dominated, all government departments are have only Muslims, military, policy and courts are being run by Muslims and majority of government employees and private enterprises are Muslims. And that all Governors and Collators in the country are Muslims. Conversely, the “appeasementalists” claim that the Hindus in their own land are being controlled by Muslims who are outsiders. Doesn’t Swamy know that, except Kashmir (which would be free any time now) none of Indian states has a Muslim as chief-minister , let alone a prime-minister and many states don’t have Muslim minister in the cabinet even to show to the world that Muslims in India are appeased too much.But those Muslims don't care for the common Muslims. Let alone a Muslim President or Vice President: they all serve the majority people for some benefits.
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2007-09-05&hidType=OPT&hidRecord=0000000000000000170367
Remarks regarding the former Prime Ministers, Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina- Comments made By an Expatriate
Wednesday September 05 2007 20:28:58 PM BDT
Gregor, Bangladesh
As a foreigner I'm a guest in Bangladesh, liveing in Dhaka since February this year and will do so for a few more years to come. Politics has always interested me very much and so it was only natural that I would follow the development of my host country. What struck me from the very beginning was the hospitality of the people of Bangladesh. I was welcomed with open arms and never experienced anything that could be considered hostile.
The political situation in Bangladesh has an impact not only on the business community but also on the people. Unfortunately the responsibility is not with the caretaker government but with the previous governments, lead by said ladies. It was them who ran the country into turmoil and, to a large extent, destruction. They are responsible for the deteriorating relationship with our neighbors, the energy crisis which leaves millions of people without electricity for the better part of the day and many more ill developments, not to speak about paving the way for corruption, extortion and crime in a never experienced extent.
The same two ladies, who have nothing to their credit except one is the daughter of a famous father, founder of Bangladesh, the other wife of a famous husband, they are now concerned about all sorts of things. These are the same persons that catapulted family members and friends into the highest Government and party positions that deprived the people of Bangladesh of control about their constitutional rights, that lived a very glamorous life and there was nobody and nothing that would limit their lifestyle in any form or shape.
At the same time the overwhelming majority of people live of less then US $ 250 a year, have no air condition (and if they had, no electricity to run them), experience massive transportation problems, waste hours to get from A to B and would have a very limited choice when it comes to buying the needs for every day's life.
And here comes my point: Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina have the chutzpa to speak on behalf of the people of Bangladesh.
They pretend to be concerned about the rice price, the catastrophic consequences of this years weather and the many people that died, the political development of the country, democracy, election and many other extremely important issues.
They don't hesitate to address the very basic instincts of the people of Bangladesh, pull every psychological trick in the book just to (mis)lead people to believe they would care, instrumentalize and manipulate the press for their games and to top all of this, make the people believe they'd be victims of a witch hunt.
Now remember, these are the same, identical persons, that had every imaginable comfort, no limits on money, police clearing their way when they needed to use the roads; they snipped the finger and it was done.
My question is: Did they care then? Do they care now? Where and what is their contribution to the flood victims? It is so cynical to misuse the press to fabricate a story, like they would want to go to the victims and console the poor guys. What precisely is it they want?
My answer: They're more worried about losing their privileges and wealth, power and influence than anything else. They're not the least interested in the average Joe's and Jill's on the streets, after all their expensive shoe could get dirty. They want to keep their hands on things and take over and retaliate as soon as emergency law has been lifted.
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2007-09-05&hidType=OPT
A Foreign Ministry release Tuesday said the Indian media are trying to portray Bangladesh as a hotbed of terrorism and such reports are disturbing and clearly motivated.
Wednesday September 05 2007 11:53:30 AM BDT
Dhaka has yet to receive any request from New Delhi for information in connection with the Hyderabad blasts regarding the involvement of Bangladesh.(UNB/ The New Nation )
The government has, however, expressed its dissatisfaction at the reports on both the print and electronic media in India linking Bangladeshi citizens to the blasts and termed such reports motivated and disturbing.
‘Bangladesh has yet to receive any request for information in connection with the Hyderabad blasts and there have been no arrests in Bangladesh in this connection,’ said a release of the foreign ministry on Tuesday.
Referring to the Indian media reports, it said the Indian media were trying to portray Bangladesh as a hotbed of terrorism and such reports were disturbing and clearly motivated.
‘Bangladesh’s position on terrorism is clear and unequivocal as it abhors terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, and Bangladesh is committed to cooperating with the international community in combating global terrorism,’ the release added.
The release referred to the recently concluded home secretary-level talks where the two countries have agreed to share information on security matters.
Bangladesh has urged the Indian media to refrain from making such sensationalism as this is neither helpful in the fight against terrorism nor in fostering better relations between the two countries.
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Foreign Ministry rejects Indian media reports
UNB, Dhaka
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed its dissatisfaction over reports in both print and electronic media in India linking Bangladeshi nationals or 'outfits' to the recent blasts in Hyderabad.
A Foreign Ministry release Tuesday said the Indian media are trying to portray Bangladesh as a hotbed of terrorism and such reports are disturbing and clearly motivated.
It said the Bangl
