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Bangladesh gets new border force post-mutiny
Dhaka, Jan 23 (IANS) Bangladesh got a new force Sunday to guard its frontiers - the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) that replaced the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), which had witnessed a bloody mutiny in February 2009 when 74 men in uniform were killed. This marks a new beginning for a force that has a two-centuries-old history, beginning in British India, when it was known by other names. Prime Minister

Bangladesh border guards get a new chief
Dhaka: Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), the country's border guard, have a new chief even as the incumbent is presiding over the special courts trying those accused of staging a mutiny in February last year

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Bangladesh jails 29 soldiers over mutiny
Dhaka: A Bangladeshi special court handed jail terms on Wednesday to 29 border guards in the first of dozens of cases related to last year's bloody mutiny that left 74 people dead.Fifty-seven senior

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Meghalaya villagers flee after firing by Bangladesh Rifles
Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister D D Lapang has moved the Centre on the repeated "unprovoked" firings by BDR which has triggered panic among the villagers, prompting them to flee, officials said.

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Lyka BDR becomes subsidiary of Lyka Labs
Mumbai: Pharmaceuticals company Lyka Labs on Thursday said Lyka BDR International has become a subsidiary of the company.

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BDR mutiny and India's obligation

The Bangladesh Rifles’ (BDR) mutiny on the morning of February 25, 2009 at the force’s headquarters in Dhaka shows the serious threat Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government is fac

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