I've been noticing since a pretty long time that some of the members are creating non-defense B.S. threads on Bangladesh Defence just to get their ranks up. Which is certainly degrading the forum. Topics like "Why Bangladesh performance is disappointing in sports?" and stuff don't make any sense...
Not an inch of land to be conceded to India: Maj General Rafiqul Islam
The newly appointed BDR Director Major General Rafiqul Islam today vowed that not an inch of land will be conceded to India.
The General visited Dibir Haor and Kendri Beel in Jaintapur upazilla bordering Indian state of...
Defense budget increased to record level
Tk. 12000 crore for 2011; additional funds authorised if required
The Bangladesh government intends to provide 12000 crore taka in funding for the 2011 budget of the armed forces.
14 x MiG-29 multirole combat aircraft will be procured for the...
BDR to set up camps every 5 kilometer along the border
Director general of the Bangladesh Riffles Maj Gen Moinul Islam said on Monday that justice must prevail in the Peelkhana mutiny trial regardless of the law employed.
"Whatever the law used, we want justice," Islam told reporters...
5 Indians held with explosives in CHT
Tue, Aug 18th, 2009 12:21 pm BdST
Khagrachhari, Aug 18 (bdnews24.com) Army and police in a joint drive arrested five Indian citizens with two dozen 'cocktail bombs' in Khagrachhari hill district, police said on Tuesday.
The suspected Indian...
PM for reducing trade imbalance with Pakistan
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today stressed the urgency of removing Bangladeshs widening trade imbalance with Pakistan as she said there is huge potential lying untapped for enhancing the bilateral trade.
She made the suggestion when...
88 Bangladeshi UN peacekeepers killed on duties, JS told
BSS, Dhaka
Planning Minister Air Vice Marshall (retd) AK Khandakar, who is also Minister-in-Charge of the Defense in the House, said on Tuesday that 88 Bangladeshi armed force personnel have so far been killed while performing duties...
US Bangladesh combined training exercise begins
Staff Reporter
The first US-Bangladesh Joint Training Exercise for 2009 will take place in Chittagong Division in May.
Units from the Bangladesh Navy and the US Special Operations Command Pacific will focus on marksmanship and small unit...
DMP (Dhaka Metropolitan Police) SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) is an elite tactical unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police. They operated under the Detective Branch of DMP.
Numbering only 44 personnel currently the elite unit will eventually grow to battalion strength in the near future...
Bangladesh to raise new border force
Bangladesh has decided to disband its mutiny-hit paramilitary unit, the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), and raise a new force to guard its borders.
The BDR -- responsible mainly for guarding Bangladesh's over 4,000 km (2,485 miles) border with India and...
The BN is going to procure 4 Turkish-built Type-209 attack submarine by 2012. One submarine is supposed be delivered by 2010.
Type-209 Attack Submarine
Class overview
Builders: Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft
Arsenal de Marinha, Rio de Janeiro
Mazagon Dock Limited, Mumbai
Daewoo...
Tension along Myanmar border
Star Report
Tension runs high along the Bangladesh-Myanmar borders as the neighbouring country started erecting barbed-wire fences unilaterally on its side of 200-kilometre land borders with Bangladesh, said defence sources.
The neighbouring nation is also...
Bangladesh blocks YouTube over mutiny tape: govt source
DHAKA (AFP) Bangladesh has blocked the video sharing website YouTube for hosting a recorded conversation between the newly elected prime minister and the country's powerful army officers, officials said Sunday.
Internet users were...
Anger really can kill you: study
CHICAGO, Mon Feb 23, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Anger and other strong emotions can trigger potentially deadly heart rhythms in certain vulnerable people, US researchers said on Monday.
Previous studies have shown that earthquakes, war or even the loss of a...
Pak militants declare indefinite ceasefire
AFP, PeshawarPro-Taliban militants on Tuesday declared an indefinite ceasefire in Pakistan's Swat valley, where they have been fighting for nearly two years to enforce sharia law, a spokesman said.
The announcement came after militant leader...
Hasina for building BDR a trained force
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (Tuesday) urged the members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) to work for the welfare of the country.
The prime minister said this while inaugurating 'Bangladesh Rifles Week-2009' at the BDR Headquarters this morning...