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BANGLADESH: DHAKA: 48 HOUR STRIKE PARALYZES CAPITAL
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Bangladesh opposition parties are claiming success after their nationwide, 48-hour anti-government strike.
Their action paralysed the capital, Dhaka, with banks, businesses and schools remaining closed.
As the strike...
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Bangladesh - Tanks Guard Presidential Palace
Tanks remained on guard around the Bangladesh presidential palace in Dhaka on Tuesday (21/5) after a night of tension and confusion following the sacking of the national army chief. Troops were on guard around other key installations in...
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Protesters on streets on anniversary of election, opposition leader comments
Police and opposition activists clashed on the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, on Monday, amid heightened tensions on the anniversary of a general election boycotted by a major opposition alliance last year (2014).
Tensions...
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+4:3 Clashes as opposition party tries to enforce three-day strike
Police and backers of Bangladesh's ruling party clashed on Sunday with opposition supporters, leaving at least five people dead
and scores injured in different parts of the country as opposition parties tried to enforce a three-day...
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SYND 28/03/1972 PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENT OF BANGLADESH ATTEND INDEPENDENCE PARADE
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheik Mujibur Rahman and President Abu Sayeed Chowdhury attend anniversary of independence celebrations in Dhaka.
1. ms Chowdhury arrives
2. gv spectators
3. ms Chowdhury salutes as soldiers parade
4. ms...
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SYND 7 8 74 HEAVY FLOODING IN DACCA, BANGLADESH
Heavy flooding in Dacca (Dhaka).
1. gv floodwaters
2. ms children sitting on roof
3. gv flooded house with children on roof
4. person in boat
5. kids through water
6. ms flooded house
7. various of people eating
8. various of...
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UPITN 25 5 73 PEACE CONFERENCE IN DACCA (DHAKA) BANGLADESH
Peace Conference in Dacca (Dhaka), Bangladesh.
1. various of people arriving to peace conference
2. gv line of portraits of politicians including Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Indira Gandhi and Brezhnev
3. various of crowd at the conference
4. ms...
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BANGLADESH: PROTESTS AGAINST GOVERNMENT OFFER OF ELECTIONS
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Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Bangladesh in protest at Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's offer to hold general elections while she remains in power.
Opposition parties are calling for a neutral caretaker...
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SYND 18-12-72 DHAKA CELEBRATING SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN BECOMING PRIME MINISTER OF BANGLADESH
Dhaka celebrating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman becoming Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
1. various of torches moving through night
2. various of shrine displayvarious of illuminations at night with posters of Sheik Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's...
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Police clash with protesters during strike for electoral reforms
1. Various of protesters with banners
2. Riot police on the side of the street while the protesters passing
3. Water canon truck
4. More of protesters
5. Women with banner walking and chanting
6. Riot police walking holding their...
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Large protests calling for removal of election officials continue into fourth day
1. People walking in the street in the morning
2. Dozens of rickshaws at roadside
3. Empty street with only a few bicycle rickshaws passing
4. Closed shops
5. People walking in road past concrete blocks set by police
6. Police...
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Bangladesh police, Islamic activists clash; at least 27 die, police ban rallies
1. Various of government forces marching to Motijheel area of capital Dhaka
2. Wide of street-side shops burning and people running away as police approach
3. Mid of riot police advancing, clearing barricade to make way for riot...
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BANGLADESH: DHAKA: GENERAL STRIKE DURING LEAD UP TO ELECTIONS
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A general strike has hit Bangladesh in the lead-up to parliamentary elections next month.
Opposition parties have led a strike calling for the current government to step down in favour of a neutral administration to...
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Government temporarily suspends indefinite curfew
1. Top view of street in Dhaka as life resumes after curfew lifted
2. Various of traffic
3. Shopkeeper hanging up his goods to sell
4. Traffic on street
5. People at market stall as it opens
6. More of traffic
7. Various of exterior of...
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Bangladesh police clash with opposition protesters
1. Various of bus set on fire by protesters
2. Various of motorbike burning
3. Various of firemen trying to extinguish fire
4. Mid of tyre set on fire by protesters, police and protesters in background
5. Wide of government supporters...
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Violence as protesters call on government to enact anti-blasphemy law
1. Various of Hefajat-e-Islam activists throwing stones, fires burning, AUDIO: rubber bullets being fired
2. Fires burning in street, AUDIO: rubber bullets being fired
3. Shops on fire in side street
4. People running away as fires...
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Bangladesh - Former Islamic party chief sentenced to 90 years for crimes against humanity / Jamaat-e-Islami leader sentenced to death for war crimes
Former Islamic party chief sentenced to 90 years for crimes against humanity
Dhaka - 15 July 2013
1. Wide of police guarding the entrance of the High Court
2. Police anti-riot vehicle outside High Court
3. Police motorcade carrying...
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Bangladesh - Strike Calls For Early Elections
Nearly 20,000 opposition activists chanted "victory" at a rally in
the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, on Sunday afternoon (11/9) as the
city emerged from a crippling eight-hour strike called to press
demands for early elections.
early...
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Demos for and against life sentence for Jamaat-e-Islami leader
Protesters took to the streets of Dhaka on Tuesday, after Bangladesh's Supreme Court sentenced a leader of an opposition political party to death for committing crimes against humanity during the nation's 1971 independence war against...
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A ferry packed with about 200 people capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing 31 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said.
HEADLINE Raw Video: 31 dead in Bangladesh ferry crash
CAPTION: A ferry packed with about 200 people capsized in a river in southern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing 31 people and leaving dozens more missing, authorities said. (March 13) ...
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SYND 20-12-72 BANGLADESH CABINET AND JUSTICES TAKE OATHS OF OFFICE IN DACCA
Bangladesh cabinet ministers and justices take oaths of office under new national constitution in Dacca (Dhaka).
1. gv building
2. ms President of Bangladesh Aby Sayeed Chowdhury and Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman entering a room...
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Bangladesh - CAC Lays Seige To Government Complex
On Wednesday 12/10, supporters of the 13-party Combined Action Council (CAC) laid siege to a high-security government complex in Dhaka to demand a blasphemy law and the scrapping of Bangladesh's friendship treaty with India.
police in...
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Bangladesh police clash with opposition activists
1. Wide top view activists of Jamaat-e-Islami party protesting on the street
2. Various top views of protesters setting fire to tyres and throwing bricks at the police
3. Wide top view of police
4. Various of police firing tear gas and...
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BANGLADESH: DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST ELECTIONS LEAVES 3 DEAD
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Three people were killed and 200 injured in more demonstrations against this week's general election in Bangladesh.
The killings in southern Bangladesh on Sunday raised the death toll from pre-election violence in the last...