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96 hours in no-man's land: BSF shelters Bangladeshi family pushed back by BGB
Jalpaiguri: India stepped in on Monday to provide shelter and food to a Bangladeshi family of 10 who had been stranded in no-man's land for days near the Shyam border outpost in Sakati, Jalpaiguri Sadar block, after Bangladesh refused to take them back and allegedly had their documents seized. The family had originally been pushed back by the Border Security Force in the early hours of Saturday following a standoff with the Border Guard Bangladesh. Unlike other Bangladeshi nationals stranded...
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BSF ends border standoff, says illegals sent to Bangladesh
A high-stakes standoff between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at four points along the India-Bangladesh border in Bengal ended abruptly overnight, with all 40-odd Bangladeshi nationals who had been stranded at zero points since Friday disappearing by Saturday morning. The most tense confrontation unfolded at Pillar No. 134 in Panishala, in Cooch Behar's Mekhliganj, where 10 people had been stranded after BGB refused to accept them, claiming they were being...