Staff Reporter

Bangladesh has urged the border security force (BSF) of India to use alternative to firearms to avoid deaths of ‘innocent Bangladeshi people’, home secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder has said.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun made the call in a meeting with Raman Shrivastava, chief of the Indian BSF at her office yesterday, the home secretary told reporters after the meeting.
In reply, the BSF chief assured the home minister of stopping shooting along the India-Bangladesh border. “We are considering whether something else can be used instead of bullets,” he said. [Read More]

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Source: The New Nation