Bangladesh Cancels Planned Training Of Judges In India Amid Strained Ties
Bangladesh's interim government on Sunday cancelled a planned training programme for 50 judges and judicial officers in India, scrapping a previous notification. “The notification has been cancelled,” a law ministry spokesman said without elaborating. The Daily Star newspaper, however, reported the cancellation came in compliance with a directive from Bangladesh's Supreme Court. The cancellation order came a day after the state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported that 50 lower judiciary judges would undergo a one-day training programme from February 10 at the National Judicial Academy and the State Judicial Academy in Madhya Pradesh. The trainee judges selected under the programme were district and session judge or their equivalent officers, additional district and session judge, joint district judge, senior assistant judges and assistant judge. The Indian government was supposed to bear all the expenses for the training programmes. India and Bangladesh have witnesse...