DHAKA: Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, Pranay Verma Sunday said both nations are important stakeholders in “peace and development” of Bay of Bengal, and collaboration between the two is vital to address shared challenges of environmental sustainability & climate change.India’s partnership with Bangladesh must benefit people on both sides, he said. “As a neighbour with…
DHAKA: Bangladesh is set to receive its first consignment of rice imported from India since the formation of the new interim govt even as it looks to be drawing closer to Pakistan than to its immediate neighbour India, which stood beside Bangladesh in 1971 through shared sacrifices.Bangladesh had witnessed ships coming from Karachi twice in…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar, while responding to supplementaries of members during question hour in Lok Sabha on Friday, said Indian security forces would be going to all patrolling points in Depsang in Ladakh and also to the eastward limit which have historically been India’s patrolling limit. “Those disengagement agreements (with China) also…
NEW DELHI: Foreign secretary Vikram Misri called for clearing the “clouds” that have overshadowed bilateral relations between the two countries in a meeting with chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government Muhammad Yunus on Monday.Yunus too, reiterated Bangladesh’s commitment to resolving these issues, highlighting the need to remove the “clouds” overshadowing relations. “India desires a positive,…
NEW DELHI: India on Monday raised concerns about the safety of minorities and recent attacks on cultural, religious, and diplomatic properties in Bangladesh.Foreign secretary Vikram Misri met his counterpart Md. Touhid Hossain in Dhaka and reiterated India’s commitment to strengthening ties with the interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. “I underlined today, India’s…
Mamata Banerjee (File photo) KOLKATA: Bangladesh has been left “leaderless” by a “mafia” that thrives under a “weak” administration, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said in a TV interview aired Friday. She said Bengal, which shares the longest land border with Bangladesh, wasn’t the only state at risk from the continued political and social instability…
Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri NEW DELHI: Foreign secretary Vikram Misri will be visiting Bangladesh on December 9 to hold meeting with his counterpart, said ministry of external affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal.Misri will hold several other meetings during his visit, which comes amid tension between the two countries over ongoing violence against Hindu and minority…
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s interim govt accused India’s ” governing elite” on Wednesday of attempting to create an “internal political issue” out of everything that was happening beyond the border between the two countries.“If this happens, it will be detrimental to India’s domestic politics. Anti-Bangladesh and anti-Muslim politics won’t serve India’s national interest or contribute to its…
NEW DELHI: A key aide to Bangladesh’s interim government chief adviser, Muhammad Yunus dismissed speculations about a potential ban on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon ), following the controversial arrest of a monk linked to the Hindu organisation. Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam, speaking to ANI, categorically stated that there were no plans to…
Bangladesh’s interim government chief, Muhammad Yunus, has urged national unity in the face of what he described as a coordinated “campaign” by “big countries” to undermine the legitimacy of the uprising that brought his administration to power.Speaking on Wednesday to representatives of political parties, Yunus stopped short of naming any specific country but addressed escalating…
