Bangladesh

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Saturday reiterated that connectivity is the key to improving the ease of doing business and living. He was speaking during the third edition of Natural Allies in Development and Interdependence (NADI) in Guwahati. The conference was inaugurated by Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma with […]

CHATTOGRAM, BANGLADESH: Jiten Kanti Guho, a former president of the local unit of the Awami League, was tied up to a tree and beaten up last week in an incident that created ripples in Bangladesh. While the local minority community leaders termed it as a case of a communal attack on minorities in Bangladesh, the […]

NEW DELHI: With an eye on enhancing bilateral cooperation with its neighbours, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar will begin a three-day visit to Bangladesh and Bhutan on Thursday. Dr Jaishankar is slated to meet Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and his counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen tomorrow in Dhaka, MEA said on Wednesday. The […]

NEW DELHI: Stressing that the Ukraine war has added to challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Tuesday called upon members of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) to deepen and broaden cooperation within the group. Speaking at the BIMSTEC Ministerial meeting in […]

NEW DELHI: The railway passenger service between India and Bangladesh, which was stopped in March 2020 due to Covid-19, will be resumed soon, Bangladesh’s Railways Ministry said. The decision to resume the rail service was taken following a meeting between Vikram Kumar Doraiswami, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh with Bangladesh Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan in Dhaka on Wednesday. Inter-country Maitree […]

Written by Gautam Jha & Pankaj Kumar There are instances where Refugee Status is being granted by the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in India to the Asylum Seekers in spite of having Exclusion Triggers (Risk Profile) as their Refugee Status Determination Process is based upon “balance of probability and reasonable possibility”. There are countries […]

NEW DELHI: A day after Congress party interim chief Sonia Gandhi is scheduled to participate in the year-long celebration of 50th anniversary of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will address a massive public meeting in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun on December 16. Congress General Secretary (Organisations) K. C. Venugopal on Friday said […]

NEW DELHI: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) has called on Twitter to clarify why they deleted their Bangladesh chapter account. This arbitrary move by Twitter came nearly a week after the devotees at an ISKCON Temple in Noakhali, Bangladesh, were violently attacked by a mob which left one dead and several others critically […]

NEW DELHI: A terror strike is said to have been averted in the national capital after Delhi Police in co-ordination with central security agencies arrested a Pakistan national, Mohammad Ashraf, alias Ali, with a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Ramesh Park area of East Delhi on Monday. Ashraf was said to be masquerading […]