IN SOUTH Asia, power rarely wears the mask of neutrality. It either comes cloaked in populist nationalism or camouflaged in a strategic alliance. Bangladesh, wedged between two troubling neighbours 鈥� India and Myanmar 鈥� is increasingly a frontline state, not just in terms of geographic vulnerability, but as a theatre for the contest between sovereignty and...
Indian commandos killed Wednesday the Maoist chief, the country鈥檚 home minister said, in what could be a decisive blow to the decades-long conflict...
India鈥檚 top court granted bail on Wednesday to a professor arrested for commentating online about the military conflict with Pakistan, but did not stop the investigation against him...
Interim government foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Wednesday said Indian nationals pushed into Bangladesh would be sent back...
The Indian Premier League final will be played in Ahmedabad, the country's cricket board said Tuesday as it announced the venues for the playoffs of the T20 tournament.
Pakistan and India have agreed to withdraw troop reinforcements deployed during their recent conflict back to their peacetime positions by the end of May, a senior Pakistani security official said on Tuesday.
DESPITE deep ties between Bangladesh and India in the geopolitical landscape of South Asia, India鈥檚 approach to border management has often been aggressive, escalating tensions with its neighbours. Recently, a complex diplomatic conflict has emerged over 鈥榩ush-in鈥� incidents along the India-Bangladesh border, where Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) have been...
Newly floated Janata Party Bangladesh on Monday urged the interim government to suspend transit facility given to India through Bangladesh as that country had recently imposed restrictions on imports from Bangladesh through land ports...
Pakistan鈥檚 foreign minister will make a three-day official visit to China, his office said on Sunday, a little over a week after Islamabad reached a ceasefire with India to end their most serious conflict in decades...
Bangladesh failed to retain the title of the SAFF Under-19 Championship as they lost to India in the final 4-3 on penalties at the Golden Jubilee Stadium in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday.
Bangladeshi exporters and an economist expressed worries over the imposition of import restrictions by India on a number of Bangladeshi goods, including readymade garments, fruit and fruit-flavoured carbonated drinks, processed food items, cotton and cotton yarn waste, some plastic and PVC finished goods, and wooden furniture, through land ports...
Commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin on Sunday said that the trade between Bangladesh and India would continue in the interest of consumers and businesses of both the countries...
Thirty-six Bangladeshi trucks loaded with ready-made garment items have remained stranded at Benapole land port following restrictions imposed by India on the import of certain goods through its land ports.
At least 17 people died after a fire ripped through a building in Hyderabad, India, local officials said Sunday.
The Indian space agency鈥檚 mission to launch into orbit a new Earth observation satellite failed after the launch vehicle encountered a technical issue, officials said Sunday.
India鈥檚 Border Security Force pushed 28 more people into Bangladesh through borders in Thakurgaon and Panchagarh district on Saturday as the neighbouring country continued push-in of people.
The Government of India has announced new import restrictions on certain goods coming from Bangladesh, effective immediately...
A team of Indian police and intelligence departments arrested 90 people, including women and children, branding them as Bangladeshi citizens, in a joint operation at the Khajpur village under the Nohjheel police station in Uttar Pradesh...
US president Donald Trump鈥檚 claim to have helped end fighting between arch-rivals India and Pakistan has driven a wedge between him and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, analysts say.
Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday the International Monetary Fund should reconsider a one billion dollar loan to Pakistan alleging it was 鈥榝unding terror鈥�, a move denounced by Islamabad as proof of New Delhi鈥檚 desperation.
UK foreign secretary David Lammy met with his Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad on Friday, a week after the country鈥檚 most serious military confrontation with India in decades.
Fisheries and livestock adviser Farida Akhter said on Friday that India must face trial for destroying life and biodiversity in Bangladesh by unilaterally withdrawing river water upstream across the border.
Local people and Border Guard Bangladesh members reportedly foiled an attempt by the Indian Border Security Force to push at least 150 people into Bangladesh between midnight past Thursday and Friday morning through the bordering...
At least 10 militants were killed in a gunfight with paramilitary troopers in the northeastern state of Manipur, the Indian army said on Thursday.
India and Pakistan accused each other on Thursday of failing to control their nuclear weapons, calling on the world to monitor their neighbour鈥檚 arsenal just days after their most serious military confrontation in two decades.
The Border Security Force of India on Thursday pushed 30 more people into Bangladesh through separate bordering points of Kulaura and Borolekha upazilas in Moulvibazar as pushing people into Bangladesh from India continues without following any legal process.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday blamed the Awami League for the country鈥檚 prolonged failure to secure its fair share of Ganges water from India....
At least six crore people across Bangladesh are facing an acute irrigation and water crisis due to an arbitrary withdrawal of river water upstream across the border by India, river experts and researchers said at a press conference in Rajshahi on Thursday...
IN 1975, India constructed the Farakka Barrage near the Bangladesh border, diverting water from the Ganges River into the Bhagirathi-Hooghly River to enhance the navigability of Kolkata Port. While this might have initially served India鈥檚 economic interest, the consequences for Bangladesh have been devastating. Ecological degradation, agricultural disruption...
A UN expert said on Thursday he was investigating 鈥榗redible reports鈥� that Rohingya refugees were forced off an Indian navy ship into the Andaman Sea, in what would be an 鈥榰nconscionable鈥� act.