Bangladesh police begin procuring its vehicles from India
The police in a rare move have begun procuring Indian Mahindra vehicles for the Dhaka Metropolitan Police with 10 pickup vans handed over to police stations in the first phase.
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Bangladesh protests at killing of its national by Indian BSF
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government on Wednesday protested at the killing of Bangladeshi national Md Kamal Hossain by Indian Border Security Force along the border area in Cumilla.
Two Indian citizens among 10 held in border areas
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh detained 10 people, including two Indian nationals, from border areas in Brahmanbaria, Panchagarh and Sylhet districts.
Kashmir elects first regional govt in a decade
Indian-administered Kashmir elected on Tuesday its first government since the restive Himalayan territory was brought under New Delhi鈥檚 direct control, as voters backed opposition parties...
Sino-Indian relations coming full circle
BEGINNING in the late 1940s, Sino-Indian camaraderie reached its buoyant apogee with the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru鈥檚 inaugural visit to Beijing in October 1954, the leitmotif of which was the spirit of Hindi-Chini bhai bhai (India and China are brothers). Since then, it has been marked by a gradual trajectory of decline, due to a host of controversial...
UK hands Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius
Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but under what president Joe Biden called a 鈥榟istoric agreement鈥� will keep a strategic Indian Ocean military base with...
Indian doctors resume strike
Indian doctors in Kolkata said on Tuesday they had resumed a strike to protest against the brutal rape and murder of a colleague because their demands for hospital safety improvements had not been met...
Kashmir votes in final round of regional polls
Indian-administered Kashmir was voting Tuesday in the third and final round of polls to elect its first government since the insurgency-wracked territory was brought under...
IPL鈥檚 Modi blasts cricket鈥檚 Hundred as 鈥榖ig fat Ponzi scheme鈥�
Indian Premier League founder Lalit Modi has labelled the Hundred competition a 鈥榖ig fat Ponzi scheme鈥�, accusing English cricket chiefs of unrealistic financial projections.
Security high as Kashmir votes in round two of regional polls
Indian-administered Kashmir voted on Wednesday to elect its first government since New Delhi scrapped the Himalayan territory鈥檚 semi-autonomous status, sparking widespread protest in a region wracked by a decades-long insurgency...
BSF move to construct border fence halted
The Border Guard Bangladesh halted the Indian Border Security Force鈥檚 attempts to fence the borderline with barbed wire in the no man鈥檚 land in Joypurhat area on Sunday...
Kashmir votes after special status scrapped
Indian-administered Kashmir began voting Wednesday in the first local elections since the cancellation of its special semi-autonomous status sparked fury in the troubled Himalayan territory, which is also claimed by Pakistan...
Trump says will meet Modi
Former US president Donald Trump said on Tuesday he plans to meet next week with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, who will be visiting the United States for several official events...
Bangladeshi deported over anti-India posts
Alamgir Sheikh, 34, from Patgram of Lalmonirhat, has been detained by Indian authorities and had his tourist visa canceled due to anti-India posts and comments made on social media...
Kejriwal quits after release from jail
A top political opponent of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi quit as chief minister of the capital Delhi on Tuesday, days after being released on bail in a corruption case...
Indian authorities cancel visa, deport Bangladeshi over anti-india posts
Alamgir Sheikh (34) from Patgram, Lalmonirhat, has been detained by Indian authorities and had his tourist visa cancelled due to anti-India posts and comments made on social media.
Modi campaigns in Kashmir polls after latest soldier deaths
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said 鈥榯errorism is on its last legs鈥� in Kashmir while campaigning in the disputed territory on Saturday, a day after two soldiers were killed in a gunfight with suspected militants...
Bangladesh protesters name Dhaka street after Felani
A group of protesters, organised by a private organisation, on Friday installed a plaque naming a street near the Indian high commission in Dhaka after Felani Khatun, who was shot dead by India鈥檚 Border Security Force along the Bangladesh border in 2011.
Indian police arrest 33 after violence in Manipur
Indian police have arrested 33 people after a surge in ethnic violence in Manipur state, where a curfew and an internet blackout have been imposed, officers said on Thursday...
MTB gets ICC recognition
Mutual Trust Bank PLC has been honoured with 鈥榖est bank鈥� title by the Indian Chamber of Commerce recently, said a press release...
BSF returns body of schoolboy
The Indian Border Security Force has returned the body of Jayonto Kumar Singha, a Bangladeshi schoolboy who was fatally shot along the Baliadangi border in Thakurgaon...
Indian soldiers kill two in Kashmir
Indian soldiers in Kashmir killed two suspected militants on Wednesday, the army said, the latest clashes during campaigning for local elections in the disputed region...
JU, RU students protest at border killing by BSF
Students of the Jahangirnagar University and the Rajshahi University on Monday held rallies on their respective campuses to protest against killings of Bangladeshis by the Indian Border Security Force in bordering areas...
Ousted regime remained busy with monument projects
Finance, commerce and science and technology adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday criticised the recently ousted Awami League regime for following the 鈥業ndian syndrome of monument projects鈥�...
Kenya protest against Adani鈥檚 airport deal could turn into anger against India: Congress leader
The Indian National Congress on Tuesday cautioned that protests against Adani Group 鈥榯aking over鈥� operations of Kenya鈥檚 Nairobi airport could turn public sentiment in the African nation against India, after members of Kenya Aviation Workers Union had called for protests over plans by the Kenyan government to strike an investment deal with India鈥檚 Adani Group to...
Indian rape protests spiral into political street clashes
Thousands of protesters clashed in India鈥檚 eastern city of Kolkata on Wednesday, where demonstrations seeking justice for a murdered doctor spiralled into violent street skirmishes between political rivals...
An inevitable brotherhood?
The imagination of politics as a source of corruption is not new. In what is called the ancient Indian state with its many variations and formulations, corruption existed largely. One of the great worries of Chanakya, who wrote Arthashastra, the book of governance management in ancient India, was official corruption. Bureaucrats have officially been corrupt and there is no historical evidence of any impulse that can reduce it...
Protests widen over Indian doctor鈥檚 rape, murder
Thousands of outraged Indian protesters, including arch-rival football fans and lawyers, called for justice on Monday after the rape and murder of a doctor as widespread strikes by healthcare workers entered a second week...
Indian media鈥檚 role in harming Bangladeshi Hindus
FOLLOWING the student-led protests, the mass uprising and the prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 exit on August 5, Indian mainstream media and social media have circulated false claims of rising persecution against the religious minority, the Hindu community, in Bangladesh. The reports, frequently accompanied by misleading footage, misrepresent...
Women students in Bangladesh protest at doctor鈥檚 rape, murder in India
Women students of different universities in Bangladesh formed a human chain on the Dhaka University campus protesting against the rape and killing of a woman trainee doctor at Kolkata鈥檚 RG Kar Hospital.