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Critical days for Modi and rivals

THE underplayed defeat for his government by 32 seats in the parliamentary elections, with a whopping loss of 63 BJP MPs from the previous tally, may have reined in prime minister Modi’s self-obsessed march on Indian democracy for now. His new and untested experiment with a coalition government has just begun, with the opening of the 18th Lok Sabha on June 24...

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Maoists kill two security force members

Indian Maoist insurgents killed two members of the security forces by blowing up a ration truck with a roadside bomb, police said Monday, the latest clash in a decades-long conflict...

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Indians take away $50m

Indian citizens living in Bangladesh remitted $ 50.60 million to their country in the first ten months of the 2023-24 financial year, finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali told the Jatiya Sangsad on Monday...

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3 Bangladeshis injured in BSF firing

At least three Bangladeshis, including a farmer, were injured as the Indian Border Security Force shot at them reportedly entering the Bangladesh territory near the Hatibandha border in Lalmonirhat on Friday...

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Modi readies for third term

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was deep in negotiations with alliance partners to form his cabinet on Thursday, after an unexpectedly close election that forced his party into a coalition government, reports Agence France-Presse...

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Modi eyes victory as Kejriwal sent back to jail

A top opponent of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi vowed Sunday to keep fighting ‘dictatorship’ before he returned to jail Sunday, following elections widely expected to produce another landslide victory for the Hindu-nationalist leader...

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Indian visa centre demanded in Faridpur

A human chain was formed on Friday demanding the establishment of an Indian visa centre in Faridpur to mitigate the suffering of visa seekers in the...

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Murdered MP’s daughter yet to get Indian visa

Mumtarin Ferdous Dorin, the daughter of slain ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, did not get an Indian visa till Thursday as she was waiting to go to Kolkata to give a sample for a DNA test to identify her father’s body who was reportedly killed in a New Town flat...

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Why Modi claims he has won

FIFTY-SEVEN races are still to be decided on Saturday, but prime minister Narendra Modi says he has already won a thumping majority. Let us see the mind more than the logic at work here...

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Nepal latest to ban Indian spice brands

Nepal has become the latest jurisdiction to ban the import and sale of two popular Indian spice brands after reports that some of their products contained a...

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Indian elections

THE Islamophobic rhetoric being employed by Narendra Modi for this election campaign has become shrill. Pakistan has nearly always been an electoral issue in India...

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Answers and questions remain

The Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party is in for another round and many Indian commentators are saying that it is because he is turning ‘India’ into a nation and giving people a sense of pride and security that they did not have before...

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BSF kills 2 more Bangladesh nationals

Two young men from Bangladesh were reportedly shot to death by the Indian Border Security Force on Wednesday, as they allegedly tried to cross into India near Tetulia upazila in Panchagarh...

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Indian citizen held for entering Bangladesh

An Indian citizen, Shafiuddin, 50, has been arrested by the Border Guard Bangladesh for illegally entering Bangladesh through the Patgram border of Lalmonirhat...

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Australia tiptoes around Indian spy scandal

A string of senior Australian ministers on Wednesday refused to confirm reports that a ‘nest’ of Indian spies had been uncovered in the country and expelled, allegations that threaten to damage a burgeoning alliance.

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Seven Maoists killed by Indian security forces

At least seven Maoist insurgents were shot dead by Indian security forces on Tuesday, police said, the latest clash in a decades-long conflict waged in the country’s wild central forests...

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Cancer causing chemicals found in Indian spices

Bangladesh authorities are yet to take any steps regarding the use of spices from two Indian brands that were recalled by food regulators in Hong Kong and Singapore after presence of cancer-causing ingredients were found in them...

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Arafat urges Mauritius to invest in SEZ

State minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat, now on a visit to Mauritius, on Wednesday urged the Indian Ocean country to invest in the special economic zone in Bangladesh.....