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India women hail new era but challenges remain

India’s historic Women’s World Cup victory has sparked an excitement which it is hoped will inspire the next generation and draw new fans to the sport...

India, US seek to repair ties

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday he had held a conversation with Donald Trump, with the US president saying the pair had discussed trade as the countries negotiate a deal that could mend strained ties...

Modi, Trump discuss trade as India, US work to repair ties

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi revealed on Wednesday he had held a conversation with Donald Trump, with the US president saying the pair had discussed trade as the countries negotiate a deal that could mend strained ties.

Govt gives Tk 7.7cr to families of 77 killed

The government on Saturday disbursed Tk 7.70 crore to the families of 77 people killed in the 2013 Shapla Square rally of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and the 2021 protest against Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh...

India, UK hail ‘new energy’ in economic ties

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi told his British counterpart Keir Starmer on Thursday that relations had made ‘significant progress’, as they pledged to unlock ‘unparalleled’ economic opportunities...

India ready to rev up chipmaking

When prime minister Narendra Modi declared India’s ‘late entry’ into the global semiconductor race, he pinned hopes on pioneers such as Vellayan Subbiah to create a chip innovation hub...

Modi visits Manipur 2yrs after ethnic clashes

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to troubled Manipur state on Saturday since more than 250 people were killed in ethnic clashes there two years ago...

India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit,’ turns to EU

INDIA found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event in Tianjin, China, with western media hyping up its unlikely role in a troika with Russia and China to chariot the world order toward a brave new era of multipolarity...

Trump and Modi say US-India trade talks continuing

US president Donald Trump said Tuesday that trade talks with India would continue, despite strained ties since his imposition of 50-per cent tariffs over New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil...

Indian PM Narendra Modi says ties with US still ‘very positive’

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that New Delhi and Washington still shared ‘very positive’ ties, after US President Donald Trump reaffirmed their personal friendship and downplayed his earlier remarks about ‘losing India’ to China....

Tianjin talks: new phase in India-China ties

SOMETIMES, history moves not through bold declarations but through quiet recalibration. That is what unfolded in Tianjin on August 31, when Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit...

To dump west, embrace BRICS

BY HABIT, the choreographed Indian crowd began to chant ‘Modi Modi’ at an event for the Indian prime minister’s two-day visit to China. The Chinese hosts, on the other hand, greeted him with a knowledgeable display of Indian classical music, something Indians would struggle to reciprocate if it ever came to that. There’s a trade deficit, and there’s evidently a cultural...

Modi arrives in China

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi touched down in the Chinese city of Tianjin Saturday evening, Indian TV networks showed, a day before a summit that will be attended by leaders from more than 20 countries.

Trump thumbs nose at decades of India courtship

No respite from high prices despite fall on global market

Despite a sharp decline in the commodity prices on the international market after a Ukraine war-induced surge, consumers in Bangladesh are still bearing the brunt of high prices of commodities as the domestic market remains indifferent to the global price fall...

Delhi trapped in Trump’s diplomatic snare

THE images remain vivid: Narendra Modi clasping Donald Trump’s hand before a roaring crowd of Indian Americans in Houston in 2019; the ‘Namaste Trump’ rally in Ahmedabad the following year, replete with pageantry, promises and mutual admiration. For many in New Delhi, these spectacles signalled the arrival of a new era — an India finally embraced as...

Modi dangles tax cuts as US tariffs loom

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s push to slash consumption taxes on everyday goods could deliver billions of dollars in annual relief and boost demand in an economy bracing for painful US tariffs, experts say...

India proposes law to sack ministers facing criminal charges

India’s government introduced a bill on Wednesday to remove top politicians if they are arrested and detained for 30 days, which opponents called a ‘chilling’ bid to crush constitutional safeguards...

Modi says had ‘good’ conversation with Putin

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said he had ‘a very good’ conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday, during which they discussed Ukraine and ways to strengthen bilateral ties.

India’s illegal push-in doctrine

IN THE silent shadows of diplomacy and under the smoke of geopolitical cordiality, a darker truth is unfolding at the borderlands between Bangladesh and India. A truth so grotesque, so cruel and so systemic that one begins to question not only the morality of the world’s largest democracy, but also its very claim to being a civilised, law-abiding state. India, under...

Modi renews ties with Maldives, pledges $565m

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi wrapped up a visit to the Maldives on Saturday, renewing ties by offering infrastructure projects and vital financial assistance to the cash-strapped Indian Ocean nation...

India’s Modi and UK PM Starmer ink trade deal

UK prime minister Keir Starmer praised Britain’s ‘unique bonds’ with India as he and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi formally signed a recently announced UK-India trade deal during talks on Thursday...

Yunus sends mangoes to Modi

A consignment of mangoes, sent by chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi as a goodwill gesture between the two neighbours, is scheduled to reach New Delhi on Monday...

India, Canada resume diplomatic ties

India and Canada agreed Tuesday to return ambassadors to each other’s capitals, turning a page on a bitter spat over an assassination as Canada’s new leader welcomed counterpart Narendra Modi...

Spirit of mutual respect, understanding to guide 2 nations to work together: Yunus to Modi

Bangladesh’s interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi have exchanged Eid-ul-Azha greetings in the spirit of festivity, sacrifice, generosity and unity...

Modi opens strategic railway in Kashmir

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Kashmir on Friday since a conflict with arch-rival Pakistan, opening a strategic railway line to the contested region he called ‘the crown jewel of India’.

Resuming SAARC, renewing friendship

THE late poet and film lyricist Kaifi Azmi described a strange method of writing film songs, which has come to bear a close resemblance to the method in prime minister Narendra Modi’s foreign policy...

Modi vows strong response to any future ‘terrorist attack’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed Monday to respond strongly to any future ‘terrorist attack’, and warned that New Delhi would not tolerate ‘nuclear blackmail’ in the event of further conflict with Pakistan.

Indian PM Modi set to address nation

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was set to address the nation on Monday for the first time since a weekend ceasefire with Pakistan that brought the nuclear-armed rivals back from the brink of all-out war.

Modi chairs meeting with military chiefs, Rajnath Singh

In a quick escalation of cross-border hostilities, India launched strikes overnight targeting six key Pakistani airbases, marking a military response to a series of recent drone attacks originating from across the border....