Despite decades-old disputes over sharing of waters between Bangladesh and India, notably from the Teesta river, Dhaka hopes it can finalise a host of treaties with New Delhi.
"Modalities need to be found for the sharing of water resources, especially of common waters," Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the BIMSTEC Summit in this Myanmar capital.
"As, for example, Bangladesh and India are sharing the waters of river Ganga with the signing of the 30-year-old Ganges Water Sharing Treaty, with others to follow soon," she said at the summit, where the Indian side is being led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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China has donated 50 ambulances and calamity rescue equipment to the country's Fire Service and Civil Defense as a token of friendship of the Chinese people towards Bangladesh.
Li Jun, Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, handed over the ambulances and calamity rescue equipment to the Bangladesh authorities in a ceremony on Tuesday morning, reports Xinhua.
Bangladeshi State-Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan, while thanking and expressing gratitude to the Chinese government and its people for the ...
The third Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit got underway in the Myanmar’s capital Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday with a high hope for refreshing and strengthening regional cooperation.
Chairman of BIMSTEC and President of host country Myanmar Thein Sein inaugurated the third conference of the seven nation regional organization in the morning after six years of the second summit held in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina along with other heads of states and governments as well as representatives of the member countries attended the inaugural session of the Summit.
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The Indian prime ministerial candidate of BJP, Narendra Modi said Hindu migrants from Bangladesh must be accommodated in the country and detention camps would be done away with once his party comes to power.
“As soon as we come to power at the Centre, detention camps housing Hindu migrants from Bangladesh will be done away with,” Mr Modi told a public rally at Ramnagar in Assam on Saturday.
“We have a responsibility toward Hindus who are harassed and suffer in other countries. Where will they go? India is the only place for them. Our government cannot continue to harass them. We will have to accommodate them here,” he said.
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Bangladesh has urged Saudi authorities to reconsider the 20 percent cut in quota of foreign Haj pilgrims and also to implement the electronic web portal service for Haj from this year to expedite various Haj processes.
Bangladesh Religious Affairs Minister Mohammed Mutiur Rahman discussed these two vital subjects with Saudi Haj Minister Dr. Bandar Al Hajar on Sunday when he met with him at his office in Jeddah, Mohammad Nazmul Islam, Bangladesh consul general said.
“We discussed a wide range of subjects related to improvement of Haj services to pil...
According to media reports in Kolkata and Dhaka, at a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Seikh Hasina, a...
According to media reports in Kolkata and Dhaka, at a meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Seikh Hasina, a...
