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Teesta water pact soon: Rajnath Singh

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said India and Bangladesh would soon approve Teesta water sharing agreement. “Both the countries will give their approval to it very soon. We are hopeful that we will get full cooperation from the West Bengal government”, Singh said at a press conference in Kolkata. Rajnath-Singh-AFP1The Home Minister’s statement came ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s upcoming visit to Dhaka. On the Land Boundary Agreement between the two countries, Singh said “The land boundary issu...

What PM Modi will focus on during his Bangladesh trip

Next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be starting on his yet another foreign trip, this time to a country with which we share the longest land border exceeding 4,000 km — Bangladesh.

Modi’s Bangladesh visit would be laden with a strategic agenda and will have the potential to be the most substantive visit he has undertaken till now to any of the SAARC countries. If all goes well, pm-narendra-modi_650x400_51424803339his visit to Bangladesh would put a primary structure of ...

Dhaka, Colombo to enhance cooperation on fishing sector

Bangladesh High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Mr. Tarik Ahsan paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Mr. Mahinda Amraweera at the New Secretariat in Colombo on 20 May 2015. The Secretary to the Ministry Mr. Nimal Lanka-BDHettiarachchi was also present during the call. The High Commissioner was accompanied by a two-member business delegation from Bangladesh comprising Mr. Sarwar Hussain and Mr. Azizus Samad Azad Dawn. During the meeting, the Bangladesh High Commissioner sought the support of the Ministe...

PM Modi’s visit to Bangladesh being worked out: Envoy

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s visit to Bangladesh likely in the first week of June, the country‘s envoy Syed Moazzem Ali on Thursday expressed happiness over the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh being “finally settled”. On the other long-pending issue of Teesta water sharing accord, the envoy said there was need for greater collaboration between the two countries to “conclude Teesta as soon as possible”. pm-narendra-modi_650x400_51424803339Ali expressed his “dee...

Direct bus between Agartala, Kolkata via Bangladesh likely

A direct bus service between Agartala and Kolkata through Bangladesh is expected to be finalised during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s forthcoming visit to Dhaka, Tripura’s new Governor Tathagata Roy said here Wednesday. bd-india“I have learned that the direct bus service between Agartala and Kolkata via Bangladesh is expected to be finalised when Prime Minister visits Dhaka next month,” Roy told reporters after the swearing-in ceremony. He said it would “open a new era in the India-Bangladesh relations” and that “the people of Tripura and ...

Boat-people being ransomed off Bangladesh

The horror of human trafficking through South East Asia has taken another nightmarish twist with passengers now being ransomed to return home to Bangladesh, say reliable sources. Human cargoes had been loaded on board as many as 16 vessels, ready for delivery to the Thai-Malaysia border, when Thai authorities finally exposed scores of graves near the traffickers’ secret jungle camps earlier this month. rohingyaCutting off the huge illegal trade in people left thousands stranded at sea by the no-go nations, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia - plus tho...
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