DHAKA: Bangladesh cannot be intimidated with “barbed wire”, PM Tarique Rahman’s foreign affairs adviser Humaiun Kobir said Monday as the new BJP govt in West Bengal in its first cabinet meeting decided to transfer land to Border Security Force (BSF) for fencing the border with Bangladesh.Targetting Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari, he said election rhetoric and […]
NEW DELHI: As India and Bangladesh look to work towards a pragmatic reset in ties, Bangladesh high commissioner Riaz Hamidullah Friday called on external affairs minister S Jaishankar and also commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal.Jaishankar said that the conversation with Hamidullah was focused on advancing bilateral ties. In a social media post about the […]
Foreign secretary Vikram Misri (File photo) DHAKA: Indian foreign secretary Vikram Misri on Tuesday held a courtesy meeting with Bangladesh’s leader of opposition and chief of the country’s largest Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), Shafiqur Rahman.India has had a troubled past with Pakistan-leaning Jamaat-e-Islami which sided with Islamabad during the 1971 War of Liberation. The BNP-Jamaat […]
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will represent India at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected govt of Bangladesh led by Tarique Rahman, chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), in Dhaka on Feb 17. Foreign secretary Vikram Misri will accompany him, according to official sources.BNP had invited PM Narendra Modi for the oath […]
NEW DELHI: Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Riaz Hamidullah on Wednesday said external affairs minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Dhaka would help India and Bangladesh script a new chapter in bilateral ties, guided by shared interests, pragmatism and mutual interdependence.In a post on X, Hamidullah wrote, “As Hon External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar left […]
DHAKA: PM Narendra Modi and Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus will hold talks on the margins of the BIMSTEC summit in Thailand on April 3-4, according to reports quoting a source in Yunus’ office.While Dhaka has sought a meeting between the two, New Delhi continues to maintain that it is looking into the request, not […]
