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Humayun Kobir, Foreign Affairs Adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. Picture: Special Arrangement Bangladesh wants to build a relation with India that will be focused on “people to people” ties and that will not be limited to individuals and political parties, said a senior official of the current government led by Prime Minister Tarique…
A formal notification in this regard is yet to be issued by Bangladesh. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Days after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led (BNP) government took charge after scoring a major electoral win, Bangladesh is moving towards normalising visa facilities for Indian visitors, a diplomatic source has confirmed to The Hindu. However, a…
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Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The spiral of violence in Bangladesh which included the lynching of a Hindu man has elicited deep concern from India, especially in the light of recent threats by radical groups to Indian missions in the country. Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina believes that…
The regime change in Bangladesh following the 2024 uprising not only unsettled its domestic political landscape but also triggered strategic recalibrations across its neighbourhood. For India, the implications are profound. The two countries share not just contiguous territories, common resources, transboundary rivers, and adjacent maritime zones, but also people bound by a shared inheritance of…
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NSA Ajit Doval. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Amidst tense bilateral ties, Bangladesh’s National Security Adviser Khalilur Rahman has invited Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval to visit Dhaka. The invitation was extended by the Bangladesh side during a meeting between the two NSAs that took place in New Delhi on Wednesday (November 19, 2025)…
Ousted former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her return home hinges on the restoration of “participatory democracy”, lifting of the ban on the Awami League and the conduct of free, fair and inclusive elections. In an exclusive email interview to PTI from an undisclosed location in India, Ms. Hasina also accused the unelected…
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singhs. File | Photo Credit: ANI Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday (November 9, 2025) described Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s remarks, published in a section of Indian media, about Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus as “incorrect” and “not respectful”. “We consider that Singh’s comments are incorrect and unhelpful and not respectful of propriety…
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Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma. File | Photo Credit: AFP Bangladesh’s foreign ministry on Sunday (January 12, 2025) summoned Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma over border tensions. In an official press release Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka, Foreign Secretary Ambassador Md. Jashim Uddin said the Government of Bangladesh had “deep concern“…
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Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh’s interim government said on Monday (December 23, 2024) that it has sent a diplomatic note to India to send back deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Dhaka. Ms. Hasina, 77, has been living in exile in India since August 5 when she fled the…
Dhaka: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri arrives in Dhaka on Monday morning to discuss bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh, officials said. This is the first high-level official visit after the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus took over in Bangladesh. The visit comes amid recent reports of rise in violence against minorities in Bangladesh and…
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