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Setting aside the tensions of the past eight months in their first meeting since the regime change in Dhaka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh’s Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus held talks on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC regional summit in Bangkok on Friday (April 4, 2025). While both leaders raised contentious issues — including India’s…
Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. | Photo Credit: Reuters After a brief disruption in ties, India and Bangladesh have resumed official-level talks to firm up plans for a visit by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to New Delhi, diplomatic sources have confirmed. Bilateral relations took a hit after the virtual press conference by former Bangladesh Prime…
Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is keen to visit India at the earliest but is concerned about take away points and achievements that he will have to produce before his audience back home after a visit of this nature, said a diplomatic source of Bangladesh to…
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Khalilur Rahman assumed charge as President of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly on September 8, 2026, taking over the presidency of the world body’s annual session. | Photo Credit: X/@UN UN General Assembly President and Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman offered no word on whether Prime Minister Tarique Rahman would attend the…
The story so far: Bangladesh on Sunday (August 16, 2026) urged India to create a “propitious environment” for enabling Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s visit to India by extraditing deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Ms. Hasina, who has been based in India since fleeing Dhaka on August 5, 2024, addressed a press conference at the Foreign…
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman took office in February and has since visited Malaysia and China, departing from the tradition of Bangladeshi leaders heading to India for their first overseas trip. File | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh said on Sunday (August 16, 2026) that Prime Minister Tarique Rahman would not visit India until New Delhi…
In this image posted on August 10, 2026, High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi, right, during a meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. | Photo Credit: X/@ihcdhaka via PTI India and Bangladesh are in talks for an early bilateral visit by Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to New Delhi, preferably…
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Sheikh Hasina, the then Prime Minister of Bangladesh. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Continued political activities by deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from Indian territory “could harm” bilateral relations, the Government of Bangladesh conveyed to India on Monday (August 3, 2026) through Humayun Kobir, the Foreign Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman. Mr….
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‘An influential segment within the BNP feel that as a goodwill gesture towards the new government, India should have reversed some of the retributory steps that it had taken during the interim government’s rule under Muhammad Yunus’. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto More than hundred days have passed since the Tarique Rahman government took charge…
External Affairs Minister Jaishankar with Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman, left, in New Delhi, on April 8, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh “reiterated” its demand for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s extradition during talks in Delhi, said Bangladesh Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman in Port Louis, Mauritius, on Friday (April 10, 2026), also outlooking a…