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Bangladesh wants to reset ties with India on a fresh footing now that ousted premier Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League party no longer hold power, Humayun Kabir, adviser to BNP Chairman Tarique Rahman, has said, asserting that the two nations should work together for “mutual benefit”. Mr. Rahman’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Friday…
Supporters cheer near the chairman office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), a day after the national parliamentary election in Dhaka on February 13, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh will take a decision on the renewal of the 1996 Ganga Water Treaty based on its “national interest”, according to Humaiun Kobir, foreign affairs adviser…
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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A large number of people, under the banner of “July Oyikko” (July Unity), hold a protest march to the Indian High Commission, in Dhaka on December 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The developments in Bangladesh pose the “greatest strategic challenge” to India since the Liberation War of 1971, a Parliamentary panel has said in…
“Our decisions will be guided by national interest, sovereign equality, and mutual respect,” Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain said. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Against the backdrop of continued tension with India because of the continued presence of former PM Sheikh Hasina on Indian soil, the Foreign Affairs Advisor of the interim government of Bangladesh…
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The Chief of Bangladesh’s border guarding force on Thursday appeared to downplay the attacks on minorities in his country that took place after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, saying such reports were “exaggerated”. “Such attacks did not happen. In fact, the Hindus in Bangladesh celebrated Durga puja. The law enforcing agencies have been…
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Bangladesh on Sunday (January 5, 2024) cancelled the visit by a delegation of its judicial officials to India. In a circular, the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs said the officials who were scheduled to attend a training programme in Bhopal between February 10 and 20 has been cancelled. The cancellation is being interpreted as a…
New Delhi: India and Bangladesh on Thursday announced that they will kick-start a process of reciprocal repatriation of fishermen in each other’s custody, a move that came amid strain in their bilateral ties. Shortly after Bangladesh said it will hand over 95 Indian fishermen to Indian authorities on January 5, India said it will release…
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Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik Hasina, is an IT entrepreneur based in the U.S. and has been an ICT adviser in Ms. Hasina’s government. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Sajeeb Wazed, son of deposed Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has accused the Muhammad Yunus led interim government of “weaponising the judiciary”…
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…