This move is set to impact over $600 million worth of exports from Dhaka. Action comes following India's cancellation of the transshipment agreement with Bangladesh last month.
At BIMSTEC ministerial meeting, the EAM highlights the importance of India’s Northeast for the region, in the wake of Yunus’s ‘ocean guardian’ remark for Bangladesh in China.
In exclusive interview with ThePrint, ambassador to Thailand Nagesh Singh says both countries have 'common threat perceptions'. Modi to be in Bangkok this week for bilateral & BIMSTEC.
According to a high-level official, Nepal has already sent a request to India and is awaiting confirmation. The 6th BIMSTEC Summit is scheduled between 2 and 4 April in Bangkok, Thailand.
Bangladeshi Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain sought Jaishankar’s support to revive SAARC last weekend. India boycotted a SAARC summit in Pakistan after 2016 Uri terrorist attack.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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