Foreign minister Jaishankar also spoke about proposal for rail link between Bhutan & Assam, besides another to let Nepal and Bangladesh use India's grids for cross-border power trade.
Whether or not this is the beginning of the de-dollarisation of the globe’s most popular currency is another debate. The rupee-rupee trade is good for Hasina and for India.
Sanctioned in 2003, signed by both countries in 2013, project will facilitate faster movement of passengers and goods between India & Bangladesh, promote economic development in Tripura.
Chasing a target of 513, Bangladesh were bowled out for 324 in the morning session of day five as Axar Patel picked four wickets in the second innings while Kuldeep Yadav took three.
116 Bangladeshis are in India to participate in event being held in Assam's Cachar district to celebrate 75 years of India’s Independence & 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s liberation from Pakistan.
Silchar-Sylhet Festival, to be held this October in Assam, seeks to celebrate cross-border Sylheti culture. It will 'showcase tribal culture, cuisine, arts, crafts, entertainment'.
Modi govt needs to engage with the costs a Teesta deal will have on West Bengal farmers. But it also can't ignore the cost of a hostile govt and civil society in Bangladesh.
New Delhi and Dhaka Tuesday decided to share Kushiyara waters, the first such deal since the Ganga river pact of 1996. Bangladesh PM Hasina says Teesta will also happen soon.
Israel's response to Iran's retaliatory attack was relatively small and also downplayed by Tehran. But there are factors that could jeopardise this perceived reprieve.
The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.
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