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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
TopicIndia-Bangladesh

Topic: India-Bangladesh

‘Good old days of bonhomie’ between New Delhi and Dhaka won’t be easy

India and Bangladesh should remain alert and remember that Turkey’s increasing role in Dhaka’s defence capabilities goes against India’s security and strategic interests.

Tarique Rahman’s govt is on a mission of de-Yunusification. It will fix India-Bangladesh ties

Going forward, India and Bangladesh will have to double the effort to fix the damage done to bilateral ties by the Yunus administration.

Once criticised by BNP, outgoing NSA Khalilur Rahman to be foreign minister in Tarique’s Cabinet

Khalilur's inclusion in 50-member Cabinet, led by Tarique Rahman, represents a striking turnaround as BNP sought his resignation last year over comments on Tarique’s citizenship.

India shouldn’t romanticise 1971, Bangladesh wants transactional ties now

Bangladesh’s recent post-election shift has reduced its India-centric narrative, urging realistic diplomacy.

Gen Ziaur, Khaleda Zia & now Tarique Rahman: tracing India-Bangladesh ties during BNP years

India–Bangladesh ties have historically witnessed strain during BNP. As Tarique Rahman prepares to take charge, will past patterns persist or give way to new diplomatic script?

Ban to breakthrough—Jamaat ends political exile, redraws Bangladesh’s opposition landscape

Party’s registration was cancelled in 2013. Its reinstatement before 2026 polls reopened doors for a party many considered was sidelined indefinitely.

Global media on why Delhi is ‘invested’ in Bangladesh polls & ‘secular India’s icon Muhammed Deepak’

FT reports on Delhi looking at Dhaka closely, new AI rules; BBC interviews Uttarakhand gym owner; AP looks at farmers protesting India-US trade deal; The Guardian revisits Indian trains.

‘This is Pune, won’t let it turn into JNU’—how BJYM stormed college event over a Bangladesh flag

Members of the BJP's youth wing entered MIT-WPU campus during a cultural fest and vandalised Bangladesh stall. University says it will file a police complaint.

Dear Narendrabhai, Bangladesh polls give India space to hit reset button

By next weekend, Bangladesh will have an elected government. This is India’s moment to reboot broken ties by moderating the ‘ghuspethiya’ rhetoric in poll-bound West Bengal and Assam.

‘Constructive’ ties with India, no mention of Pakistan—inside Bangladesh Jamaat’s poll manifesto

Bangladesh's largest Islamist party also pledges to include a 'significant number of women' in the Cabinet and speaks of achieving a $2 trillion economy by 2040.

On Camera

Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.