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Dhaka-Delhi relations drift amidst India’s growing concerns
by M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on September 06, 2020
DHAKA and Delhi have not said anything officially so far about why the Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla visited Dhaka in a special aircraft...
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Indian Oil, RR Holdings to form joint venture in Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 09:08pm on June 30, 2020
IOC Middle East FZE, Dubai, and RR Holdings Ltd., UAE, signed an agreement on Tuesday to form a fifty-fifty share joint venture company for LPG...
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Former Bangladesh foreign secretary Syed Muazzem Ali dies
Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 11:52pm on December 30, 2019
Syed Muazzem Ali, immediate past Bangladesh high commissioner to India, died at a hospital in Dhaka on Monday morning due to cardiac arrest and pneumonia....
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Bangladesh denies visa to India's West Bengal state minister
Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 12:40am on December 27, 2019
The government denied visa to West Bengal state minister and influential Muslim leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury, who was scheduled to reach Dhaka on Thursday on a...
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Bangladesh-India boundary conference begins
Ershad Kamol | Updated at 12:57am on December 24, 2019
The Bangladesh-India joint boundary conference began on Monday with participation of top survey officers, border guard officers and bureaucrats of the countries. The three-day conference...
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India’s PM lauds all-round progress of Bangladesh
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. New Delhi | Updated at 09:33pm on December 16, 2019
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday commended the remarkable progress that Bangladesh has made in every sector under the dynamic leadership of prime minister...
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Bangladesh foreign minister hopes India will follow procedures
Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 12:45am on December 16, 2019
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Sunday hoped that India would follow standard operating procedures on sending people to Bangladesh. ‘There is a standard procedure...
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Bangladesh diplomat’s convoy attacked, Indian HC summoned
Diplomatic Correspondent | Updated at 11:53pm on December 12, 2019
Bangladesh government summoned Indian high commissioner Riva Ganguly Das on Thursday evening and protested at the attack on the convoy of Bangladesh assistant high commissioner...
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India to use Bangladesh seaports without transit, customs fees
Shakhawat Hossain | Updated at 12:37am on December 06, 2019
There will be no transit charges and custom duties but administrative fees for India as it eyes trial run from January of transhipping cargos through...