【引用:The construction work on a 10-kilometre railway track directly linking southeastern Akhaura town in Bangladesh with Agartala, the capital of Indian state of Tripura, is set to begin later this year. 】
【引用:Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram's proposed visit to Bangladesh is expected to resolve several outstanding issues, Border Security Force (BSF) Director General Raman Srivastava said here Thursday. Relations between India and Bangladesh are very good. These w
【引用:Woolwich Crown Court has convicted Rajib Karim, an Asian-origin British Airways computer engineer who had plotted to blow up a plane, of four terror charges, including sharing information of use to hate groups.Thirty-one-year-old Karim from Newcastle, who is originally from Bangladesh, h
【引用:The US officials have told Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that 'there will be no further high-level diplomatic interaction' until the 'harassment' of Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus ends, a media report claimed Monday. This could include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's
【引用:The government in Dhaka said Tuesday it was working to evacuate Bangladeshi workers from Libya. 'We are in constant touch with international agencies concerned with the evacuation of Bangladeshi workers trapped in the turmoil,' Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said. 】
【引用:Meghalaya has sounded an alert following an outbreak of avian flu in Tripura and Bangladesh, Deputy Chief Minister for Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bindo M. Lanong said Friday. 'All veterinary officials, especially those posted on the Bangladesh border, have been asked to keep a close
【引用:Bangladesh will restore in its constitution the historic proclamation of independence made in April 1971. The proclamation is considered the interim constitution of Bangladesh. A special committee on constitutional amendment will decide how to incorporate it at an appropriate place in th
【引用:Aiming to boost bilateral trade ties, Mohammad Faruk Khan, Commerce Minister of Bangladesh visited the annual International Buyers and Sellers Meet in Guwahati on Friday .Khan is the first Commerce Minister of Bangladesh to visit Assam, indicating enhanced economic cooperation between th
【引用:Agartala/Guwahati, Feb 4 (IANS) A 6.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the entire northeast India and adjoining Myanmar and Bangladesh Friday evening, but no casualties were reported, officials said. According to meteorological department officials, the tremor occurred at around 7.24 p.m. in
【引用:The government will award the licences without any survey of the already dwindling reserve. Bangladesh shares the bay with neighbours India and Myanmar and several foreign trawlers from Asia-Pacific region also fish in the region. The expert's alarm came at a time when 44,000 fishing boa
【引用: Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its allies may return to parliament to aggressively take on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government, ending their boycott after eight months. BNP's better performance in civic polls and snatching a parliamentary seat from the ruli
【引用:RAB media wing director M. Sohael confirmed over phone that 30 chained people, including one woman, were rescued from the Ekota brick field around 8.30 p.m. He said the RAB personnel conducted the raid after a tip-off that several people were being forced to work at the field, and were t
【引用:Bangladesh and India have opened two land ports along the international border to boost bilateral trade and facilitate trading activity of neighbours Nepal and Bhutan. The simultaneous openings of the two land ports Saturday followed an understanding reached last year between the neighbo
【引用: The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ADCCI) held separate talks with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Portugal premier Jose Socrates to explore prospects of economic cooperation with the two countries. Fatima Al Jaber, member of the ADCCI, expressed readiness to e
【引用: Bangladesh will fight to establish its claim to 400 nautical miles of territorial waters in the Bay of Bengal disputed by neighbouring India and Myanmar, officials said Sunday. 'We will submit our claim to the UN over our maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal sometime next month,' Fore
【引用:Indian mobile handset brand Zen Mobiles plans to foray into Bangladesh by April in a joint venture with the neighbouring country's government and aims to sell ten lakh units per month in 2012, a top company official said here Wednesday. The company currently sells three lakh units per mo
【引用:'The responsibility of ruling the country had been bestowed on me due to a historical obligation in 1982,' he was quoted as saying Sunday, two days after the full text of the judgment delivered last August was made public. The ailing octogenarian lawmaker said a chaotic situation was pre
【引用:India is exploring the possibility of building transmission lines via Bangladesh to supply power to that country and to transmit electricity between the northeast and the rest of India, union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said Sunday. 'We should be very cooperative to meet the growi
【引用:Eight people, including seven Bangladesh nationals and an Afghan guard, were kidnapped in Balkh province on Saturday night,' Xinhua quoted interior ministry spokesman Zamarai Bashari as saying. The abducted men were employees of a South Korean road construction company, he said. 'No one
【引用:December 16 is celebrated as Vijay Divas or Victory Day, to mark the surrender of the Pakistan Army to the Indian armed forces and the Mukti Bahini comprising Bangaldesh freedom fighters. Several renowned Bangaldeshi singers like Sayed Abdul Hadi, Sahin Sabad, Papiya Saroar, Subir Nandi