Regarding bilateral ties and international diplomacy, the idea of mutual benefit usually takes the front stage. This background helps one to understand the current Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing on transit between Bangladesh and India. On the other hand, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has adopted a somewhat opposite position a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said her government will receive the most beneficial proposal for the country and its people over implementing the Teesta master plan project. "We have taken Teesta projects. China and India have given separate proposals to implement the project. We must accept the proposal which will be more beneficial for th...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the joint inauguration of three India-assisted development schemes demonstrated the rare friendship and mutual cooperation between Dhaka and New Delhi, hoping that the existing relationship will be enhanced further in future. "We (Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and me) today jointly inaugurated three...
Hiren Pandit: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met in a bilateral meeting at Lok Kalyan Marg in New Delhi recently on the occasion of G20. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held a whole-hearted meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The meeting was held at Narendra Modi's residence. At the end of ...
Pranab Kumar Panday: The visit of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India has been the subject of many conversations over the last few days. While the ruling party takes the PM's trip seriously, the opposition still seeks to discredit it. Experts agree that the bilateral negotiations between India and Bangladesh's heads of gover...
Sukharanjan Dasgupta: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has claimed that PM Sheikh Hasina is "unable to deal with India". Bangladesh's Islamist opposition too seems to be on an overdrive to belittle Hasina whenever she is on a visit to India. But these high-pitch allegations ring hollow. Let's ask Mirza Fakhrul what his party ...
Bangladesh and India have agreed to work towards ensuring zero deaths at the border, according to a joint statement. The two nations also expressed satisfaction that the number of incidents at the border has gone down significantly, according to a joint statement released today (September 7, 2022) after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held compreh...
Bangladesh and India have agreed to further strengthen cooperation in the areas of connectivity, food security, energy, trade, common rivers, water management, cyber-security, and climate change. According to a joint statement issued by the neighbouring countries on Wednesday, Bangladesh sought a "predictable supply" of food items, growth in bi...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the relationship between Bangladesh and India goes far beyond strategic partnership and has further strengthened during the last decade. "Having forged a strong partnership over the last 50 years, both countries are working on an increasingly wide range of sectoral collaboration," she said. Mentioning th...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called Bangladesh the most liberal nation for investment, urging Indian investors to invest largely in her country's infrastructure, manufacturing, energy and transport sectors. "I would urge Indian investors to consider possible investments in infrastructure projects, manufacturing, in energy and transport secto...
The Awami League never compromises when it comes to demanding and collecting the country's fair share, despite India's historical debt to the Bengali nation for its role in the Liberation War. The Awami League-led government has managed to maintain friendly relations with neighbouring India while obtaining fair shares. It was once again the Awam...
Bangladesh and India on Tuesday signed seven Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) demonstrating cooperation in a number of areas including water sharing of the Kushiyara River. One of the signed MoUs is the withdrawal of 153 cusec water from the Kushiyara River by Bangladesh under the upper Surma-Kushiyara project, Sylhet via Rahimpur Another Mo...
Statement of Hon’ble Prime Minister H. E. Sheikh Hasinafor the Press Briefing Hyderabad House, New Delhi06 September 2022 Hon’ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi,Members of the Cabinet from Bangladesh and India,Dear Friends from the Press and Media,Ladies and Gentlemen, Assalamualaikum, Namashkar and Good Afternoon! Thank...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called bilateral relations between Bangladesh-India role model for neighbourhood diplomacy, hoping all the outstanding issues, including Teesta Water Sharing Treaty, will be resolved soon likewise many issues solved in the spirit of friendship and cooperation. "I reiterated that India is the most importan...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has emphasised on furthering India-Bangladesh relations and said that any problem can be solved with friendship. Hasina spoke at a reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on the second day of her visit to India. “India is our friend. Whenever I come here, it’s a pleasure for me, especially beca...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (April 28, 2022) emphasized the importance of improving connectivity between Bangladesh and India for mutual benefit, saying that steps have been initiated to reopen various cross-border roads between the two nations that were closed in 1965. "We need to improve our connectivity. India's North Eastern province...
As the Pakistani junta started a conspiracy to eliminate the Bengali nation soon after the landslide victory of the Awami League-led by Bangabandhu in the 1970’s general election, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman started preparing the nation for armed resistance. His call for non-cooperation deactivated the power of the Pakistani administ...
Approximately one crore Bengalis took shelter in India when the Pakistani junta started crackdown and genocide on the ordinary people in Bengal in 1971. Indian government showed humanity to our ancestors like the Awami League government does to the Rohingyas who were persecuted by the Myanmar army. India also withdrew its troops from Bangladesh ...
Millions of Bengalis started fleeing the country towards neighbouring India to save their lives when the Pakistani junta started mass killings and rapes on the night of March 25, 1971. In such backdrops, India opened its border to give shelter for more than one crore Bengali refugees, 15% of the total population, in its nine states during the ni...
It was 1971. There was no Facebook, YouTube or any other social media like now. So, it was very difficult to get accurate information from outside about what was actually happening in Bengal. People from Europe, America and Africa got little information through a few international newspapers as it was difficult to broadcast the real news even on...
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