“India abetted terror in Sri Lanka in the mid-1980s” : Role played by New Delhi needs intensive discussion, says Rajapaksa’s Secretary
By: R. K. Radhakrishnan The Indian intelligence agencies had a big hand in planning and executing terrorist strikes in Colombo in the mid-eighties, the President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga said. Reading from a book, Gota’s War, at its launch here, he said the role India played in Sri Lanka needed “intensive discussion.” He described the events [...]
India-Pakistan and the bomb: Iran is rigidly fighting against the western nuclear regime to have its own bomb
May 16, 2012 1 CommentBy: Amit Ranjan Possession of the nuclear bomb by India and Pakistan is a reality and this status cannot be either reversed or changed despite anti-nuclear protests or global civil society’s effort of de-nuclearisation. India and Pakistan, 14 years ago in the month of May, overtly conducted nuclear tests and declared themselves as nuclear powers. [...]
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Kolkata: Bangladesh wants speedy resolution of the visa problems being faced by its nationals who travel to India for medical treatment or to visit their relatives. Urging India to ease the visa rules, Bangladesh Liberation War Affairs Minister Capt (Retd) AB Tazul Islam on Sunday said the issue had been discussed at the foreign secretary level [...]
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Pakistan said Friday (May 11th) it would host the next round of talks with India over the disputed Siachen Glacier, dubbed the world’s highest battlefield, on June 11th and 12th in Islamabad, AFP reported. Troops from India and Pakistan have faced off on the glacier in the mountains of disputed Kashmir since the 1980s but [...]
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By: Swadesh Roy Bangladesh shares land boundary with two countries; one is India and another is Myanmar. In 4289km land boundary of Bangladesh, Bangladesh shares only 193 km with Myanmar; another 4096 km boundary is shared with India. It is one of the longest borders between two countries. It is the 3rd longest border between [...]
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Hillary and the Prime Minister discussed several issues related to Indo-US relations. She also urged India to speed up the civil nuclear deal and cut oil imports from Iran. According to [...]
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All eyes are on the meeting between US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday in Kolkata, amid speculation that Hillary may quiz Banerjee about her opposition to the Teesta water sharing agreement with Bangladesh. This would be unusual and may have a whole lot of unintended [...]
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ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s prime minister was Thursday convicted for refusing to reopen a corruption investigation against the president, in a case that could see him thrown out of office. The Supreme Court found Yousuf Raza Gilani guilty of contempt over his refusal to obey an order to write to the authorities in Switzerland to [...]
Continue reading …By: Rezaul Karim Dhaka and New Delhi will host two ministerial-level exchange visits in May to review the agreements made during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India in January 2010 and her Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh’s trip here in September last year. Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will arrive in Dhaka on a two-day [...]
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Disputing the government’s claim of winning the maritime boundary case against Myanmar, opposition BNP on Tuesday invited the government to face a national debate on the issue to prove which side Bangladesh has actually won it. “BNP is ready to participate in a national debate anytime to make it clear which side Bangladesh has won [...]
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India’s Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia yesterday said a variety of environmental, economic and technical issues need to be settled before implementation of the ambitious inter-linking of rivers. Referring to the Himalayan component of rivers inter-linking, Ahluwalia said “effective exploitation” of capacity of these rivers is critically dependent on the international agreements. “It [...]
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The Communist Party of India (M) demanded measures to protect the rights of Bengalis from erstwhile East Bengal (now Bangladesh) and solving the problem of suspected foreigners living illegally in Assam through judicial process, an Indian newspaper reported. In a resolution adopted at its 20th party congress that concluded on Monday, the party urged the [...]
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