“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 [...]
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 RANI D. MULLEN, SUMIT GANGULY India’s soft power has now been on display for at least a couple of decades: Indian philosophy has captivated Western minds since the 1960s; Bollywood’s prodigious celluloid fare has long drawn huge audiences in significant parts of Asia, Africa, and beyond; India’s English-language novelists have often edged out native [...]
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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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By: Udayan Namboodiri In an effort to contain the risk of extremism spilling over borders and destabilising the region, India is lending support to Afghanistan’s efforts to build its economy. As a first step, Indian leaders have pledged to help Afghanistan attract foreign direct investment (FDI) for reconstruction. Policy makers hope that creating jobs and [...]
Continue reading …The country on Sunday announced that it will write off $200 million of the $1 billion line of credit offered to Bangladesh, and promised to implement all bilateral agreements, including those that have witnessed delays. India had announced a $1 billion Line of Credit to Bangladesh, the largest it has offered to any country in 2010. [...]
Continue reading …M. Serajul Islam By the end of this year, India will complete fencing the 4053km border with Bangladesh that it started 25 years ago. India started building the fence to stop Bangladeshis in large numbers from illegally migrating to India. At various times, India has stated that 10 to 20 million Bangladeshis were illegally living [...]
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British journalists Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark specialise in investigative journalism and have worked for UK’s The Sunday Times and The Guardian for nearly 18 years. Honoured with ‘Foreign Correspondents of the Year’ award in 2004 and ‘British Journalists of the Year’ award in 2009, they’ve co-authored three books including the much-admired Deception, exposing America’s [...]
Continue reading …India lifts ban on cotton exports; additional Indian cotton is likely to go to Bangladesh.
April 30, 2012 No CommentThe Indian government today allowed fresh cotton exports, easing a two month old restriction, after members of Congress party and its allies demanded review in the interest of cotton farmers’. “After a comprehensive review (by a ministerial panel) it was decided that suspension of new registrations for cotton exports be revoked and exports be permitted,” [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading …By: Obaid Chowdhury Awami leaders never tire of telling all and sundry that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) of Bangladesh before his arrest on the night of March 25, 1971. Even their administration-orchestrated court verdict and the constitutional fixing do not seem to be enough.I do not recall Sheikh Mujib [...]
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By: Udayan Namboodiri India and the EU will be working together to help tackle a problem that has dealt severe harm to international shipping The worst affected areas lie off the coast of Somalia, Yemen, the Singapore Strait and Indonesia,” explains the EU’s new ambassador to India, Joao Cravinho. In 2011, according to International Maritime [...]
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