Series of snubs: Padma Bridge, Teesta water and cricket
India has enjoyed free ride or transit without any fee for months as a major gain whereas any tangible favourable outcome for Bangladesh is yet to be visible. Several perplexing, bizarre and outlandish utterances by certain advisers to the prime minister led even some ruling alliance members to question whether these advisers work for the [...]
Transport expert Rahmatullah says earnings to shoot up once total infrastructure in place Bangladesh could earn about $44 million a year by providing transit to India and its neighbours over the first five years while developing infrastructure for the facility, a transport expert said yesterday. If the infrastructure was ready in five years, Bangladesh would [...]
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M. Shahidul Islam Curving out an access through the sovereign turf of another country without any codified legal instrument is prohibited by customary international law. As a legal tangle is set to turn much of what is being done with respect to Indian connectivity throughBangladeshworthless and illegal, the two governments [...]
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Rejaul Karim Byron India has agreed to nearly double the annual maintenance fees it pays to Bangladesh for using waterways facilities under a protocol between the two countries. Currently, India pays Tk 5.50 crore in fees. India’s consent to raise the fees to Tk 10 crore came when officials of the two sides met [...]
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DHAKA, FEB 1: India now hopes to ship 35,000 metric tons of food grain from Kolkata to Tripura using Ashuganj port, despite the fact that the trial run period on the Bangladeshi facility has expired. The Indian government has placed a request with Bangladesh to allow use of the shipment facilities on sovereign territory, in [...]
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Bangladesh seeks an expeditious resolution of the contentious Teesta River water treaty issue. Saying his country was paying “huge” costs for lengthy negotiations, Bangladesh representative Tariq Ahmed Karim also underlined the need for speedy redress of all long-pending bilateral issues with India, saying it was necessary for equitable distribution of natural resources between the two [...]
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by Bangladesh Chronicle U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton recently met with Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni in Washington D.C. in mid-October. The two reaffirmed what they called “strong ties” between the U.S. and Bangladesh. The Awami League government, eager to castigate any and all parties who played less than a supportive role during [...]
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Dhaka, Oct 19 (PTI) Nine Indian trucks today crossed into Bangladesh”s north-eastern borders marking the formal launch of a regularised transit of goods to Agartala, even as Premier Sheikh Hasina visited her country”s enclave via the Tinbigha corridor in West Bengal. Hasina said the two neighbours were expected to soon begin exchange of cross-border enclaves [...]
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Friday, October 7, 2011 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Washington DC, USA Moderator : F. Inderfurth, CSIS Senior Advisor and Wadhwani Chairholder in US-India Policy Studies Subject : Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent trip to Dhaka for his summit with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the next steps for Indo-Bangladesh relations [...]
Continue reading …by Farrukh Ahmed Confusion and contradiction continue to increasingly dominate the public mind over the transit/corridor issue. A new question that captured much of the public discourse in the capital last week was related to whether the government has already given permission to India to start using the overland road transit facility to its north-eastern [...]
Continue reading …by Jyoti Malhotra Source - WSJ Online As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh climbed into Air India One at the end of his visit to Dhaka last week, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her entire Cabinet lined up on the tarmac. There they waited not only until the plane began taxiing for take off, but until [...]
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