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- Chinese merchants cash in on World Cup fever
Beijing, June 18: Till the early hours of dawn, many parts of Beijing remain alive with the chinking sound of glasses and cheerings, mingled with the sound of vuvuzela trumpets coming from the ....
- Afghan mineral deposits worth up to $3 trillion
Kabul, June 17: Initial discoveries of untapped mineral deposits in poverty-stricken Afghanistan are "worth up to three trillion dollars", the country's mines minister said today.
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- Indian embassy shelters Nepali students in Kyrgyzstan
Kathmandu, June 17: Nearly two dozen Nepali students stranded in violence-hit Kyrgyzstan have been given safe haven in the Indian embassy in the Central Asian country's capital Bishkek, Nep....
- ITBP discovers ancient route to Kailash Mansarovar
New Delhi, June 17: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) has discovered a lost trekking stretch connected to the Kailash Mansarovar pilgrimage route and documented all related information in a....
- Indian experts to learn Chinese foodgrain storage methods
New Delhi, June 17: India will send a team of technical experts to China to study the warehouse construction and foodgrain preservation methods, Minister of State for Agriculture K.V. Thomas sa....
- Tripura Congress protests China's plans of dam over Brahmaputra
Agartala, June 15: China's reported plans of construction of a dam over the Brahmaputra river and diverting water to its arid regions were today strongly opposed by Congress legislators in ....
- Bangladesh jails have 349 Indians
Dhaka, June 14: Bangladesh's jails have 1,048 foreign nationals, including 349 Indians, Home Minister Sahara Khatun informed parliament today.
The others include 666 Myanmarese, 2....
- End row over maritime boundary, Dhaka tells Delhi
Dhaka, June 14: Bangladesh is open to "an amicable settlement" of its maritime boundary disputes with India and Myanmar though it has sought UN involvement, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni h....
- Former Tamil rebels wed in Sri Lanka
Colombo, June 13: Fifty-three former Tamil rebel couples in northern Sri Lanka were wed in a mass ceremony today, an official said.
Most of the couples had met when they were members ....
- Talks on for reopening India-Bangladesh border markets
Shillong, June 11: Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today said the opening of border 'haats' (markets) between India and Bangladesh is in the advanced stage of approval by both nei....
- It's homely to be in Shimla, says Shiranthi Rajapaksa
Shimla, June 10: "It is nice and homely to be in this town," said Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's wife Shiranthi as she took a casual stroll through the streets of this Him....
- Indian cabinet okays cost hike for Afghan power project
New Delhi, June 10: India will spend about Rs 800 crore (about $18 million) in a hydro power project in Herat province of western Afghanistan.
The Indian cabinet Thursday approved a c....
- Sri Lankan minister says ready to face legal action
New Delhi, June 10: Sri Lankan minister Douglas Devananda, who was declared a proclaimed offender by a Chennai court in 1986 and is accompanying President Mahinda Rajapaksa on his India visit, ....
- Let economics drive our relations, Bangladesh envoy tells India
New Delhi, June 10: Bangladesh has urged India to open its doors wider to allow duty-free goods and reach a "meaningful" free trade agreement (FTA) to facilitate a "convergence (of ....
- PM presses for meaningful devolution, Rajapaksa assures action
New Delhi, June 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today urged Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa to initiate a "meaningful devolution package" and called for "urgent steps" to....
- Manmohan, Rajapaksa discuss Tamil settlement issue
New Delhi, June 9: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today discussed with Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa India's concerns on the plight of displaced Tamils and pressed for a political se....
- Dialogue only way to solve water disputes: Bangladesh
New Delhi, June 8: Disputes over the crucial issue of water can only be solved by dialogue, Bangladesh's High Commissioner Tariq Ahmed Kari said here today.
Speaking at a round-ta....
- Exiles discussing ways to carry forward talks with China
Dharamsala, June 8: A two-day meeting of Tibetan exiles took place here today to discuss ways to carry forward the dialogue process with the Chinese to solve the Tibetan issue.
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- India will develop national highway linking Bangladesh
Agartala, June 8: After deciding to construct a bridge over the Feni river in south Tripura to get access to the Chittagong port in Bangladesh, India has decided to convert the connecting two-l....
- India, Sri Lanka to discuss Tamil settlement, sign pacts
New Delhi, June 8: Sri Lanka will brief India on the post-war political reconciliation plan and sign a slew of pacts to expand cooperation in areas ranging from counter-terrorism to development....
- After Delhi talks, Rajapaksa heads to Shimla
New Delhi, June 7: After wrapping up official talks in New Delhi, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa will on Thursday head to the cooler climes of Shimla, an unusual destination for visiting....
- Sri Lanka's only Tamil chief minister visits India
New Delhi, June 7: Formerly a Tamil Tiger child soldier, Sri Lanka's only Tamil chief minister is visiting India to learn a little more about how to run local self government.
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- Sri Lanka's president to visit India
Colombo, June 7: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to begin a three-day visit to India on Tuesday and will meet with his counterpart Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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- Dhaka, Delhi to talk boundary disputes next month
Dhaka, June 6: The Joint Boundary Working Group of Bangladesh and India is expected to meet next month to comprehensively address long-pending land boundary disputes, a media report quoting off....
- Boundary disputes between India, Bangladesh soon to resolve
Shillong, June 5: India's Home Secretary G.K. Pillai on Friday said the boundary disputes between India and Bangladesh will be resolved as a working group of both countries will meet soon. ....
- India to learn about foodgrain storage from China
New Delhi, June 5: An Indian delegation leaves for China on Monday to study advanced foodgrain storage technology, with a huge quantity of grain rotting in India due to lack of such facilities.....
- 108 killed in Dhaka fire
Dhaka, June 4: At least 108 people were killed and over 100 injured in a devastating fire here in the Bangladesh capital on Thursday night, officials said.
The fire broke out in a che....
- Mandira Bedi still 'Shanti' for Sri Lankans
New Delhi, June 3: Mandira Bedi, who became popular after playing the title role in the 1990s' TV serial "Shanti", says she is still remembered by the character's name in Sri La....
- IIFA comes at a critical moment for Sri Lanka: Jacqueline Fernandez
Mumbai, June 1: Sri Lanka is in a new era of peace after winning its long fought war against the Tamil Tigers, says actress Jacqueline Fernandez, elated that the IIFA Awards are being held in h....
- India, China should take care of each other's concerns: Patil
Shanghai, May 31: India and China need to develop models of economic cooperation which will take into account each other's concerns, President Pratibha Patil said here today. On the last da....
- Why does China keep seeking reassurances on Tibet?
New Delhi, May 31: It would have been amusing were it not gratuitous for Beijing to raise the Tibet issue with India's visiting President Pratibha Patil. China has ingrained Tibet so much i....
- Chinese leaders showed commitment to boosting ties: President
Shanghai, May 29: Visiting Indian President Pratibha Patil today said the Chinese leaders' commitment to strengthening ties with India was evident in her interactions with them over the pas....
- China 'understands' India, but offers no support for UNSC seat
Beijing, May 27: China still stopped short of expressing outright support for India's Security Council aspirations, even as Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao described as a "forward....
- President Patil sticks to veggie fare at Chinese banquet
Beijing, May 27: A sumptuous state banquet was presented in honour of visiting Indian President Pratibha Patil by Chinese President Hu Jintao, as a military band played Hindi film melodies in t....
- Meira Kumar to address Bhutanese parliament on Friday
Thimphu, May 27: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, on a three-day visit to Bhutan, today said India's democratic experience needed to be shared with the Himalayan kingdom that adopted constitu....
- Film fest celebrating Indo-China relations begins
New Delhi, May 18: A six-day Chinese Film Festival marking the diamond jubilee celebrations of the bilateral relations between India and China began in the capital on Monday night.
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- Dhaka curbs movement of people at night near India border
Dhaka, May 17: Bangladesh has imposed restrictions on movement of people at night in areas along the 4,300-km border with India to avert what it calls deaths due to firing by the Indian border ....
- Indian wheat expensive, says Dhaka
Dhaka, May 16: Bangladesh will not buy Indian wheat as it finds its price higher than the international market, a senior official has said.
The Bangladesh government is reluctant to i....
- Supreme Court to hear plea on Prabhakaran's mother
New Delhi, May 13: A petition seeking a special Indian flight for bringing mother of Prabhakaran, the late supremo of the Tamil separatist guerrillas, from Sri Lanka to Chennai for medical trea....
- No hand in student leader's killing in Bangladesh: HNLC
Shillong, May 12: The outlawed Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) today claimed that it had no hand in the killing of a Khasi student activist, missing since 2007, in Bangladesh.
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- India not paranoid about China: Antony
New Delhi, May 12: Defence Minister A.K. Antony today categorically denied that the Indian government was "paranoid" about China as his ministerial colleague Jairam Ramesh had said in B....
- India planning additional aid to Sri Lanka
New Delhi, May 11: External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna today met former Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickramasinghe and conveyed to him India's intention to provide additional aid for....
- China’s intrusion in India increases by the day
New Delhi, May 11: China continues to penetrate into India through every fathomable window like the real and the virtual world. China has already launched a scale of attacks on the Internet and....
- Dhaka honours Tagore music exponents
Dhaka, May 7: Veteran Rabindra Sangeet exponents Kalim Sharafi and Sanjida Khatun have been named as the recipients of the annual Rabindra Awards instituted in the honour of Indian Nobel laurea....
- India to gift Buddhist temple to China
New Delhi, May 6: An Indian-style Buddhist temple, which was inspired by the Sanchi Stupa and took five years to build at a cost of $4 million, will be dedicated to the Chinese people by Presid....
- Dhaka seeks Delhi's help to nab Mujib killers
Dhaka, May 6: Bangladesh has sought New Delhi's help to nab two of the six fugitive killers of its founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who was assassinated 35 years ago.
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- Sheikh Hasina's aide holds talks to push key projects with India
New Delhi, May 5: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's top aide Mashiur Rahman today held wide-ranging talks with Indian officials that focused on implementing key decisions taken duri....
- Bangladesh to examine power import deal with India
Dhaka, May 4: The Bangladesh government formed a committee on Monday to review a deal signed earlier with India on open-ended import and export of electricity, before ratifying the deal for pow....
- Everest claims first victim of 2010
Kathmandu, May 3: With over 200 climbers hoping to summit Mt Everest this year, the world's highest peak has claimed its first victim this season with the disappearance of a Hungarian mount....
- Four Indians convicted in Bangladesh were militants: Police
Shillong, May 2: Four Indians convicted of arms smuggling and imprisoned for 17 years in Bangladesh last week are members of the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC), a militant outfi....
- Strike against price rise hits public transport in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram, April 27: Public transport, barring flight services, came to a grinding halt across Kerala today due to the dawn-to-dusk nationwide strike called by the Left parties to prot....
- Dhaka overturns decision to lift ban on Indian films
Dhaka, April 27: A 45-year-old ban on import of Indian films, which a Bangladesh ministry had decided to lift causing protests from the film fraternity, will now continue following a decision b....
- Manmohan cautions Karzai against moderate Taliban trap
New Delhi, April 26: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and conveyed India's concerns over a plan to hold talks with the so-called moderate Ta....
- Hasina plans to buy electricity from India
Dhaka, April 26: Purchasing 500 MW power from India and setting up ten new power plants to generate another 1,000 MW tops Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's agenda, a media report said today.
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- Dhaka looks globally for yarn after Indian export ban
Dhaka, April 25: Bangladesh’s spinners are trying to import cotton yarn and raw cotton from Africa, Austria, the US and Brazil after India recently imposed a ban on its export.
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- We have snapped Islamist-ultra Left nexus: Dhaka
Dhaka, April 25: The Bangladesh government has said it has snapped a developing nexus between the Islamists and ultra-Left militants that could have led to an exchange of arms.
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- Bangladesh's cooperation on terror crucial to India: US
Dhaka, April 23: The issue of counter terrorism and Bangladesh's cooperation on it were "crucial to India", US Deputy Secretary of State James B. Steinberg has said.
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- Hindus allege land-grab by Bangladeshi politicians
Dhaka, April 20: Minority Hindus of Mothbaria sub-district in Bangladesh's Pirojpur district have alleged that ruling Awami League activists backed by the party's lawmaker were trying t....
- Bangladesh parliament to debate deals with India
Dhaka, April 18: Bangladesh parliament will discuss three deals with India pertaining to exchange of prisoners, combating international terrorism, and mutual help in criminal justice, signed du....
- Indian youths jailed in Bangladesh now missing
Agartala, April 18: Two Indian youths from Tripura, arrested for illegally entering Bangladesh in November last year, have been missing for nearly four months now, officials said here today.
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- India, Bangladesh power venture to come up in Chalna
Dhaka, April 18: Chalna, a port town in southwestern Bangladesh, will be the location for a proposed 1,310 megawatt coal-fired power plant to be set up as a joint venture between Bangladesh and....
- Fight Indian pressure: Dhaka Jamaat leader
Dhaka, April 16: Calling India "big-brother," right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) chief Maulana Matiur Rahman Nizami Friday called for opposition unity to fight external "pressures"....
- Human chain in Bangladesh to demand dredging of Padma river
Dhaka, April 14: Villagers backed by several non-government organisations and environmentalists formed a human chain to demand early dredging of the silted Padma river, one of Bangladesh's ....
- Bangladesh prime minister to visit Tripura in September
Agartala: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Tripura in September to boost trade and economic relations between the northeast region and India's closest neighbour, Tripura C....
- Dhaka stakes claim over submerged island in Bengal bay
Dhaka: Bangladesh has re-asserted its claim over an island, that has submerged in the Bay of Bengal, to bolster its case in a maritime boundary dispute with India. Dhaka says South Talpatti, wh....
- Myanmar seeks military aid from India to flush out rebels
Shillong: Myanmar on Saturday sought military assistance from India to start operations against anti-India insurgent groups taking shelter in its territory, a top diplomat said.
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- Indian firm attacked in Afghanistan, no casualties
New Delhi: Taliban insurgents attacked an Indian road construction company in Afghanistan's Khost province today and torched some vehicles, but the raiders were beaten back, Afghan official....
- Two militants arrested from India-Bangladesh border
Shillong: Border Security Force (BSF) troopers on Friday held two Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC) militants along the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya, officials said.
- Bangladesh offers India connection to northeastern states
Shillong: Bangladesh today offered India a connection to its northeastern states as well as Thailand and Myanmar via Bangladeshi territory.
"We are ready to take on our destiny as....
- India and China sign hotline deal
Beijing: On Wednesday India inked a deal with a China that would enable a hotline to be set up and be used for the purposes of communication by the respective Prime Ministers of both the nation....
- Tripura wants improved connectivity with Bangladesh
Agartala/New Delhi: The Tripura government has asked the centre to improve air and surface connectivity between northeast India and Bangladesh to boost trade and people-to-people contacts, offi....
- Former Tamil chief minister returns to Sri Lanka - after nine years
New Delhi: The Tamil chief minister of Sri Lanka's northeastern province when Indian troops were deployed has returned to the country for the first time after nearly a decade - and a year a....
- Much scope for India-China joint projects: Krishna
Beijing: India and China have a "considerable scope" for setting up joint ventures in infrastructure and Information and Techonolgy sectors, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said ....
- Chinese hackers stole India's defence secrets: Report
New Delhi: Chinese hackers have stolen "secret", "restricted" and "confidential" information from India's defence ministry, its diplomatic missions abroad, the Natio....
- Documents from India's Defence Ministry stolen to China: Research
New Delhi: Recent reports from the Canadian and United States computer security researchers reveal a striking fact that the documents from India's Defence Ministry have been stolen by a tea....
- India 'instigating' Dhaka war crimes trials, says Jamaat
Dhaka: Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, has blamed "India's instigation" for the war crimes trial the government has initiated to bring to book those ....
- Bangladeshi woman gives birth in Indian hospital
Dhaka: A Bangladeshi woman, living in an enclave near the international border, has given birth to a child at a hospital in Cooch Behar on the Indian side -- but this has led to a piquant situa....
- India, China downplay differences, to keep ties on track
New Delhi: Taking a mature and long-range view of their relationship, leaders of India and China today pledged not to allow differences to derail the larger relationship as the two countries ma....
- International Hindi Day celebrated in Kazakhstan
Astana: The growing bilateral relations between India and Kazakhstan make it important for this Central Asian republic to prepare and create a cadre of Indologists who are well versed in Indian....
- Boundary issue not to affect growing India-China ties: NSA
New Delhi: National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon today said India and China have found a way to manage their differences over 'the most complicated and difficult' boundary dispute....
- Menon warns against media 'distortions' in India-China ties
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of media frenzy last year over a host of issues between India and China including the boundary, National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon today warned against ....
- India spells 'easy' terms for $1 bn loan to Bangladesh
Dhaka: Bangladesh says the terms set for the $1 billion loan offered by India during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's New Delhi visit in January are "as easy as those of the Asian Develop....
- China agrees to let in more Mansarovar pilgrims
New Delhi: China has agreed to accommodate more Indian pilgrims for the four-month-long Kailash Mansarovar 'yatra' (travel), External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said today.
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- Pakistan sports fraternity welcomes Sania-Shoaib betrothal
Karachi: Pakistan's sports fraternity today welcomed the news of former cricket captain Shoaib Malik tying the knot with Indian tennis star Sania Mirza next month, calling it great news.
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- China's gold thirst may catch up with India
Beijing: China's demand for gold will double in 10 years, making the country the world's second largest consumer of gold after India, the World Gold Council (WGC) has said.
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- Indian business delegation to visit Bangladesh
Kolkata: A high level Indian business delegation would visit Bangladesh early next month, Bangladesh's Industry Minister Dilip Barua said here on Friday.
"A 50-member team wil....
- Bangladeshis widening communal divide in Assam: experts
New Delhi: In the otherwise communally harmonious Assam, there is a growing divide between communities because Indian Muslims are often clubbed with the migrants from Bangladesh and are eyed wi....
- India, China to discuss agriculture, GM food
New Delhi: Moving beyond strategic issues, India and China will explore avenues of cooperation in agriculture and biotechnology when Chinese Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu holds talks with Indian off....
- India-Bangladesh water sharing agreement on Teesta soon
New Delhi: In a "significant movement forward" after a five-year hiatus, India and Bangladesh have agreed to expeditiously finalise an agreement on sharing waters of the Teesta river.
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- India has role to solve Tibet issue: Dalai Lama
New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has said India after building a "good" friendly relationship with China could play a role in solving the Tibet issue.
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- India may declare no-firing along Bangladesh border: Pillai
New Delhi: India could declare a unilateral "no-firing" along its border with Bangladesh for a year to avoid the deaths of civilians in any cross-fire, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said h....
- India, Bangladesh hold talks on river water
New Delhi: More than two months after Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came here on a landmark visit, India and Bangladesh today held talks to thrash out an interim treaty on Teesta wat....
- China says it wants good neigbourly ties with India
Beijing: China today reaffirmed its commitment to develop good-neighbourly relations with India, but added that "the border issue remains unsettled between the two countries".
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- Gen Kapoor meets Bangladesh army chief
New Delhi: Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor met his Bangladeshi counterpart General Mohammad Abdul Mubeen here today amid expanding strategic ties between the two countries.
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- Experts to Hasina: balance ties with Delhi, Beijing
Dhaka: Experts from various fields have advised Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who embarks on her Beijing visit on Wednesday, to "balance" ties with larger neighbours India an....
- May take 9 years to settle boundary row with India: Dhaka
Dhaka: Bangladesh's foreign affairs ministry has projected a nine-year period to settle maritime boundary dispute with India and Myanmar and has sought funds till 2017-18, a media report sa....
- India, Bangladesh security forces trade fire in Meghalaya
Shillong: The Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) today traded gunfire in Muktapur sector along the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya, officials here said.
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- Dhaka wants interim accord with Delhi on Teesta waters
Dhaka: Bangladesh is seeking an interim arrangement with India on sharing of Teesta river waters until the two neighbours can strike a long-term agreement. The next round of talks by the Joint ....
- Malaysian Indian businessmen seek 100,000 workers
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia's Indian business community says it needs a foreign workforce of 100,000 as it has exhausted avenues for hiring locals.
There is a dire need for 100,000 new....
- Identity crisis for Indian with Chinese name
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Indian hawker Philip Choong Kim Hoong has a Chinese name that is getting him nowhere as officials insist that information on his birth certificate is false.
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- Dhaka keen to attract more Indian, Chinese funds
Dhaka: Bangladesh has decided not to bargain with foreign lenders for lowering loan interest rates in a bid to attract funds from India, China, South Korea and others for funding development pr....
- Pakistan lacks support for culture: Sheema Kermani
New Delhi: Indians and Pakistanis are the same people and want to live in peace, says Pakistan-based theatre director Sheema Kermani. Also an activist, she believes cultural activities lack ins....
- Indians asked to be cautious in Afghanistan
New Delhi: It has been learnt, as per certain sources in the media, Indians working in Afghanistan would be officially warned that they might be the target of terror attacks in the near future.....
- India is friend, Pakistan twin brother: Afghan President
Islamaba: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday described India as a friend and Pakistan as twin brother of Afghanistan, which could not be stable without Islamabad's cooperation.
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- Bangladesh promises action against insurgents: BSF
New Delhi: The Border Security Force (BSF) today said that Bangladesh had promised action against insurgents operating from their territory against India.
"We have handed over a l....
- Hasina vows easy access to Bangladeshis in Indian enclaves
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has pledged 24-hour access for Bangladeshis living in the Dahagram and Angarpota enclaves located within Indian territory.
Although Bang....
- Resolve Tibet issue through dialogue, reiterates Dalai Lama
Dharamsala: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today reiterated his commitment to settle the Tibetan issue through dialogue and within the framework of Chinese law.
"Whether ....
- Mujib planned separation from Pakistan in 1969: Hasina
Dhaka: Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had made detailed plans for the liberation from Pakistan during a stay in London in 1969, his daughter and Prime Minister Sheikh Ha....
- India assures Sri Lanka support for Tamil resettlement
Colombo: India on Sunday assured Sri Lanka of its support in resettling nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians displaced by the civil war in the island-nation and pushed for a political settlement when....
- India, Bangladesh frontier forces begin talks today
Dhaka: Border guards of Bangladesh and India begin talks in New Delhi today hoping the "spirit of the two prime ministers" would percolate down to the men who guard the 4,300 km frontie....
- Dhaka prepares to sign free trade agreement with Delhi
Dhaka: Bangladesh is to resume talks after five years on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with India that it hopes will allow greater access to the Indian market. Commerce Ministry officials are to....
- No succumbing to Chinese pressure on Arunachal projects: India
New Delhi: The Indian government on Saturday denied making any commitment to anyone, including the World Bank, that it will not present projects in Arunachal Pradesh for funding by multilateral....
- No Indian embassy staffer in Kabul wants to return: Krishna
Bangalore: Amid reports about the increased security threat to Indians in Afghanistan after the Feb 26 terror strike, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna today said no Indian embassy staffer....
- Kandahar hijack planners came to India via Bangladesh: Jaish militant
Dhaka: A suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operative arrested in Dhaka has told Bangladeshi investigators that he arranged safe passage to India from Bangladesh for several Islamist militants wh....
- Menon meets Afghan President, discusses security of Indians
Kabul/New Delhi/Washington: India on Friday said that the Feb 26 terror attack in Kabul will not deter it from helping rebuild Afghanistan as National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon met Afg....
- Deals with India on right track, say Bangladesh experts
Dhaka: Bangladesh is "on the right track" in signing deals with India and it needs to evolve an effective follow-up mechanism, economists and analysts here said.
They asked th....
- Dalai Lama is 'political monk', says Chinese official
Beijing: A senior Chinese official today described the Dalai Lama as a "political monk" while criticising "certain foreign leaders" for meeting the Tibetan spiritual leader.
- Dhaka keen on South Asian regional connectivity
Dhaka: Officials from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Bhutan may meet soon to chalk out plans for closer regional connectivity following an understanding reached between Dhaka and New Delhi.
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- India to contact Bangladesh over IC-814 hijack plotter
New Delhi: India today said it will get in touch with Bangladesh after confirming the identity of an arrested militant, who has reportedly confessed to having plotted the 1999 hijacking of the ....
- Border troubles remain as India, Bangladesh reach out
Shillong/Agartala: All is not quiet on the India-Bangladesh border even as the two countries strive to improve relations. While border guards from the neighbouring country have reportedly been ....
- Persuade Pakistan to stop terrorism, PM urges Saudi
On Board Air India One: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that he had asked Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz to use his good offices to persuade Pakistan to stop abetting ....
- Manmohan arrives after historic Saudi visit
New Delhi: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived here today evening after a historic three-day visit to Saudi Arabia.
The prime minister was accompanied by Health Minister Ghul....
- UN tribunal to arbiter Delhi-Dhaka maritime border depute
Dhaka: The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has nominated three judges to constitute an arbitration tribunal on the Bangladesh-India maritime boundary dispute.
The judges....
- Fresh firing along India-Bangladesh border
Shillong: The Border Security Force (BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) today again traded gunfire in Muktapur along their border in Meghalaya but a BDF official called it "accidental" fi....
- Saudi Arabia lauds contributions of Indian expats
Riyadh: The Saudi Arabian leadership today lauded the contributions of 1.8-million strong expatriate Indian population to the development of their nation during the course of their engagements ....
- Pakistani boy who slipped into India in sleep to go home
Amritsar (Punjab): A 13-year-old Pakistani boy, who was caught by the police at Attari railway station here on Jan 11 for illegally entering India, was ordered to be released by the Juvenile Ju....
- Afghan foreign minister speaks to Krishna after blast
New Delhi/Kabul: In the wake of the terror attack in Kabul that killed 17 people, including nine Indians, Afghanistan on Friday told India it would take more security measures for the safety of....
- Indians who died in Kabul were on goodwill mission: PM
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today strongly condemned the blasts in Kabul and stressed that the nine Indians, who died in "this senseless act of violence and barbarism", wer....
- More Indian railway links with Nepal, Bangladesh
New Delhi: India would extend railway networks with its neighbours Nepal and Bangladesh, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said here today.
Presenting the railway budget for the year 2....
- Indian moots container movement with Bangladesh
Dhaka: An Indian firm has proposed that Bangladesh permit direct container movement by barge and railway on a trial basis between the two countries to reduce cost and time.
Two senior....
- Dhaka, Delhi agree to install cross-border power cable
Dhaka: Bangladesh and India have agreed to lay a cross-border power cable to light up Dahagram and Angarpota, the Bangladeshi enclaves in Indian territory.
The agreement was reached a....
- China has an enduring strategic relationship with Pakistan: Nirupama Rao
London: While India and China consult each other regularly at multilateral fora, there was still a sense of competition between the two Asian giants, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said, adding....
- After beheading, Pakistani Sikhs want to flee to India
Islamabad/Chandigarh: Hundreds of fear-stricken Sikhs clamoured to escape to India after the Pakistani Taliban beheaded one of three Sikh men they abducted over a month ago. The killing was con....
- Dhaka seeks easier browsing in Bengali on the Internet
Dhaka: Bangladesh has filed an application with the global internet body to facilitate easier browsing on the net in Bengali.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina filed the formal application....
- Beheaded body of a Sikh found in Pakistan
Islamabad: The beheaded body of a Sikh abducted by Pakistani Taliban was found in Pakistan's restive tribal region, a media report said today.
The victim was one of the three Sikh....
- US, China 'just agree to disagree' on Dalai Lama
Washington: The US has brushed aside Chinese protests over President Barack Obama's and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's meetings with the Dalai Lama saying "we just agree to di....
- India agrees to set up 1,320 MW power plant in Bangladesh
Dhaka: In a joint venture with India, a power plant will be set up in Bangladesh in three years to produce 1,320 MW.
Two coal-fired units with production capacity of 660 MW each will ....
- Meghalaya villagers flee as Bangladesh guards open fire
Shillong: Several schools along the India-Bangladesh border have been closed and around 500 people fled their villages in Meghalaya due to "intermittent and unprovoked firing" by Bangla....
- Beefing army presence in northeast not aimed at China: Antony
New Delhi: Pointing out that India was not a "war-mongering" nation, Defence Minister A.K. Antony today said that strengthening the Indian Army's presence in the northeast was not a....
- Nepal president arrives in Delhi for four-day visit
New Delhi: Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav arrived here today for a four-day state visit during which he will sign several agreements as well as visit Haridwar for the Maha Kumbh Mela.
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- Dhaka, New Delhi to cooperate on curbing infectious diseases
Dhaka: Bangladesh and India have agreed to fight infectious diseases like polio and cooperate in healthcare programmes for the poor.
A decision in this regard was taken during a meeti....
- All eyes on Nepal president's maiden India visit
Kathmandu: With major changes sweeping through Nepal, all eyes here are on the maiden visit by Nepal's first President Ram Baran Yadav to India from today, an event that will further cement....
- Politicians sheltering mafia in Nepal: ex-police official
Kathmandu: Nine days after the daylight murder of controversial Nepali media tycoon Jamim Shah, a former police official said the "mafia" had entered the country and was operating with ....
- 'Indian $1 bn credit costly'
Dhaka: The one billion-dollar credit line India pledged to Bangladesh last month will be "costlier" than what Bangladesh gets from elsewhere,media today claimed. It also said the "s....
- Maha Kumbh Mela, Maoist attack wean away Pashupatinath pilgrims
Kathmandu: Though tens of thousands of devotees lined up at the gates of the revered Pashupatinath temple of Nepal Friday to offer worship on the occasion of Mahashivratri, there was a noticeab....
- India's rise beneficial for Bangladesh, says US envoy
Dhaka: Bangladesh should not have any fears over India's rise as a superpower as Delhi's emergence would fetch benefits for Dhaka, US ambassador to Bangladesh James F. Moriarty has said....
- India not ready for dialogue on Kashmir: Pakistan
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says that India is not ready for a dialogue on Kashmir and Pakistan is waiting for its "final response" that resumption of talks should only....
- Chinese complain about visas to India
New Delhi: A number of Chinese nationals visiting or working in India have complained that they have trouble getting visas to this country. But Indians travelling to China have no such problem,....
- India to expand rail network along Bangladesh border
Agartala: India will extend its railway network to two more places along the India-Bangladesh border by 2014 to improve connectivity between the two countries, it was announced today.
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- 'Indus water shortage has affected both India, Pakistan'
Lahore: Shortage of water in the Indus due to lower rainfall has affected both India and Pakistan, an Indian official said today.
"Pakistan and India are facing water scarcity due....
- Former Sri Lankan Army chief arrested, to be court-martialled
Colombo: Former Sri Lankan Army chief Sarath Fonseka was arrested today and will be court-martialled for military crimes, an official said.
Lakshman Hullugala, director general of the....
- Should have been consulted before Hasina's India visit: Zia
Dhaka: Bangladesh's opposition leader Khaleda Zia today criticised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for not consulting her before visiting India in December and termed as a "sell-out" t....
- Delhi gangster admits hand in Nepal media tycoon's killing
Kathmandu: A former scalper from New Delhi's Tilak Nagar who became Indian underworld don Chhota Rajan's aide, has admitted responsibility for the audacious killing of Nepal's contr....
- Pakistan diplomats go house hunting, say will miss Shanti Club
New Delhi: The cottages in a quiet corner of south Delhi that had been their home for many years are set to be bulldozed. And top Pakistani diplomats getting ready move out of the Shanti Sports....
- India faces twin Maoist problem in Nepal
Kathmandu: Already grappling with severe Maoist violence in several of its own states, India now faces a twin Maoist threat in neighbouring Nepal with a splinter group declaring war on New Delh....
- Dhaka launches drive against piracy in Sundarbans
Dhaka: Bangladesh has launched a special drive to check piracy in the Sundarbans and the coastal belt in the Bay of Bengal along India's West Bengal state.
"Foreign fishermen ....
- Deport illegal Bangladeshi migrants: RSS chief
Panaji: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday asked the central government to implement the Supreme court guidelines and deport lakhs of Bangladeshi migrants illega....
- India to protect fishermen from Lankan naval attacks
Chennai: India will take necessary steps to protect fishermen from the attacks of Sri Lankan Navy and will ask the island government to look at a political resolution of the problems of Tamils ....
- 'India won't hinder Afghan-led Taliban reintegration'
New Delhi: India is not rigid in its stance against the Taliban and will not stand in the way of any move by Afghanistan in its reintegration efforts with the Islamist fighters.
This ....
- India hopes Rajapaksa win will give stability to Sri Lanka
New Delhi: Quietly happy over Sri Lanka's electoral outcome, India hopes that the victory of President Mahinda Rajapaksa will lead to political stability in a country still seemingly ethnic....
- India hopes Rajapaksa will fulfill Tamil promise
New Delhi: With Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa heading for a landslide win in the first election after the LTTE rout, India is hoping he will use the electoral boost to fast-track the l....
- No proof of China encroaching India's land: Air Chief
Bangalore: Chief of Air Staff P.V. Naik on Friday said reports about China encroaching into India were not true and there was no change on the Sino-Indian border. "Nothing has changed on th....
- Hasina's India visit was game-changing: Bangladesh envoy
New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's India tour was a "game-changing visit", which will turn the two South Asian countries into development partners from adversarial....
- Dhaka-Delhi ties, talks will stabilise South Asia: US
Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India and the parleys she held there will "help maintain stability" in South Asia, a senior visiting US official has said.
P....
- India concerned over growing trade imbalance with China
New Delhi: India's imports from China have been growing at over 35 percent during the past few years, says fresh data from the commerce ministry today, underscoring the concern over balance....
- More than 70% of Afghans feel India is playing most important role in the country
New Delhi: This is no fiction. A recent poll conducted by Afghan Centre for Socio Economic and Opinion Research has revealed that India is chosen as the country playing the most positive role f....
- Gates pitches for military pacts with India
New Delhi: Visiting US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today hard-sold two military pacts that will bind New Delhi and Washington to providing logistics support to each other's aircraft, ....
- China's military build-up figures in India-US talks
New Delhi: China's military build-up figured today in the talks between Defence Minister A.K. Antony and visiting US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who said its implications were among ....
- Hasina signed secret security deal with India: Bangladesh party
Dhaka: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamist party, has alleged that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina signed "a secret security deal" during her visit to India.
- China and India partners not opponents: Chinese PM
Beijing: China and India were not opponents but partners, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said here today at a meeting with visiting Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma. "Only if ....
- Jyoti Basu lives in our heart: Sheikh Hasina
Kolkata: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid her last respects to Communist veteran Jyoti Basu, expressing her gratitude for the helping hand he extended during the 1971 Banglade....
- Google Maps shows 3 versions on Arunachal, says it is a standard practice
New Delhi: Google Maps is once again under scanner and this time it is also regarding the wrong depiction of India's north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. The map application of this se....
- Chinese journalists meet Krishna, talk of better understanding
New Delhi: With the media blamed by some for stoking India-China tensions, a group of Chinese journalists today called on External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna to explore ways to build better ....
- Sheikh Hasina, Sonia Gandhi to attend Basu's last journey
New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi will be among a host of dignitaries scheduled to arrive here Tuesday to pay the....
- Anand Sharma on mission to push India-China trade ties
New Delhi: Easing of procedural hurdles for work visas and paving the way for a comprehensive bilateral trade pact will be the focus of Commerce Minister Anand Sharma's official parleys on ....
- Holbrooke meets Krishna, discusses AfPak situation
New Delhi: US special envoy Richard Holbrooke today met External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and discussed ways of stabilising Afghanistan ahead of the London conference later this month. Dur....
- Hasina's India pacts a total sell-out: Khaleda Zia
Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia today termed the agreements signed with India during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's New Delhi visit as "a total sell-out".
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- Dhaka for talks with India on Teesta next month
Dhaka: Bangladesh is initiating a process to expedite talks with India over striking a deal on sharing of Teesta waters, a top minister has said.
Keen to follow up summit level talks ....
- China, India top over-performers in improving trade logistics
Washington: China and India are the top two over-performers among developing economies in improving their capacity to efficiently move goods and connect manufacturers and consumers with interna....
- Dhaka opposition seeks unity to protest India pacts
Dhaka: Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has "rejected" the pacts the government signed with India earlier this week and is striving for a united protest movement to th....
- Government plans environmental study of Sethusamudram channel
Panaji: The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) will carry out an environment impact assessment of the Sethusamudram channel, which aims to dredge a navigable link through the Palk Strait ....
- China confirms detaining Indians
Beijing: China confirmed today that a group of Indian nationals has been detained on smuggling charges.
"Chinese police detained some Indians suspected of smuggling," foreign ....
- Dhaka opposition to protest pacts with India
Dhaka: Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has said it will return to parliament, which it has been boycotting for the past seven months, to protest the government's performa....
- Bangladeshi media hails Hasina's Delhi visit
Dhaka: Leaders of Bangladesh and India displayed "maturity" and viewed the big picture during the New Delhi visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that marks "an end to mutual mistru....
- China needs to be transparent, says Dalai Lama
Bhubaneswar: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today said China should be more transparent for a better relationship with India.
"China is not transparent unlike India. Chin....
- Detained Indians in China are fine, getting veg food
New Delhi: Indian diplomats today got consular access to 21 Indians detained by Chinese authorities in Shenzhen for allegedly smuggling diamonds. They are being looked after well and have been ....
- India, Bangladesh in talks over extradition treaty: Sheikh Hasina
New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said India and Bangladesh are carrying on discussions to firm up an extradition treaty, taking their counter-terror cooperation further ....
- Bangladesh PM prays at Ajmer shrine
Jaipur: Amid tight security, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today offered prayers at Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti's shrine in Ajmer.
"She along with 17 members of her dele....
- Hasina's India visit a total failure: Bangladesh opposition
Dhaka: Bangladesh's main opposition has termed as "total failure" the outcome of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's current India visit during which pacts were signed, saying "t....
- Bangladesh backs India for UN seat, to fast-track boundary solution
New Delhi: Turning a new chapter in their ties, India and Bangladesh have decided to fast-track the solution to their boundary dispute and fight terrorism under a new framework of security coop....
- Anti-piracy operations: India, China discuss information sharing
New Delhi: With their energy interests coinciding in the piracy-infested Gulf of Aden, India and China are now deliberating joining hands to combat pirates on the high seas.
Both the ....
- India-China to hold joint army activities in 2011
New Delhi: The Indian and Chinese armies will conduct their next round of joint military practices in 2011, three years after they initiated the process, an official said today.
The d....
- India, Bangladesh to sign security, power pacts
New Delhi: India today rolled out the red carpet for visiting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as she began the official leg of her four-day visit during which the two neighbours will si....
- Sheikh Hasina arrives on Sunday, India calls visit historic
New Delhi: As Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived here on Sunday on her maiden visit, India said her trip offered a "historic opportunity" to build "a new and forward-lo....
- New Delhi resolves to strengthen ties with Dhaka
New Delhi: Expressing its resolve to strengthen its "traditional and historical close links" with Dhaka, New Delhi today hoped that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit w....
- Zia cautions Hasina ahead of crucial India visit
Dhaka: Bangladesh's opposition leader Khaleda Zia today extended cooperation to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the even of her crucial visit to India but cautioned her principal political ....
- India, Bangladesh to discuss maritime dispute
New Delhi: Resolution of the maritime boundary dispute will be an important item on their summit agenda when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Has....
- Dhaka hopeful of progress on Teesta talks with India
Dhaka: Though a deal on sharing the Teesta river water was not expected to be signed by Bangladesh and India during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's New Delhi visit next week, Dhaka was still....
- India softpedals China factor in Nepal
New Delhi: Downplaying reports of Beijing's growing influence in Kathmandu, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna today said Nepal should take into account India's security concerns wh....
- India to host conference on peace with Pakistan
New Delhi: Amid the deep chill in India-Pakistan ties, peace activists from the two countries will pitch for a thaw and also discuss autonomy to Kashmir and Balochistan in a three-day conferenc....
- Securitymen on their toes for Bangladesh premier's visit
New Delhi: Indian intelligence and security agencies are working in close coordination with their counterparts in Dhaka to safeguard Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during her three-day....
- India to dredge river in Bangladesh
Dhaka: Beginning next month, India will dredge Ichhamati river in Bangladesh and the south Asian neighbours will for the first time cooperate to protect the banks of the rivers they share.
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- Sri Lankan Navy offers sweets to Indian fishermen on New Year
Rameswaram: Since a long time onwards the fishermen of Tamil Nadu have been complaining about the repeated assaults by the Sri Lankan Navy. However, to revive its image, the Lankan Naval offici....
- Dhaka, Delhi hold talks over sharing Teesta water
Dhaka: Bangladesh and India today began talks here to thrash out a pact on the sharing of Teesta river waters with Dhaka saying that even an interim agreement would suffice. The deliberations t....
- Zia must not prejudge talks with India: Dhaka media
Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia "must not prejudge" the outcome of the summit level talks Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will have in New Delhi next week, a Dhaka media sa....
- Hasina, Zia exchange barbs on ties with India
Dhaka: Ahead of her summit-level talks in India, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today ridiculed opposition leader Khaleda Zia's threats of making her government's path "tho....
- Zia warns government against deal with India
Dhaka: Ahead of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India, opposition leader Khaleda Zia today warned of "a tough movement" against "any deal with India against t....
- Bangladesh 'almost free of global recession'
Dhaka: Bangladesh says it is "almost out of the impact of the global economic recession" with every economic index looking positive.
"In the outgoing year, our exports, im....
- Bangladesh seeks greater trade ties to bridge deficit with India
Dhaka: Bangladesh has pitched for greater purchase of its goods by India to bridge the wide gap in bilateral trade ahead of the summit level talks this month in New Delhi.
President Z....
- Can't shut eyes to international terror: Sheikh Hasina
Dhaka: It isn't possible to work "keeping the eyes shut" towards threats to other countries as everybody faces the threat of international terrorism, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheik....
- India hopeful about relations with China in spite of concerns
New Delhi: India agreed to the fact that there are certain worrying issues pertaining to its bilateral ties with its neighbours China. However, it also revealed that it was hopeful of reaching ....
- India-Bhutan ink 12 agreements, four in hydropower
New Delhi: India and Bhutan today inked a dozen agreements, including four on hydropower generation, after Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck held extensive talks with Prime Minister....
- Bhutan King arrives in India on state visit
New Delhi: India and Bhutan will sign agreements on hydroelectric power and civil aviation during the Bhutanese King's five-day state visit to India, where an exhibition of photographs he h....
- India to improve road links with Bangladesh, Myanmar
Agartala: India will invest Rs.1,666 crore (Rs.16.66 billion) to develop highways in Tripura and Mizoram to improve connectivity of the landlocked northeastern states with Bangladesh and Myanma....
- No Mujib killer in Indian jail: Envoy
Dhaka: None of those convicted for murdering Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is in Indian jails, India's outgoing envoy has said.
Ahead of summit level talk....
- Manpower shortage crippling Border Roads Organisation
New Delhi: As the defence ministry plans revamping of road infrastructure along the India-China border, shortage of manpower in the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is proving to be a major hind....
- Bangladesh-India summit talks likely on Jan 11
Dhaka: The prime ministers of Bangladesh and India are expected to meet in New Delhi on Jan 11 to sign five agreements and discuss a wide range of bilateral and regional issues, officials here ....
- Islamabad is 'five-star jail', says Baloch leader
New Delhi: Baloch leader Mir Hassan Bizenjo today described Islamabad as a "five-star jail", saying the Pakistani capital did not differ from Kabul from the security point of view.
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- Preserve graves of our liberation heroes, Dhaka tells Delhi
Dhaka: Bangladesh has asked India to preserve the graves of those who died fighting Pakistani forces during its 1971 freedom struggle.
Several graves, some of them part of mass burial....
- Jayalalithaa blasts government over Katchatheevu island
Chennai: Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa today criticised External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna over Katchatheevu, a small island ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974 and a source of re....
- India, Bangladesh maritime dispute impacts oil prospecting
New Delhi: Their relations are improving, but India and Bangladesh are yet to agree on the composition of a tribunal to resolve their old maritime dispute that is impacting offshore oil explora....
- Sheikh Hasina does not wish to go the Pakistan way
Dhaka: The crackdown on the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), northeastern India's separatist militants, and its associate groups has partly grown out of Bangladesh Prime Minister She....
- Two Coast Guard men rescued from Sri Lankan fishermen
Chennai: The Indian Navy today afternoon rescued two Indian Coast Guard personnel held captive by two Sri Lankan fishermen in their boat since on Wednesday.
"The Lankan fishing ve....
- Tamils will be resettled by January-end, Sri Lanka assures India
New Delhi: Sri Lanka today assured India that it will resettle around 300,000 internally displaced Tamil civilians before the end of January 2010 and reiterated its commitment to a political pr....
- Weather, clearances delay 61 roads along China border
New Delhi: The construction of 61 roads along the India-China border have been delayed due to environment clearances not coming in time and inclement weather, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said ....
- BJP rakes up China threat, asks if India is safe
New Delhi: Raising the spectre of an "aggressive" China, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today asked the government to forge relations with influential international players who could ....
- Book on Tibet in 21st century released
New Delhi: Tourism Minister Kumari Selja today released a book on Tibet that encompasses the demography, lifestyle and economy of the region in the 21st century.
Authored by Parvez De....
- Sheikh Hasina's visit to India postponed to mid-January
New Delhi: With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deciding to go to Copenhagen for the UN climate conference, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India has been postponed to the ....
- India and China to strengthen cultural relations
New Delhi: In an effort to better relations on a basic level India and China would be highlighting their respective cultures through a series of festivals to be held in the other country. These....
- India to help Lanka resettle 3 lakh people
New Delhi: With lakhs of Tamils displaced from their homes and living at the mercy of the refugee camps, India has today assured Sri Lankan government to help in the resettlement of 3,00,000 pe....
- Dhaka, Delhi strive for more accords during Hasina visit
Dhaka: Bangladeshi and Indian experts began deliberations today to sort out details of a bilateral pact on sharing of Teesta river waters, ahead of summit level talks scheduled in New Delhi on ....
- India keen on revival of political process in Sri Lanka
New Delhi: India today said it was keen to see the revival of the political process in Sri Lanka to meet the legitimate interests and aspirations of all communities.
"Government i....
- Strike at Indian border town hits trade with Bangladesh
Dhaka: Trade between Bangladesh and India was hit today at Benapole, a border town and the principal land port in India's West Bengal state, due to a transport strike enforced by the state&....
- Bangladesh acting against northeastern terrorists: Tripura chief minister
Agartala: Bangladesh has been taking action against terrorists from India's northeast, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here today, a day after top ULFA leader Arabinda Rajkhowa was....
- India 'pleased' with Obama's AfPak focus on Taliban, Al Qaeda
New Delhi: A day after US President Barack Obama announced a troop surge in Afghanistan, India today said it was "pleased" that military pressure on the Al Qaeda and Taliban will not be....
- Two Bangladesh ex-ministers armed militants against India
Dhaka: Two ministers of former prime minister Khaleda Zia's government aided a banned Islamist militant outfit to procure arms for use against India and Afghanistan, a police official told ....
- We are not bothered about China's claims: Arunachal CM
Ladakh: There have been several instances in the recent past where China has come in the way of India's developmental work in the border areas with the latest one being the forceful stoppag....
- BSF played key role in formation of Bangladesh, says new book
New Delhi: "Do what you like, but don't get caught." This was then prime minister Indira Gandhi's laconic fiat authorizing the Border Security Force (BSF) to take on Pakistani t....
- India behind Dalai Lama trip to Arunachal: Chinese scholar
New Delhi: India uses the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to strengthen its claim on Arunachal Pradesh, a sprawling region that Beijing claims, a Chinese scholar has said.
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- India, Bangladesh finalising pacts before Hasina visit
New Delhi: Ahead of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's India visit this month, home secretaries of the two countries are meeting to finalise three bilateral pacts expected to be sign....
- China developing airstrips, India says no reason to worry
New Delhi: There have been reports suggesting China's forceful construction more than 24 new airstrips along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), but Indian government maintains that there wa....
- India-Bangladesh home secretary level talks begin today
New Delhi: India and Bangladesh begin home secretary-level talks in New Delhi on Monday with tackling terrorism, infiltration and border crimes, as well as smuggling of fake currency and human ....
- Climate change threatens to push more Bangladeshis into India
Dhaka: Many people from coastal areas of Bangladesh forced out of their homes by the effects of climate change have started migrating towards already over-populated and infrastructure-crippled ....
- India concerned at China-Pakistan military links
New Delhi: Expressing concern at the growing "military nexus" between China and Pakistan, India today hoped that Beijing would reciprocate Indian overtures to resolve outstanding issues....
- Will Manmohan Singh influence Obama's Afghan strategy?
Washington: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assertive counsel to stay the course in Afghanistan or risk "catastrophic consequences" under an emboldened Taliban could play a d....
- China have been forceful: PM
Washington: The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said that in recent times China had been a bit of assertive in its recent dealings with India. He also reiterated that they had no optio....
- Tibetan orphans hope to visit Tibet one day
Bangalore: Achoe does not remember much of his childhood in Tibet. The 18-year-old, now in an orphanage in Karnakata, left his motherland when he was around four. But all these years, all he ha....
- China's non-democratic path is not for India: Manmohan
Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to downplay the recent US-China joint statement saying it's not of "direct concern" to him, but asserted that India will not choose ....
- India warns world against premature exit in Afghanistan
Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India and the US can do much more to expand security cooperation and warned the US and international community against any premature exit in....
- China wants special visa policy for its workers in India
Kolkata: China has asked for a "special policy" for its labourers to help businesses of the two sides finish ongoing projects in India, a top Chinese official said here today.
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- Af-Pak developments destabilising South Asia: Antony
New Delhi: Developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan have thrust South Asia into sub-conventional conflict and are destabilising the region, Defence minister A.K. Antony said today.
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- India and China are not in competition: Manmohan Singh
Washington: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reiterated that India and China are not in competition as there is enough economic space for the two Asian giants to realise the growth ambitions o....
- Frustration creeps in, yet faith in Dalai Lama keeps Tibetans going
New Delhi: The red-blue-yellow coloured Tibetan flags flutter everywhere in Majnu Ka Tila, a Tibetan settlement in the northern part of the capital. Five decades after the Tibetans fled to Indi....
- India, China interests intersect over a wide arc: Ansari
New Delhi: Active partnership between New Delhi and Beijing and mutual sensitivity to each others' concerns is necessary for stability, security and prosperity in the shared spaces in their....
- India very important country in Asia: Dalai Lama
New Delhi: The Dalai Lama on Friday said here that India should be seen as one of the most important Asian countries. He also stressed that while he no longer considered himself the temporal le....
- Catastrophe in the world if Taliban triumphs: PM
New Delhi: Emphasising the threat of civil war in Afghanistan if the US withdrew its forces, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned of "catastrophic consequences for the world, particular....
- India-Bangladesh couple seeks intervention to stay united
New Delhi: It's nothing short of a Bollywood love story. India's Zubair Khan and Bangladesh's Shazia Zarin met on Facebook, fell in love, she fled from home, they got married and ar....
- China overtaking India in English usage: study
London: India is falling behind China in its attempts to increase the use of English, risking squandering a key economic advantage, a new report says.
A "huge shortage" of tea....
- Cross border terrorism hampering Afghanistan, Pakistan: Clinton
Washington: Noting that a "cross border fertilisation of terrorism" is preventing both Pakistan and Afghanistan to defeat the forces threatening them, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton....
- Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers meet in Kabul
New Delhi: Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers met in Kabul today on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
According to sources, External Aff....
- Dalai Lama to speak at Delhi University
New Delhi: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will give the valedictory address at a conference on Tibetan history and culture at Delhi University on Saturday in which more than 40 scholar....
- Tibetans to thank India, raise freedom song
Bangalore: Buddhism, Tibetan medicine, 'chaam' dance, monastic chanting. It will be a peek into the Tibetan way of life at a festival here to thank India for providing a home to refugee....
- Indian project to track foreigners begins with Bangladesh
New Delhi: India's long-term project to track the movement of foreign nationals applying for its visas will kick off with Bangladeshi citizens.
As part of the e-governance plan, t....
- Dhaka, Delhi agree on rail transit
Dhaka: South Asia is set for greater connectivity with India today agreeing to allow Bangladesh rail transit to landlocked Nepal.
The announcement came after day-long foreign secretar....
- Bangladeshi-Indian foreign secretaries meet ahead of Hasina's visit
Dhaka: The foreign secretaries of Bangladesh and India met here today to prepare for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's three-day visit to New Delhi next month.
Indian Foreign Secreta....
- Sheikh Hasina to visit India in December
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be in New Delhi on Dec 19 for bilateral talks that may include India receiving transit facilities to reach its northeastern region.
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- India, Russia to cooperate closely over Taliban terror
New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Moscow next month, India and Russia today decided to firm up their cooperation in tackling the common threat of Taliban terroris....
- Can't see India China going to war: Pranab
London: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said he does not visualise the border dispute between India and China flaring up into a conflict.
If anything, trade between the two coun....
- Dalai Lama visit: No permission yet to foreign journalists
New Delhi: The government has yet to grant permission to foreign journalists to cover the Dalai Lama's week-long visit to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh that begins on Sunday, saying the appli....
- Bangladesh seeks link to Bhutan via India
Thimphu: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought a road to Bhutan through India for better trade and people-to-people contact. She told her hosts at this Bhutanese capital that India....
- Indian flags, pro-Tibet banners a rebuff to China
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh): The writing on the wall is loud and clear: the Dalai Lama's week-long visit to Arunachal Pradesh beginning on Sunday is a rebuff to Chinese claims over this fron....
- Indian, Tibetan flags flutter ahead of Dalai Lama visit
Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh): Dozens of Indian flags fluttered alongside Tibetan prayer flags today as Buddhist monks braved the winter chill to put up welcome arches and Mandala paintings on the....
- India denies foreign press barred from Dalai Lama's visit
New Delhi: The government today denied that it has restricted foreign journalists from covering the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh later this week.
To travel to Arunachal....
- We won't damage other nations' interests: China on dam issue
Beijing: With the reports of building a dam on Brahmaputra River in Tibet constantly hitting the headline, China gave assurance to India that it will not commit any action that will damage othe....
- We won't damage other nations' interests: China on dam issue
Beijing: With the reports of building a dam on Brahmaputra River in Tibet constantly hitting the headline, China gave assurance to India that it will not commit any action that will damage othe....
- India denies strain in China ties over Dalai Lama trip
New Delhi: Denying any strain in bilateral ties due to the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, India today said Sino-Indian ties were set to acquire "more substance and relevance&#....
- China denies building dam on Brahmaputra, says India
New Delhi: India today said it had taken up the contentious issue of the construction of a dam on the Brahamaputra river with the Chinese side many times, but Beijing had consistently denied ....
- Dalai Lama trying to wreck Indo-China ties: China
Beijing/New Delhi: In a subtle shift of stance, China on Tuesday accused Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama of trying to "wreck" Sino-Indian ties by his proposed visit to Arunachal....
- Dalai Lama trying to wreck Indo-China ties: China
Beijing/New Delhi: In a subtle shift of stance, China today accused Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama of trying to "wreck" Sino-Indian ties by his proposed visit to Arunachal Prad....
- China voices concern over India's visa policy
Beijing: China's commerce ministry has voiced concern over New Delhi's reported insistence that only those with employment visa can work in India, a move a newspaper said had hurt Chine....
- India denies strain in China ties over Dalai Lama trip
New Delhi: Denying any strain in bilateral ties due to the Dalai Lama's visit to Arunachal Pradesh, India today said Sino-Indian ties were set to acquire "more substance and relevance....
- Indian pilgrim killed in Nepal religious fair stampede
Kathmandu: An Indian pilgrim was among the two people killed while nearly two dozen were injured in a stampede in southern Nepal today during a Hindu religious festival.
Laxman Shah f....
- Sri Lankan president prays at Tirupathi
Hyderabad: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today offered prayers at the famous Lord Venkateshwara temple at Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh.
Rajapaksa arrived in a special aircra....
- Rajapaksa to visit Tirupathi on Saturday
Chennai: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his wife and a group of officials will make a flying visit to Tirupathi for a darshan of Lord Balaji at Tirumala on Saturday.
Rajapa....
- World large enough for ambitions of India and China: PM
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there was enough space in the world to accommodate the growth and ambitions of India and China, and assured that his government was taking ....
- India may allow passage for Nepal trucks to Bangladesh
Dhaka: India is considering granting passage to trucks from Nepal going to Bangladesh, media reports said.
The possibility of a trilateral arrangement was considered when commerce m....
- Nobel peace laureates call for resolution of Tibet issue
Dharamsala: Expressing concern over some of the global leaders' vested interest in economic profits rather than human rights and democracy as in the case of Tibet, prominent Nobel peace lau....
- Vice president in Sikkim to lay foundation for rail link
Gangtok: Vice President Hamid Ansari arrived here today on a hectic three-day visit to Sikkim during which he will lay the foundation stone of a rail link between Rangpo in the Himalayan state ....
- Navin Chawla visiting Bhutan to meet poll officials
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla visits Bhutan on Monday on the invitation of the Himalayan kingdom's poll panel chief to discuss election management in the new democracy....
- India, China to resolve border issue through talks: Meira Kumar
New Delhi: Ahead of the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao in Thailand, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar today said India is committed to resolving the bo....
- Two mountaineers feared killed in Sikkim avalanche
Mumbai: Two mountaineers from Maharashtra, who were on a climbing expedition to the Himalayas in Sikkim, were feared killed when an avalanche hit them on Monday, a member of the team said today....
- PM urges to be vigilant against China
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday reiterated on the need for strict vigilance against China. While addressing the top military officers at the combined commanders' confere....
- No Chinese dam over Brahmaputra - PM assures Arunachal
Guwahati: China has formally clarified to India that it is not building a dam over the Brahmaputra river on its side, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu said today.
Prime ....
- Two Indians aboard hijacked ship: officials
Mumbai: There are two Indians in a 21-member multinational crew aboard the ship, MV Kota Wajar, hijacked by Somali pirates last Thursday, officials said here today.
According to the d....
- Northeast frets, but India can do little on China's Brahmaputra dam
New Delhi: While concerned officials of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have asked for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention, India may not be able to make much noise over China's ....
- Nirupama Rao rejects China's Claim for Arunachal
New Delhi: The Foreign Secretary of India, Nirupama Rao has ultimately rejected China's claim for Arunachal Pradesh testifying that the state is an important part of India.
Earli....
- Chinese ambassador meets BJP chief, wants friendly ties with India
New Delhi: Chinese ambassador to India Zhang Yan met BJP President Rajnath Singh today to discuss the current situation between the two countries.
During the meeting, Yan put across ....
- India to ask China about Brahmaputra dam report
New Delhi: India said today it will be determining if China is building a large-scale dam project on the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra river in its territory.
In response to a medi....
- Arunachal's residents will fight China with their vote
Itanagar: China's protest against PM's Arunachal Pradesh visit has received a strong reaction from the people of the state. Tuesday was the voting day for Arunachal and an impressive 72....
- China's protest against PM's Arunachal visit not new: Pranab
New Delhi: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today saw "nothing new" in China's objection to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Arunachal Pradesh.
"It is not....
- Ask Colombo to free refugees, Amnesty urges Indian MPs
London: Indian MPs currently on a visit to Sri Lanka should raise concerns about the "safety and dignity" of the hundreds of thousands of Tamils who have been displaced by civil war, Am....
- Yangon preparing for large-scale conflict: Dhaka
Dhaka: Bangladesh has said it is responding to threats from its eastern neighbour Myanmar, which has amassed troops on the border and readied warships and fighter jets "in preparation for a....
- Rebel gets state honours -- for '71 role
Dhaka: A Maoist shot dead by security forces has been cremated with state honours in recognition of his role in Bangladesh's war of independence, media reported today.
Nirapada Ba....
- Rebel gets state honours -- for '71 role
Dhaka: A Maoist shot dead by security forces has been cremated with state honours in recognition of his role in Bangladesh's war of independence, media reported today.
Nirapada Ba....
- Dhaka deploys more troops as tension mounts at Myanmar border
Dhaka: Bangladesh has rushed more troops and stepped up diplomatic moves as tension continues to mount along its 300 km border with Myanmar over a fence being erected by Yangon.
Dhaka....
- Afghan envoy blames bases outside country for terrorism
New Delhi: Bases outside the country were responsible for the rise in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, its Ambassador to India, Sayed Makhdoom Raheem, said today in the aftermath of the suicid....
- Indian MPs head to Sri Lanka to study Tamil relief camps
Chennai: Ten MPs belonging to India's ruling alliance are headed to Sri Lanka today and they said their main aim is to see the conditions in the camps where thousands of Tamils displaced by....
- Nirupama Rao visits embassy in Kabul after blast
Kabul/New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao today visited the Indian embassy in Afghanistan, which was the target of a suicide attack on Thursdar that left 17 people dead. She, however, ref....
- Nirupama Rao to visit Kabul today
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is likely to go to Afghanistan today to take stock of the situation in the aftermath of the suicide attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, in which 17 ....
- Dhaka vows to resolve Tipaimukh dam issue with Delhi
Dhaka: India has assured that it neither plans irrigation nor would it withdraw water from a dam that it plans to build on Barak river in Manipur state, says a report tabled in parliament.
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- Dhaka seeks access to Nepal and Bhutan through India
Dhaka: Bangladesh has urged India to give it transit to Nepal and Bhutan to boost bilateral and South Asian regional trade and connectivity.
The subject will be high on the agenda whe....
- 12 die in Taliban attack on Indian embassy in Kabul
Kabul/New Delhi: A Taliban suicide bomber exploded near the Indian embassy in Kabul today, killing 12 people and injuring nearly 90 in the second such attack since July 2008. No Indian was kill....
- Indian embassy members safe: foreign secretary
New Delhi: All staffers at the Indian embassy that was attacked by a suicide bomber in the Afghan capital today morning were safe, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said here today.
She ....
- Suicide bombing near Indian embassy in Kabul, 7 dead
Kabul: Seven people were killed in a suicide bombing near the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital today morning. The explosion occurred on the road on which the India embassy and the Afghan in....
- Dhaka to spend $1.6 bn to dredge 53 rivers
Dhaka: Bangladesh's Planning Commission has approved a $1.69 billion mega plan to dredge 53 of its major waterways over the next eight years and has invited investment proposals to implemen....
- Curbs lifted on Malaysian Indian activist
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian authorities have lifted restrictions on legislator-lawyer M. Manoharan who was the legal advisor of the banned outfit Hindu Rights Action Front (Hindraf).
Mano....
- Repeat of 1962 India-China war not possible: IAF chief
New Delhi: A repeat of the 1962 India-China war is not possible now as the Indian armed forces have enhanced their capability, Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik said today. ....
- Indian concerns on visas to Kashmiris conveyed to China
New Delhi: India today conveyed its "well-justified concern" to the Chinese government over the issue of separate visas to Indian passport holders from Jammu and Kashmir.
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- 21 Tibetans arrested for anti-China protests
New Delhi: More than 20 Tibetan activists were arrested when they attempted to jump the wall of the Chinese Embassy here today, when China celebrates the 60th anniversary of its formation as a ....
- Is Indian help needed for transport infrastructure?: Bangladesh
Dhaka: The debate over providing access to India to help reach its northeast region has intensified in Bangladesh as the South Asian neighbours prepare for a summit level meeting between their ....
- Hasina to discuss transit issue with India during visit
Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to visit India later this month when the politically contentious issue of giving transit facility to India through Bangladesh territory will be dis....
- Give Indian citizenship to Tamil refugees: Ravi Shankar
Bangalore: Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has backed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's call to give Indian citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India.
Ravi ....
- Post-war, India helps Sri Lanka rebuild Tamil areas
New Delhi: From vocational training to mine clearing, India is providing sweeping help to Sri Lanka to rebuild vast areas after the end of a quarter-century-long Tamil separatist campaign.
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- 'Chinese see India as enemy, but army lacks devotion'
London: India is the country that is spoken of most often as an enemy in China, media reported today, but quoted a retired Chinese officer as saying the men serving the People's Liberation ....
- Three walk from Tibet to Bodh Gaya to pray for Dalai Lama
Patna: Three Buddhist devotees have travelled hundreds of kilometres on foot from Tibet and reached the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya to pray for the long life of Tibetan spiritual leader the D....
- India's moon mission lauded in Dhaka daily
Dhaka: Applauding India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission and the discovery of water on the moon, Dhaka media has said the find has significantly widened the scope for space research.
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- India's role in Afghanistan appreciated by all: PM
Pittsburgh: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says people of Afghanistan as also European and American leaders are appreciative of India's role in Afghanistan where it has invested $1.5 billion....
- Send MPs to study Sri Lanka refugee crisis, PM and Sonia told
New Delhi: A group of cabinet ministers and MPs from Tamil Nadu today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi to send a team to Sri Lanka where they said the mil....
- Telugu ghazal singer on peace mission to Afghanistan
Hyderabad: A popular Telugu ghazal singer Ghazal Srinivas, who holds the Guinness World Record for singing in most languages at one concert, is on a peace mission to war-torn Afghanistan.
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- 10 killed as earthquake rocks Bhutan and India's northeast
Guwahati/Thimpu: A high magnitude earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale today killed at least 10 people in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and left dozens more injured, while several bu....
- Hindu devotee dies in Bangladesh temple clash
Dhaka: Over 200 followers of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) have been arrested in Bangladesh following the death of a Hindu devotee in a dispute over a temple, a m....
- India welcomes successful Afghan elections
New Delhi: India has welcomed the successful presidential elections in Afghanistan, with the preliminary results in favour of the incumbent, Hamid Karzai.
The elections were held on A....
- Karunanidhi's emissary Maran meets PM over Sri Lanka
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi today asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to "exert diplomatic pressure at appropriate levels" on the Sri Lankan government to end th....
- India committed to rehabilitate Lankan Tamils: PM
Chennai: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reiterated the central government's commitment to rehabilitation of internally displaced civilians (IDP) in northern Sri Lanka. In his reply to Ka....
- NSA calls discussion over Chinese incursions
New Delhi: National security adviser M K Narayanan has summoned a high-level assemblage of top official today to organise a appurtenant response to Chinese incursions which is creating distres....
- Indians among 92 given Malaysian citizenship after 20-year wait
Kuala Lumpur: The long wait of over two decades has ended for 92 people, many of them ethnic Indians, who were granted Malaysian citizenship as part of the government's drive to cut the bac....
- Arrest those who felled 30,000 trees: Bangladesh PM
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has directed officials to nab those people who were allegedly involved in the felling of 30,000 trees along the coast of Cox's Bazaar, even if....
- China interested in IPI, India can rejoin: Iranian envoy
New Delhi: With India going slow on the tri-nation gas pipeline, Iranian ambassador to India Seyed Mehdi Nabizadeh today said China is interested in the proposed multi-billion project but left ....
- India, China like brothers: Consul general
Mumbai: India and China are not just neighbours, but are also brothers, China's new consul general here Wang Donghna said today.
Speaking to Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir, whom ....
- India, China like brothers: Consul general
Mumbai: India and China are not just neighbours, but are also brothers, China's new consul general here Wang Donghna said today.
Speaking to Maharashtra Governor S.C. Jamir, whom ....
- India denies firing by Chinese troops across LAC
New Delhi: India today denied a media report about two Indian soldiers getting injured in firing by Chinese troops in Sikkim recently.
"A media report about two ITBP (Indo-Tibetan....
- Border incursions are nothing to worry about, says Ladakhis
Jammu: Residents of Ladakh are not particularly worried by media reports of recent Chinese incursions in the mountainous region of the upper Himalayas. They see these intrusions as "routine....
- Musharraf quit as part of settlement: Zardari
Islamabad: Former president and military dictator Pervez Musharraf had resigned as part of a negotiated settlement that was guaranteed by "international and local powers", President Asi....
- Arunachal asks New Delhi to firm up stand against Chinese claims
Itanagar: The government in the frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh today urged New Delhi to act tough on Chinese claims over the state and snub Beijing's opposition to Dalai Lama's pro....
- Bangladesh experts debate Dhaka-Delhi effort for connectivity
Dhaka: A cross-section of opinion makers in Bangladesh have welcomed a Dhaka-Delhi resolve to improve connectivity among the South Asian neighbours, but have expressed reservations on many coun....
- Dhaka won't hand over top ULFA leader to India
Dhaka: Bangladesh says it will not hand over Indian separatist leader Anup Chetia, who served a jail term here for entering the country with fake documents, but stressed it would not allow its ....
- India visit groundbreaking: Bangladesh foreign minister
Dhaka: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni has termed the meeting with her Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna "groundbreaking" as New Delhi has agreed to Dhaka's request for connecti....
- Pleasant politics at Dhaka Iftar party
Dhaka: "Please join parliament and speak," Bangladesh Prime minister Sheikh Hasina urged opposition leader Khaleda Zia who said nothing but gave a chuckle.
An Iftar party host....
- India closely monitoring Chinese activities along Arunachal: Krishna
New Delhi: Downplaying incursions into Indian territory, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna today said India was closely monitoring the Chinese build-up along Arunachal Pradesh.
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- Delhi, Dhaka to sign pacts on terror, trade
New Delhi: India and Bangladesh today decided to step up trade and connectivity and to conclude three pacts on combating terror. The agreements are expected to be signed when Prime Minister She....
- Hasina dispels security fears over Asian highway via India
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has dismissed as "bogus" the campaign against the country being connected to the proposed Asian Highway through India.
Ruling ou....
- Malaysia detains 116 Indians, Sri Lankans for human trafficking
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian immigration officials on Tuesday discovered a major human trafficking syndicate when authorities detained 116 Indian and Sri Lankan citizens believed to be headed for In....
- India, Bangladesh to discuss Tipaimukh, trade, terror on Tuesday
New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's trip here later this year, India and Bangladesh will hold talks on Tuesday on sensitive issues like the contentious Tipaimukh hydroelectri....
- Malaysian Indian Congress reaches out to other parts of diaspora
Kuala Lumpur: Two members of the Punjabi community are, for the first time, on Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) chief S. Samy Vellu's list of nominees for the organisation's poll next on....
- Tipaimukh dam, trade to top Delhi-Dhaka talks
Dhaka: A "congenial ambience" between Bangladesh and India would be of help when issues like Tipaimukh dam, trade and transit are taken up during the visit of Foreign Minister Dipu Moni....
- Bangladesh ex-minister dies in accident
Dhaka: M. Saifur Rahman, a former Bangladesh finance minister, died in a road accident on Saturday.
Three members of his staff also died when the driver of his sports utility vehicle ....
- Two-way fight likely in Malaysian Indian Congress poll
Kuala Lumpur: The rivalry in the Malaysian Indian Congress has become sharper with both party chief S. Samy Vellu and his arch rival S. Subramaniam releasing separate 'official' lists o....
- Indian, Pakistani militants use Bangladesh for transit: Police
Dhaka: Islamist militants fighting in Jammu and Kashmir have regularly used Bangladesh as a transit point to travel to Pakistan, an Indian militant nabbed by the police has said. Safe havens ha....
- Indians pray for racial harmony on Malaysia's Independence Day
Kuala Lumpur: Ethnic Indians held special prayers to seek racial harmony on Malaysia's 52nd Independence Day and condemned last week's display of a severed cow head by a group of protes....
- Tamil journalist sentenced to 20 years imprisonment
Colombo: A Tamil journalist charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and Emergency Regulations in Sri Lanka was sentenced today to a 20-year rigorous jail term by a court, officials said.
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- Don't import Indian eggs: Dhaka poultry operators
Dhaka: Bangladesh's poultry operators are protesting egg imports from India that enter the market during the festive season at less than half the price.
As two trucks carrying the....
- Sri Lanka to resettle refugees with Indian help: Jayasinghe
New Delhi: Sri Lanka will work for stronger ties with India and ensure the quick rehabilitation of Tamils displaced in the military conflict, Colombo's high commissioner Romesh Jayasinghe s....
- Protests against B'desh extra-judicial killings
Dhaka: Bangladesh's Left parties and human rights bodies have protested against what they say are extra-judicial killings of 61 people between January and August this year.
"S....
- Indian jailed in Bangladesh for gun-running
Dhaka: Indian national Russel Sangma has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for gun-running by a court in Sherpur in northern Bangladesh.
Sangma, 25, belongs to Battala vill....
- Malaysian Gujaratis fast during Paryushan
Malacca (Malaysia): For Gujarati Jains here, the Paryushan fast has coincided with that of holy Ramadan being observed by the majority Muslim population.
Fasting is common among the t....
- 36 killed in Afghanistan bomb blast
Kabul: A powerful blast rocked the city of Kandahar in south Afghanistan on Tuesday evening leaving 36 persons dead and over 60 injured, all of them civilians, officials said.
Ghulam ....
- India to resolve issues with neighbours with dialogue: PM
New Delhi: Without naming Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said India has been a victim of terrorism but will strive to engage neighbours constructively to resolve differences thro....
- Enough space for India, China to grow: Krishna
New Delhi: Ruling out rivalry with Beijing, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Monday said that there was "enough space for both India and China to grow", and stressed that outst....
- Dhaka not to recognise Kosovo: official
Dhaka: Bangladesh has decided not to recognise Kosovo as an independent Balkan state, rejecting a request from the US.
Dhaka has made it clear that it would like to keep away (from th....
- Dhaka wants more information from Delhi on Tipaimukh dam
Dhaka: Ahead of Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni's visit to India on Sep 7, Dhaka wants more information on Delhi's plan to build Tipaimukh dam in Manipur state, a senior official ....
- Relatives can defend Malaysian Indian in sedition trial
Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian court has ruled that Indian origin lawyer-lawmaker Karpal Singh can be represented in a sedition trial by his family members as well as lawyers.
The high cou....
- Give us passage to Nepal, Bhutan, B'desh: India
Akhaurah (India-Bangladesh Border): Bangladesh has in principle agreed to provide transit facilities to India but in return has demanded a corridor through West Bengal to carry out bilateral tr....
- Soldier who fought mutineers is Dhaka's new hero
Dhaka: Bangladesh Rifles' (BDR) Subedar Major Nurul Islam, who died while resisting colleagues staging a mutiny in February, is the country's new hero.
Six months after the tw....
- More than 50 killed during Aghanistan voting
Kabul: More than 50 people were killed during today's voting in the Afghanistan presidential election, the government said after lifting the day-long reporting restriction.
Interi....
- Chidambaram to visit Bhutan
New Delhi: Home Minister P.Chidambaram will leave for Thimphu on Friday on a three-day official visit to Bhutan, his first foreign tour after taking over the portfolio on Dec 1 last year.
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- Bangladesh border guards to have new name, uniform
Dhaka: Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), the country's border guards whose troopers mutinied in February killing 73 people, will soon have a new name, uniform, insignia and a law to try those member....
- Dhaka to continue with peace accord in Buddhist tribal area
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government has said it would press ahead with vacating army camps as per the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord, allaying security concerns of the Bengali populatio....
- Terror will not deter us from Afghanistan rebuilding: Krishna
New Delhi: In an oblique message to Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Tuesday said that acts of terror will not deter India from the reconstruction of Afghanistan and paid hom....
- India to finance 'sensitive' areas' projects itself: Krishna
New Delhi: After clashing with China at Asian Development Bank (ADB) over funding for a project in Arunachal Pradesh, India has decided not to approach international agencies to finance schem....
- Murder charge against Bangladesh PM dropped
Dhaka: A Dhaka court today dropped a murder charge against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her political associates, which was levelled almost three years ago for being present at a rally that....
- Malaysian Indian Congress youth, women's wing chiefs re-elected
Kuala Lumpur: Delegates of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) have re-elected the chiefs of their Youth and Wanita (women) wings, setting the pace for the party's plenary meeting and elect....
- Dhaka names ex-intelligence sleuth, diplomat as deserter
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government has declared as deserter an army brigadier general who was a top military intelligence official posted in its mission in Washington last year.
Brigadi....
- India desires peace in South Asia: Manmohan
New Delhi: India desires peace with all its neighbours in South Asia, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today.
"We want peace with our neighbours. We want to create an environmen....
- Indian workers at Afghan dam face security nightmare
New Delhi: One of India's flagship projects in Afghanistan, the Salma Dam, has turned into a security nightmare, with its neighbourhood being the battleground for two rival warlords, one of....
- Delhi keen, but Dhaka wants to go slow on border trade
Dhaka: Dhaka has opted for a 'go slow' approach to a proposal by Delhi to set up markets at some border points to facilitate commodity exchange between small traders of the two countrie....
- Dhaka, New Delhi to discuss Tipaimukh dam next month
Dhaka: Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni will be in India early next month to discuss the Tipaimukh dam issue and to follow up on assurances given to a parliamentary delegation that went to....
- Tharoor non-committal on Indians in Sri Lanka jails
New Delhi: Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliyaar, an influential leader of Kerala Muslims, today said that Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor was non-committal on the possibi....
- Address issue of political prisoners, India to Myanmar
New Delhi: Reacting to the sentencing of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for another 18 months, India today urged Myanmar's ruling junta to push the process of political....
- Rights group urges arms embargo against Myanmar
New Delhi: Reacting to the sentencing of Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to imprisonment over an uninvited intrusion by an American tourist three months ago, a rights grou....
- China more powerful but no need to worry: Defence experts
New Delhi: Even as Indian Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta raised eyebrows with his comments that India cannot match China in military capability, former armed forces chiefs and defence analyst....
- India's Tipaimukh issue not a big problem: Dhaka minister
Dhaka: Bangladesh will seek talks with India to resolve the issues arising out of the latter's proposed Tipaimukh dam, and it was "not a big problem", a minister has said.
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- Rights activist urges India, B'desh to resolve border deaths
Dhaka: A visiting Indian human rights activist has urged Dhaka and New Delhi to resolve the issue of border guards shooting dead people infiltrating the porous frontier.
Kirity Roy, s....
- Dhaka firm seeks $7 mn Indian credit to buy CNG buses
Dhaka: The state-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation has sought a Taka 500 million ($7 million) credit from India to purchase 100 compressed natural gas (CNG)-run buses to replace its age....
- Dhaka begins troop withdrawal from Chittagong Hill Tracts
Dhaka: Bangladesh has begun withdrawing its army from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), home to Buddhist tribals, to enforce a pact signed in 1997.
Two camps were vacated on Friday in....
- Rights activist urges India, B'desh to resolve border deaths
Dhaka: A visiting Indian human rights activist has urged Dhaka and New Delhi to resolve the issue of border guards shooting dead people infiltrating the porous frontier.
Kirity Roy, s....
- India, China begin 13th round of border talks
New Delhi: Special representatives of India and China today began two-day talks that will focus on devising a framework for a final settlement of their decades-old boundary dispute.
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- India, China to discuss border settlement issue today
New Delhi: Against the backdrop of Beijing's renewed claims to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, special representatives of India and China will hold two-day talks here beginning today to evolve....
- Chinese warship to anchor at Indian port
New Delhi: A Chinese warship will make a "port call" at Kochi on the western coast on Aug 8-12, reflecting China's increasing interest in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), said an offi....
- Paint samples from India, China contaminated with lead
Washington: Seventy-five percent of paint samples from India, China and Malaysia contained dangerous levels of lead that greatly exceeded safety norms, says a new environmental health study.
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- Protesting Dhaka judges forcibly retired, reinstated
Dhaka: Two judges who led a hundred others in a demonstration against a government decision were forced into retirement, but have been reinstated after they apologised.
Prime Minister....
- Khaleda Zia's son challenges trial in corruption case
Dhaka: Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia's younger son Arafat Rahman Koko has challenged his trial for alleged corruption in two deals, one with German telecom major Siemens and the ....
- Zia criticises India's Tipaimukh dam project again
Dhaka: The battle lines have been drawn in Bangladesh against India's proposed Tipaimukh dam with opposition leader Khaleda Zia accusing the Sheikh Hasina government of hatching "a fore....
- Tamils still coming to India, but it is now a trickle
New Delhi: More than two months after the Tamil Tigers were decimated, Tamils are still fleeing Sri Lanka to come to India, but mostly by air. And the number has reduced to a trickle.
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- Get Indians freed from Sri Lankan prisons: Kerala MP
New Delhi: India should hold talks with Sri Lanka to bring back around 40 Indian prisoners from there, a Kerala MP demanded in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
"India should hold discu....
- Dhaka may get over $10 bn in remittances
Dhaka: Bangladesh could receive $10.87 billion in remittances in the current fiscal from its vast manpower employed abroad if the global oil price does not fall, the World Bank has said.
- Bangladesh seeks joint study on India's Tipaimukh dam
Dhaka: Bangladesh will insist on a joint study to determine any adverse impact on its ecology that a dam India proposes to build near its border, a senior politician said today.
A day....
- Cabinet approves special lifelong protection for Hasina
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Rehana and their children will get Special Security Force (SSF) protection in view of threats to their lives as per an official's ....
- Half a million Bangladeshis visit India each year
Dhaka: The serpentine queues outside the Indian high commission embody the average Bangladeshi's quest for a better life -- and in many ways a testimony to the human and diplomatic problems....
- Seven years on, Indian family jailed in Sri Lanka finds hope
Kollam (Kerala): For the first time in many years, 40-year-old Najma has renewed faith that her husband Nasir Abdul Aziz, in a Sri Lankan jail on drug trafficking charges since 2002, will come ....
- Dhaka remembers its first prime minister
Dhaka: A 1971 letter signed by then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, acknowledging Bangladesh's provisional government led by Tajuddin Ahmed, is part of an exhibition to commemorate Ahm....
- Dhaka opp parties keep out of team to inspect Indian dam
Dhaka: Bangladesh's opposition parties have opted out of a team that will visit the site of the Tipaimukh dam in India's Manipur state.
While Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP....
- IMF approves $2.6 bn loan to Sri Lanka
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government said on Saturday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $2.6 billion loan to Sri Lanka to support the country's reform programme.
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- Over 40,000 illegal Bangladeshi migrants deported from Delhi
New Delhi: The government has deported over 40,000 illegal Bangladeshi migrants from the national capital in the past six years, the Delhi High Court has been told.
In a fresh affidav....
- Over 40,000 illegal Bangladeshi migrants deported from Delhi
New Delhi: The government has deported over 40,000 illegal Bangladeshi migrants from the national capital in the past six years, the Delhi High Court has been told.
In a fresh affidav....
- Govt moves to bring back Indian prisoners in Sri Lanka
New Delhi: Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi has asked the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka to take necessary steps to bring back the Indians languishing in prisons in the is....
- Indian pilgrim, 96, wife, 90, killed in road accident
Kathmandu: A pilgrimage to the revered Pashupatinath temple of Nepal turned into a death trap for a group of Indian pilgrims with three dying in an early morning road smash in western Nepal tod....
- Indian envoy to Dhaka wins unexpected support
Dhaka: Criticised for his remarks made against Bangladeshi visa seekers, Indian High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty has won approval from an unexpected quarter. State Minister for Foreig....
- China supports Bangladesh-India talks on Tipaimukh dam
Dhaka: China has expressed support for talks between Dhaka and New Delhi over the proposed construction of Tipaimukh dam in India's Manipur state. The Barak river, on which the dam is to be....
- Colombo to resettle Tamils after demining operations
On Board Special Aircraft: External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Thursday said Sri Lanka has assured India that it will start the process of building houses for over 300,000 Tamil civilians....
- Advancing time helps Dhaka save power
Dhaka: Advancing the time by an hour has helped Bangladesh reduce power demand by 150 to 200 megawatt (MW) in the evenings, marginally easing the persistent electricity shortage.
Fac....
- Dhaka, Delhi spar over visa seekers, illegal migration
Dhaka: Bangladesh and India were engaged in a public debate over the issues of illegal migration and problems faced by visa seekers here, with Dhaka disapproving of remarks made by the Indian H....
- Kabul embassy attack will not deter India: Krishna
Phuket (Thailand): Reiterating its commitment to fight extremism of all kinds, India on Wednesday said the despicable attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul last year will not deter it from cont....
- Devolution, resettlement on course, Sri Lanka tells India
Phuket (Thailand): Sri Lanka today assured India that the process of devolution of powers to the Tamil minority is on course as it tries to resettle over 300,000 civilians displaced by the mili....
- We want to revive rail link with India: Hasina
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her government wants to reopen the rail links with India for better connectivity and to promote trade, investment and people-to-peop....
- Sikh historian from New Zealand passes away
Chandigarh: The man from faraway New Zealand who came to Punjab in the 1950s as a Christian missionary but ended up being a globally-reputed historian on Sikhs has passed away. W.H. Mcleod, who....
- Bangladesh to revive economic ties with India, China
Dhaka: Shifting emphasis from multilateral to bilateral economic ties.
Bangladesh is to revive the Joint Economic Commissions (JECs) with its principal trade partners India and China....
- 25,000 Bangladesh visitors don't return home, says Indian envoy
Dhaka: Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty on Monday alleged that 25,000 among the Bangladeshi nationals visiting India every year do not return home.
Spea....
- B'desh president emphasises need for dialogue with India
Dhaka: Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman today said that the unresolved issues with India must be settled amicably through bilateral negotiations.
He made no mention of the issues, i....
- 25,000 B'desh visitors don't return home: Indian envoy
Dhaka: Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty today alleged that 25,000 among the Bangladeshi nationals visiting India every year do not return home.
Speaking....
- 300 'boat people' stuck in Andaman island
Dhaka: Over 300 people rescued from their sinking boats and detained on Andaman island for the past many months have nowhere to go as countries India say they belong to do not want them.
- Dhaka moots PM level talks if Indian dam found harmful
Dhaka: Bangladesh has said that if the parliamentary team visiting the site of an Indian dam finds it "harmful", it would demand a meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission (JRC), to be at....
- Kalam wants India to adopt B'desh's Grameen Bank model
Dhaka: Inspired by Bangladesh's Grameen Bank endeavour, former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has mooted a separate Indian law for micro credit in rural areas, a media report here said....
- 'Bangladesh opposition misleading public on Indian project'
Dhaka: Bangladesh's main opposition is "misleading" the people on the proposed Indian dam at Tipaimukh with data and information that is "flawed", said the head of the parli....
- Sri Lankan diplomat advocating power sharing is sacked
New Delhi: One of Sri Lanka's most outspoken diplomats who consistently argued for devolution of power to the country's minorities has been sacked by Colombo.
In one of the m....
- Hasina wants unity to bargain with India over Tipaimukh dam
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for political unity to be able to "bargain better with India" over the contentious Tipaimukh dam issue between the South Asian ....
- India-Bangladesh trade can double by 2011: FICCI
New Delhi: India-Bangladesh bilateral trade can double by 2011, says the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), which has suggested a multi-pronged action agenda for cr....
- Happening restras in Bangkok have India connection
Bangkok: It is difficult to imagine Bangkok without Lebua at the State Tower, among the tallest buildings in Bangkok and home to a luxurious all-suite hotel. The same goes for the Dome at Lebua....
- Dhaka opposition dissatisfied with Indian assurance on dam
Dhaka: Protesters here began a 'long march' against a dam across the border in northeastern India as Bangladesh's main opposition rejected Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's....
- Abdul Kalam to visit Bangladesh next week
Dhaka: Former Indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will head to Bangladesh next week to interact with the leadership here and visit educational institutions.
Kalam will meet President ....
- Malaysian Indian leader's son stays out of party poll
Kuala Lumpur: The son of Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) chief S. Samy Vellu has said he will not contest the party poll, ending speculation that his father was promoting him to eventually succ....
- Manmohan meets Hasina to reaffirm ties
Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt): The use of Bangladesh territory by Indian insurgent groups, the contentious Tipaimukh dam, railway projects as well as other issues were on the anvil when Indian Prime ....
- Bangladesh team to visit Indian dam site on July 29
Dhaka: Bangladesh will send a team of lawmakers and water resources experts to India on July 29 to visit the site of the proposed Tipaimukh dam project in Manipur state in the northeast. Opposi....
- Dhaka postpones team's visit to Indian dam site
Dhaka: Bangladesh has postponed the visit of a team of lawmakers and water resources experts to the site of the Tipaimukh dam project in India as it awaits the finalisation of the tour dates af....
- Bangladesh team to visit Manipur, assess hydel project
Imphal/Agartala: A 10-member Bangladesh parliamentary delegation is expected to visit the Tipaimukh dam in Manipur this week in the backdrop of concerns over the project's possible ecologic....
- Border killings: Dhaka calls them murder, India cites self-defence
Dhaka: Trespassers being killed by India's Border Security Force (BSF) is the latest bone of contention at the ongoing talks between the top brass of the two neighbours' border guards.
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- Hasina to discuss controversial dam with Indian PM
Dhaka: The prime ministers of Bangladesh and India are expected to meet this week on the sidelines of the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit to discuss New Delhi's plan to construct the....
- Report of Indians killed in Afghanistan not confirmed: govt
New Delhi/Kabul: Indian external affairs ministry officials today said there was "no confirmation" of Pakistani media reports that six Indian nationals were killed in a Taliban attack i....
- 24 militants killed in aerial strikes in northwest Pakistan
Islamabad: At least 24 Islamist militants and four policemen were killed in overnight airstrikes in Pakistan's north-western region near Afghanistan, officials said today.
Pakista....
- Analyst who served in India is Hasina's new adviser
Dhaka: A US-trained political scientist and security analyst who has served in India has been appointed adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Gowher Rizvi was the Ford F....
- Meet Tamil aspirations to end violence: India tells Sri Lanka
New Delhi: A Closure to the cycle of violence in Sri Lanka is only possible after initiation of a political process that allows the aspirations of the Tamils within a united country to be met, ....
- I want to return home, Taslima Nasreen tells Sheikh Hasina
Dhaka: Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has petitioned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to be allowed to return home 15 years after fleeing death threats by Islamic militants. She h....
- Bangladesh MPs irked by claim they waste money
Dhaka: Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has come under fire in parliament for its report claiming that lawmakers waste public money by arriving late or staying away, causing disrupti....
- Tipaimukh dam could benefit Bangladesh: minister
Dhaka: India's plan to build the Tipaimukh dam on the Barak river could benefit Bangladesh, a minister has said, urging a patient approach by all concerned as Dhaka prepares to send a team ....
- Indian Army to help de-mine Sri Lanka
New Delhi: After providing medical services to thousands displaced by war, Indian soldiers will now go to Sri Lanka to help de-mine areas once held by the Tamil Tigers, it was announced today.
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- Exiled Tibetans concerned over Chinese repression in Tibet
Dharamsala: The Tibetan government-in-exile today expressed concern over the ongoing repression inside Tibet by the Chinese authorities since it crushed protests in March 2008.
"W....
- Mujib's portrait to adorn all Bangladesh currency notes
Dhaka: Bangladesh plans to have the portrait of its founding father, slain former president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on all currency notes, its finance minister said on Sunday.
The minis....
- Bangladesh faces political furore over Indian dam project
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government is coming under increasing pressures from its own ministers and ruling Awami League lawmakers to hold urgent bilateral talks with India, which is planning to bu....
- Manipur dam will not harm Bangladesh: India
Imphal: India's Tipaimukh dam project, coming up in Manipur on the river Barak that flows into Bangladesh, will not harm that country as feared by its politicians and civil society, say off....
- India say no to military involvement in Afghanistan
New Delhi: India today ruled out any military involvement in Afghanistan and underlined the need for greater international cooperation in restoring stability to the violence-torn country.
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- B'desh to give gas exploration contracts to foreign firms
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government may award offshore gas exploration contracts to multinational companies in the Bay of Bengal while excluding blocks that may fall in the territories under dispu....
- Bhutan, India to develop 10 hydel projects by 2020
Kolkata: India and Bhutan will jointly develop 10 hydroelectric projects by 2020, according to Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley.
"By 2020, the two countries have agreed t....
- Resolving Tipaimukh issue via talks with India: Hasina
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed confidence over resolving the controversy over the Tipaimukh dam project in India's northeast through talks with New Delhi.
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- Democracy yet to be firmly established in Bhutan: Thinley
Kolkata: Visiting Bhutan Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley said here on Monday that the democratic process in his country was doing "fairly well" but was not yet firmly establi....
- Manipal medical institution under fresh attack in Nepal
Kathmandu: Just four months after it was targeted by trade unions, the Manipal College of Medical Sciences in Nepal, one of the major Indian collaborations in the Himalayan republic, came under....
- Dhaka opp seeks probe against former caretaker govt
Dhaka: Bangladesh's main opposition party has approached the UN seeking a probe against the previous caretaker government for alleged human rights abuses.
In a memorandum address....
- Dhaka's ex-speaker tried for contempt of parliament
Dhaka: A former speaker of the Bangladesh parliament and two other senior officials may be tried for "contempt" after they boycotted a house committee probe meeting that is looking into....
- India less threatening to neighbours: Diplomat
Dhaka: India will be less threatening to its neighbours because of Washington's overlapping interests involving the countries in the region, US envoy to Bangladesh has said and urged Dhaka ....
- Zia can send her own team to see Indian dam: Hasina
Dhaka: Opposition leader Khaleda Zia is free to send her own team to see the Tipaimukh dam project in India, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said while reiterating her decision to s....
- Dhaka to enact law to better protect Hasina
Dhaka: Bangladesh is to enact a law that would provide more security personnel to protect Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other family members of the country's founding father Sheikh Mujib....
- Sri Lanka agrees to allow relief ship
New Delhi: Sri Lanka has agreed to allow a ship to off-load its contents, relief material sent by Tamil diaspora, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said here today after meeting a delegati....
- Dhaka parties spar over Indian river project
Dhaka: Bangladesh's political parties continue to spar over a river valley project India is planning in its northeastern region as New Delhi awaits a parliamentary team accompanied by exper....
- DMK for retrieval of island from SL: Karunanidhi
Chennai: With Indian fishermen repeatedly being attacked by the Sri Lankan Navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Thursday said the ruling DMK is ready to move a resolution in the as....
- Bhutan-India ties get new wings
Thimpu: External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Thursday visited Bhutan, his first trip abroad after assuming office, and stressed upon the "special relations" between the world's....
- Indo-Bangladesh mono drama to go global
Dhaka: An Indo-Bangladesh theatre venture articulating Sita's viewpoint on the epic Ramayana, that enthralled audiences here, is to tour Britain and North America.
According to L....
- Protests in Dhaka against Indian river project
Dhaka: Bangladesh's main opposition has threatened to move the United Nations as the Sheikh Hasina government has called for talks over a river valley project India is planning in its north....
- Indians should get adapted before Kailash yatra: Nepal
Kathmandu: With the death of six Indian pilgrims during the gruelling overland pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and the Mansarovar lake in Tibet, Nepal's concerned tourism board today issued a t....
- 'Arms found in Bangladesh meant for Indian insurgent group'
Dhaka: Arms and explosives seized in 2003 and again in 2004 belonged to an Indian insurgent group using Bangladeshi territory, former top officials of Bangladesh's National Services Intelli....
- Lanka turns away ship carrying aid for Tamils
Colombo: Sri Lanka's navy today turned away a vessel carrying relief aid for displaced Tamils after detaining the vessel and questioning its crew for three days.
The Captain Ali, ....
- Dhaka, Islamabad spar over 1971 'war crimes' trial: report
Dhaka: Thirty-eight years after Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan, the two countries are sparring over the "war crimes" committed in 1971, a media report here said today.
Dh....
- India denies attacks by its border forces on Nepalis
Kathmandu: Even as Nepal's lawmakers today decided to send a team to the western region, where there are growing claims of attacks on villagers by India's border security force - the Se....
- India for political solution in Sri Lanka
New Delhi: With the Tamil Tigers decimated, India today pledged to support initiatives aimed at finding a permanent political solution in Sri Lanka to ensure equal rights to the Tamil minority.....
- Dawood Ibrahim has agents in Bangladesh
Dhaka: Underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his aide Chhota Shakil run a network of over 150 "highly paid agents" in Bangladesh, authorities here have said after last week's arrest of ....
- China donates for cyclone victims
Kolkata: China has donated $30,000 (Rs.1.41 million) to the Indian Red Cross Society for cyclone relief work in West Bengal.
China's ambassador to India, Zhang Yan, on Thursday ha....
- 16 killed in Bangladesh road crash
Dhaka: At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured today when a bus and a truck collided head-on in Bangladesh's northwestern Sirajganj district, according to police.
The ac....
- Dhaka moots gas corridor through India
Dhaka: Bangladesh is mooting a trans-border gas corridor connecting Iran and Myanmar through several countries including India.
The move comes close on the heels of its decision to jo....
- Dhaka to send lawmakers to study Indian river project
Dhaka: A team of lawmakers and experts from Bangladesh will visit the Tipaimukh project in India's northeast to study if it could adversely affect the flow of river Barak that is common to ....
- India congratulates Nepal
New Delhi: Congratulating Nepal's new prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, India today hoped that the peace process, including the framing of the constitution, would move "expeditiously&#....
- India asks Sri Lanka to address 'root causes'
New Delhi: With Sri Lanka's war against Tamil Tigers coming to an end, India's new External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Friday urged Colombo to address the "root cause of the c....
- India pledges support to new Nepal PM
Kathmandu: India's new government today pledged support to neighbour Nepal's new prime minister-elect communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal, saying it was ready to assist the new cabinet ....
- 'Political' appointees to Dhaka's India, other key missions likely
Dhaka: Tariq A. Karim, who served in India as Bangladesh's deputy high commissioner and was later ambassador to the US and to South Africa, may return to New Delhi to head the mission.
- Dhaka media urges India to talk as a powerful neighbour
Dhaka: Congratulating Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Congress-led alliance on winning a second term in office, sections of Bangladesh media have said this is a good augury for dev....
- Two Indians killed in Nepal church blast
Kathmandu: A teenager and a newly-married woman on her honeymoon from eastern India were killed while over a dozen others, mostly youngsters, were injured as a bomb exploded in one of Nepal'....
- Blaming India, Nepal PM quits
Kathmandu: After obstructing parliament for three weeks, Nepal's Maoist party finally allowed the house to convene today with caretaker Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda making an....
- Address Tamil demands, Jayalalitha tells Sri Lanka
Chennai: In her first comment after the decimation of the Tamil Tigers, AIADMK leader J. Jayalalitha today asked Sri Lanka to address "all the genuine grievances" of the Tamil community....
- Legitimate aspirations of Tamils should be met: Pranab
New Delhi: India is concerned about the Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka and wants that their 'legitimate aspirations' should be addressed, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said o....
- India to seek evidence from SL to shut Gandhi murder case
New Delhi: India will seek forensic evidence from Sri Lanka to confirm the deaths of Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and his intelligence head to finally close the case on the assass....
- Indian envoys to visit Sri Lanka: Mukherjee
New Delhi: With Sri Lanka's military offensive against the Tamil Tigers coming to an end, India said today it would send send special envoys to Colombo and is also preparing a Rs.500 crore ....
- Arms haul: Dhaka to question former ministers
Dhaka: Several ministers in the former Khaleda Zia government may be questioned in the sensational Chittagong arms haul that was meant for Indian insurgents, a media report today quoted the pub....
- LTTE vanquished, victory for our country: Rajapaksa
Colombo: The victory "achieved by defeating the LTTE" is the victory of the country, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa said while addressing parliament here today, adding the Tamil ....
- Years of democracy brought dividends to India
Islamabad: Years of democracy have brought dividends to India, something Pakistan too can learn from, an editorial in a leading English daily said on Wednesday on the Congress-led United Progre....
- Chiefs smuggling arms to India, to be prosecuted in Dhaka
Dhaka: Two former Bangladesh Army generals, who headed the National Security Intelligence (NSI), will be prosecuted for facilitating the landing of Chinese arms meant for insurgents in India....
- India sympathises with Sri Lankan Tamils: minister
Shimla: India is sympathetic to the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka but will have nothing to do with the Tamil Tigers, Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said today.
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- Dhaka to take maritime boundary row to UN
Dhaka: Bangladesh is preparing to take to the UN its maritime boundary row with India and Myanmar in the Bay of Bengal.
"We are making preparations to put forward our objection at....
- A distracted India ignores crisis engulfing neighbourhood
New Delhi: The firm action being taken by the militaries of Pakistan and Sri Lanka against the Taliban and the remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealem (LTTE) respectively over the last....
- India trying to help Tamils in Sri Lanka: PM
Chennai: India is doing what it can to help the beleaguered Tamil community in Sri Lanka lead "a life of dignity and honour", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today.
The pr....
- New Delhi to resume transit talks with Dhaka after polls
Dhaka: India has proposed "constructive talks" on the contentious issue of transit facility through Bangladesh to reach its north-eastern region once a new government takes office in Ne....
- India made an enormous blunder: Maoist minister
Kathmandu: As Nepal's first Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda announced his resignation in a televised address to the nation after an escalating quarrel with allies and Pr....
- Prachanda quits as Nepal PM after army row escalates
Kathmandu: Nepal's first Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda today announced his resignation in a televised address to the nation sending shock waves through the nation and r....
- Playing politics with Tamil lives in Sri Lanka
Chennai: Sri Lanka's beleaguered Tamil community deserved better from Tamil Nadu. As the West gets hyper to know what it can do to end the killings of innocent civilians in the conflict and....
- Sri Lanka hails Indian medical aid to war displaced
Colombo: Sri Lanka has hailed neighbouring India for providing urgent healthcare assistance to thousands of civilians fleeing the island's northern war zone where the troops and the Tamil T....
- Kamal Haasan hopes for peace returning to Sri Lanka
Chennai: South Indian superstar Kamal Haasan today said he hoped that peace will return to Sri Lanka through the efforts of Tamils the world over.
"We want the ethnic minority Tam....
- Nepal vigilantes detain another Indian
Kathmandu: An Indian man, said to be in his 40s and apparently mentally unbalanced, has been taken into control by villagers in a Nepali town near the Indian border and handed over to police am....
- Confident of LTTE rout, Sri Lanka draws tourism plans
New Delhi: The Sri Lankan government plans to turn the country's war-torn northeastern region, which boasts of some of the island's most scenic beaches, into a tourist attraction as the....
- Sri Lanka didn't act under Indian pressure : Congress
New Delhi: The Congress party today insisted that Sri Lanka did not call off "combat operations" against the Tamil Tigers due to Indian pressure, and instead credited the move to "w....
- Karunanidhi breaks fast as Sri Lanka ends operations
Chennai/Colombo: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi ended today a hunger strike in support of a ceasefire in Sri Lanka after Colombo said it was ending "combat operations" against....
- Troops capture more LTTE-held areas, UN official reaches Colombo
Colombo: Troops today captured more LTTE-held areas as a senior UN official arrived in Sri Lanka to assess the needs of tens of thousands of civilians who fled the rebel-held areas and those wh....
- Menon, Narayanan to discuss with Sri Lankan President today
Colombo: India's Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan landed here today and flew straight to President Mahinda Rajapaksa's residence Temple T....
- New Delhi approaches Bangladesh opposition leader
Dhaka: India and Bangladesh have agreed to hold "discussions at all levels" to consolidate bilateral ties, the Indian envoy said here after a meeting with opposition leader and former p....
- SL seeks aid for civilian crisis, endgame for LTTE
Colombo: Sri Lanka and the UN Thursday made frantic appeals for assistance as the exodus of Tamil civilians from the war zone escalated into a grave humanitarian crisis even as the governme....
- India to Sri Lanka: Killings of Tamil civilians must stop
New Delhi: Expressing concern at the plight of civilians in Sri Lanka, India Wednesday asked the war-torn nation to ensure that the killings of Tamil civilians are stopped and underlined th....
- UN Security Council discusses situation in Sri Lanka
New York: The UN Security Council met on Wednesday to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, where more than 100,000 refugees have fled rebel-held areas.
The informal meeti....
- LTTE chief in shrunken war zone as 95,000 civilians flee
Colombo: The elusive Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Sri Lankan government believes, is in the shrunken war zone in the island's north from where over 95,000 civilians have....
- India asks Sri Lanka to ensure safety of Tamil civilians
New Delhi/Patna: With the Sri Lankan Army stepping up offensive against the LTTE that has vowed never to surrender, India on Tuesday conveyed its concerns and appealed to Colombo to ensure th....
- Two LTTE leaders surrender
Colombo: Two second rung leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have surrendered to the Sri Lankan military, a military spokesman said today.
The two were identified....
- Thousands more flee SL war zone, no trace of LTTE chief
Colombo: Thousands of sick, injured and fatigued Tamil civilians fled Sri Lanka's shrunken war zone Tuesday in a heart rending "human avalanche", but there was no trace of the elusi....
- 30,000 civilians flee LTTE-held areas, 17 killed in blasts
Colombo: Over 30,000 civilians Monday fled Sri Lanka's northern war-zone while 17 people were killed in three suicide bomb attacks by the Tamil Tigers as troops advanced deep into the last ....
- Rajapaksa urges global community to pressurise LTTE
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Saturday urged the international community to exert pressure on the Tamil Tigers to free civilians, rather than asking him to pause the military ....
- Civilian casualties 'unacceptable', India tells SL
New Delhi: Amid criticism that it wasn't doing enough to influence Sri Lanka, India Friday made it clear to Colombo that further civilian casualties in the war zone would be "totally un....
- CII India Business Forum launched in China
New Delhi: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Thursday launched an India Business Forum (IBF) in China, a lobby to promote bilateral trade and economic cooperation between the two count....
- 20 killed in Afghanistan quake
Kabul: At least 20 people were killed in an earthquake that hit Afghanistan's Nangarhar province early Friday, officials said.
The earthquake, with magnitude 5.1 on the Richter scale, had it....
- Cultural fests in India, China in 2010
Beijing: A Festival of India will be held in China and a reciprocal Festival of China in India in 2010 with the aim "to promote mutual awareness and understanding of the rich cultural herit....
- Rajapaksa visits former LTTE hub Kilinochchi
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today paid a surprise visit to Kilinochchi, the former political hub of the Tamil Tigers, officials here said.
Government troops captured ....
- Insurgents make inroads in Pakistan's Punjab province: NYT
New York: Taliban insurgents are teaming up with local militant groups to make inroads in Pakistan's Punjab province, reinvigorating an alliance that Pakistani and American authorities say po....
- In year-long celebrations, exiled Tibetans will say 'Thank You India!'
Bylakuppe (Karnataka): Tibetans, young and old, including monks, nuns and children are revving up to celebrate five decades of exiled life in sprawling settlements as this one by showcasing t....
- Indian medical team to treat Sri Lankans
Colombo: A 52-member Indian medical team including physicians and surgeons left here on Wednesday for Sri Lanka's east to treat civilians wounded in fighting between the military and the Ta....
- Fourteen killed in suicide blast in Sri Lanka
Colombo: Fourteen people were killed and about 30, including a minister, were seriously wounded Tuesday as a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber targeted a procession celebrating Prophet Moham....
- 50 years as outsiders, but hopes alive
New Delhi: Some fled Tibet as children 50 years ago, some were born here. Yet what binds the Tibetan community in exile ? despite being well-entrenched in the ebb and flow of life in the Indi....
- Indian medicos, aid arrive in Sri Lanka
Colombo: Indian physicians, surgeons and para-medical staff, technical staff and medical equipments arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday to help treat the war-affected, internally displaced civilians....
- No Indian involvement in Lahore attack: SL
Colombo: Ending speculations in some quarters in Pakistan, Sri Lanka on Monday firmly said there was "no Indian involvement" in the terror attack on its cricketers in Lahore last week but s....
- Nepal Maoists fear royalist plot in New Delhi
Kathmandu: With former prime minister and opposition leader Girija Prasad Koirala scheduled to leave for India Wednesday, Nepal's ruling Maoist party today said a conspiracy was hatching in N....
- Islamists blame India for Bangladesh mutiny
Dhaka: As agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived here to help probe last week's mutiny, rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami party on Sunday accused India of being behind the killing....
- Nepal to rock with 'Indian Idol' trio
Kathmandu: Crowds had flocked to two public squares in Kathmandu valley to watch the grand finale of the popular reality show "Indian Idol" on a giant screen and jive to the songs by the thre....
- Lahore attack home grown, focus on LeJ, Jaish
London: Security officials in Pakistan are focusing on the possible involvement of two terrorist groups other than the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the recent armed attack on Sri Lankan cricketers ....
- SL newspapers offer Pak driver holiday package
Colombo: Describing a Pakistani driver as "hero of our time" for bravely saving the lives of Sri Lankan cricketers during the terror attack in Lahore, the state-run English newspapers have ....
- Protest against Zardari spreads in Pakistan
Islamabad: Businesses remained closed and thousands held protest rallies against President Asif Ali Zardari in Pakistan's largest province of Punjab on Friday.
Thousands of people thronged....
- Conspiracy theories abound post-Lahore attack
Islamabad: Did the police in Pakistan's Punjab province warn that Indian spy agency RAW would stage an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team? Was the attack linked to the action being taken....
- US reviewing policies towards Pak: Obama
Washington: US President Barack Obama has expressed deep concern about an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan, saying the country's frontier regions still remain safe havens for A....
- Lahore attack won't affect bilateral ties: SL
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government said Tuesday the attack on the country's cricket team in Pakistan will not affect the relationship between the two countries.
Speaking to reporters in Colo....
- 60 suspects arrested in Lahore terror attack
Lahore: As many as 60 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team here that left eight people dead and six players and their assistant....
- Lanka team return home, rushed to hospital
Colombo: Sri Lanka's wounded and traumatized cricketers, who braved a well-planned terror attack in Lahore, returned home in the early hours of Wednesday to receive a emotional welcome, as the ....
- Attack on cricketers shows Pak faces emboldened militants
Islamabad: The brazen terrorist ambush targeting the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore came as a shocking reminder of the threat posed to Pakistan by ever bolder Islamist militants.
Recent....
- Rajapaksa cuts Nepal visit, condemns attack
Colombo : The terror attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Pakistan's Lahore city on Tuesday led to outrage in the island nation, with President Mahinda Rajapaksa instructing that the players be b....
- Pakistan itself to blame for attack on players
New Delhi: In a stinging attack on Pakistan, the Congress party said on Tuesday that Islamabad itself was to blame for the terrorist attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore and called the cou....
- Nepal Maoists fear rise of boy king after Gyanendra's India visit
Kathmandu: Nepal's ruling Maoist party, who last year won their war against the country's revered royal dynasty, has now developed cold feet over ousted king Gyanendra's visit to India, feari....
- Telecom mess prevents Nepalis from voting for 'Indian Idol'
Kathmandu: On Sunday night, Sourabhee Debbarma from Agartala, capital of India's Tripura state, made history by becoming the first woman to win the coveted "Indian Idol" title since its incep....
- Bangladesh government competent to handle situation: Pranab
Kolkata: Terming the mutiny by border guards in Bangladesh as an internal matter of the neighbouring country, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the Sheikh Hasina gov....
- Bangladesh PM seeks FBI help to probe mutiny
Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday sought help from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to find out the ringleaders of the mutiny and bloodshed by the country's....
- Allow Red Cross to evacuate civilians, India tells Sri Lanka
Kolkata: India on Sunday asserted that a permanent solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka lay in proper devolution of power, and not through military success.
Speaking at a seminar h....
- Grab LTTE ceasefire offer to rescue civilians, India tells Sri Lanka
New Delhi: Amid mounting concern over the plight of 70,000 civilians trapped in the conflict zone, India Friday made a renewed appeal to Sri Lanka to seize the Tamil Tigers rebels' ceasefire of....
- Traditional India welcome for Gyanendra in Bhopal
Bhopal: Nepal's former King Gyanendra was accorded a traditional Indian welcome at a luxury hotel on his arrival in the city lateon Thursday to attend the marriage ceremony of his niece.
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- Bangladesh border guards' mutiny over: Government
Dhaka: The 33-hour mutiny by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) troopers ended on Thursday evening as the rebels laid down their arms in the face of an imminent attack by the army, which had moved tanks i....
- India puts border guards on alert, monitoring situation in Bangladesh
New Delhi/Guwahati: India on Wednesday put its frontier guards on maximum alert along the Bangladesh border following a border guards mutiny in the neighbouring country and is watching closely ....
- BDR mutiny could have implications on border: India's former envoy
New Delhi: The mutiny by the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on Wednesday is not only a major intelligence failure but its denouement must be closely watched by India as it could impact the internal st....
- India urges Lanka to evacuate civilians, offers help
New Delhi: India on Tuesday urged Sri Lanka to work out "appropriate and credible procedures" to evacuate civilians from the war zone through land and sea routes and said it was ready to prov....
- LTTE says Colombo air attack was a suicide mission
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have claimed responsibility for the on Friday night air raid over the capital Colombo that left at least two people dead and 50 injured. The two-ligh....
- Growing drug ties choking India, Nepal
Kathmandu: Despite scores of law enforcement agencies across the world battling to control drug smuggling, the menace has mushroomed last year with growing links between South Asian neighbour....
- Sri Lankan Navy arrests 10 Indian fishermen
Colombo: At least 10 Indian fishermen have been arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy, a naval official said on Friday.
The fishermen were arrested off the island's north-western coast of Thalai....
- Sri Lanka president to visit Buddhist shrines in Nepal
Kathmandu: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is scheduled to visit his Nepal in March and pray at holy Buddhist shrines in the land where the Buddha was born.
Rajapaksa has accepted t....
- Is Pakistan's Swat deal a surrender to militants, asks Holbrooke
Washington: US special representative Richard Holbrooke has called Pakistan President Ali Zardari to express concern over a peace deal allowing imposition of Islamic law in the restive Swaat ....
- Now Bollywood voices to become 'Kathmandu' voices too
Kathmandu: While Bollywood's kung fu comedy "Chandni Chowk to China" was given the thumbs-down in Nepal, it has now embraced the voices of India's Hindi film industry as the voices of "Kathma....
- Sri Lanka ready to accept India's offer to evacuate civilians: Envoy
New Delhi: A day after New Delhi asked the Tamil Tigers to lay down arms, Sri Lanka on Thursday conveyed its willingness to accept India's assistance in evacuating civilians caught in the con....
- Sri Lankan Airlines chooses Kerala IT firm's software
Thiruvananthapuram: Sri Lankan Airlines, the national carrier of the island nation, has opted for the city-based IBS Group's software 'iFly Loyalty' for handling its frequent flier programme ....
- Menon begins Nepal talks amid discord
Kathmandu: Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon began his whirlwind assessment visit to Nepal today with a flurry of consultations, including a 90-minute meeting with Maoist Prime Ministe....
- Dhaka-Delhi talks on maritime boundary in March: Official
Dhaka: Bangladesh wants to get down to the nitty gritty of demarcating its maritime boundary, first with India in mid-March and shortly thereafter with Myanmar, an official said.
The tec....
- Bangladesh not to allow terror activity on its soil
New Delhi: Bangladesh has assured India that it will not allow even "an inch of its territory" to be used by an Indian insurgent group or any other terrorist outfit.
"We will not let a....
- India pledges 67 rail buses to Sri Lanka's east
Colombo: India has pledged to provide 67 sets of rail buses to link Batticaloa and Trincomalee towns with capital Colombo to promote development in Sri Lanka's east, a media report said today....
- Dhaka opposition wants parliamentary debate on India pacts
Dhaka: The opposition in Bangladesh wants to debate the pacts the Sheikh Hasina government signed with India last week.
Opposition leader and two-term former prime minister Khaleda Zia and....
- We missed two opportunities to invite Manmohan Singh: former Pakistan foreign minister
New Delhi: Expressing regret that Pakistan missed two opportunities to invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, fomer foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri said under no circumstances should the peac....
- Sri Lanka emerges alternative hub for aircraft maintenance
Colombo/New Delhi: A Sri Lankan aircraft maintenance firm has bagged the contract to conduct sophisticated checks on aircraft of Indian budget carrier IndiGo in what experts believe could tri....
- India not to share Nepal issues with China
Kathmandu: Before returning to New Delhi at the end of his two-day whirlwind visit to Nepal, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon Wednesday ruled out sharing Nepal issues with the Himal....
- Rajapaksa to meet Sri Lankan Tamil parties
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will soon meet Tamil political leaders to discuss a "democracy road map" for the areas seized from the Tamil Tigers.
The president reveale....
- Civil society groups call for Indian intervention in Sri Lankan crisis
New Delhi: Members of various civil society groups on Monday demanded that the Indian government pressurise Sri Lankan authorities to take steps to save lives of nearly 250,000 Tamil civilian....
- China moves to pre-empt fresh Tibetan stir
Kathmandu: Remembering the anti-China protests by Tibetans that erupted in Nepal in the summer of 2008, Beijing has begun diplomatic and political moves to pre-empt the resurrection of the st....
- Dhaka, Delhi set to renew water transit pact
Dhaka: Dhaka and New Delhi are set to renew the inland water transit and trade deal shortly and may add Ashuganj as the ninth port of call for easy transport of Indian goods from Kolkata to A....
- Holbrooke meets Karzai amid strained ties
Kabul: US President Barack Obama's envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan met Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday evening to discuss strategies in the fight against terrorism, amid heightened ....
- Sri Lankan delegation to visit Surajkund fair
New Delhi: Keen on having a fair in Sri Lanka on the lines of the Surajkund Craft Mela, a 11-member delegation from that country will Sunday visit Faridabad in Haryana to witness how the 23rd e....
- Four sailors die aboard South Korean ship off Indian coast
Kanyakumari (Tamil Nadu): Four foreign sailors on board a South Korean freighter off the Tamil Nadu coast died of food poisoning while two were admitted to a government hospital here on Fri....
- Mumbai-style Kabul attacks masterminded in Pakistan: Afghanistan
Kabul: The head of Afghanistan's intelligence department on Thursday said the Mumbai-style attacks on government offices in Kabul, killing 26 people, were master-minded by militants based in Pa....
- Pranab visit yielded win-win deals: Dhaka media
Dhaka: Large sections of Dhaka's media have reacted positively to the just-concluded visit of Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit, saying it yielded "win-win" deals for ....
- Indian envoy meets Prachanda
Kathmandu: Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood, met Prime Minister Prachnada at the latter's residence here this morning.
According to Prachanda's press advisor Om Sharma, they discuss....
- Sri Lankan MP seeks India's intervention to end conflict
Coimbatore: Sri Lankan MP Srikantha has demanded India's intervention to end the 25-year-long civil war in the island nation.
"India should take steps to stop war in Sri Lanka. And if the ....
- SAARC Commerce Secretaries meeting begins
New Delhi: The two-day meeting of the SAARC's Committee of Economic Cooperation (CEC) is being held here today.
The meeting is being attended by Commerce Secretaries of all the eight memb....
- Dhaka, Delhi sign trade, transit pacts
Dhaka: Bangladesh and India on Monday rejuvenated their political and economic ties, renewing a trade pact that envisages transit facility to India, and moved closer on their resolve to com....
- India asks Sri Lanka not to kill Tamil civilians
New Delhi: Underlining its concerns for the thousands of Tamils caught up in Sri Lanka's war, India on Sunday urged Colombo to make a distinction between the Tamil Tigers and civilians. Stress....
- India sends second warship to Gulf of Aden to fight pirates
New Delhi: The Indian Navy has sent warship INS Tabar to the Gulf of Aden to conduct anti-piracy operations, an official source said here on Sunday. The navy's guided missile frigate INS Be....
- LTTE's last Sea Tiger base captured: Sri Lanka
Colombo: Further tightening their stranglehold on the depleted Tamil Tigers, Sri Lankan troops on Thursday dealt yet another blow to the rebels by capturing their last Sea Tiger base at Cha....
- Don't put civilian lives in danger, India tells Sri Lanka
New Delhi: Voicing "deep concern" over the "difficult situation" in Sri Lanka, India on Thursday asked Colombo not to put the lives of thousands of civilians trapped in the war zone in danger....
- Rajapaksa vows to crush LTTE; US and Britain for 'temporary' truce
Colombo/Chennai: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday predicted a decisive victory over the Tamil Tigers "within a few days" as the US and Britain called for a temporary truc....
- Dhaka ready to sign transit pact with India
Dhaka: Five days ahead of Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit here, Bangladesh has said it is ready to provide transit facility to its neighbour's northeastern regio....
- Indian cleric leads world Islamic meet prayer
Dhaka: An Indian cleric led the final prayer at the 45th Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims that ended here on Sunday, seeking divine blessings for global peace and pro....
- Amid war, Tamil refugee flow to India drops
New Delhi: As Sri Lankan troops sweep through Tamil Tiger strongholds, Tamils seeking to flee the war-hit island to India are finding the boat journey more and more risky, leading to a sharp ....
- India lauds SL's safe passage offer to Tamil civilians
New Delhi: India on Thursday lauded the Sri Lankan government's announcement of granting a safe passage to Tamil civilians trapped in the war-hit northern parts of the island nation and hop....
- Rajapaksa asks LTTE to free civilians in 48 hours
Colombo: Amid growing concern over the safety of thousands of civilians trapped in Sri Lanka's northern war zone, President Mahinda Rajapaksa late on Thursday evening "urged" the Tamil Tige....
- Monks on mission, cycling across India for Tibet
New Delhi: Imbued with commitment to reversing the fate of the Tibetan community-in-exile, a group of nine young monks has set out cycling through India to raise awareness about Tibet.
The....
- Hundreds of dead civilians piling up in Sri Lanka war
New Delhi: Hundreds of Tamil civilians, including children, have been killed and wounded in Sri Lanka's war against the Tamil Tigers, international relief agencies say, with some calling it....
- Pranab in Colombo, concerned over Tamil plight
Colombo/New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Colombo Tuesday night, stressing that India would never sympathise with the Tamil Tigers but worried about Tamil civil....
- Rajapaksa invites Karunanidhi, Jayalalitha
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa told India's visiting External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee that he has invited Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and AIDMK leader J.....
- India urges Sri Lanka to expedite political solution
New Delhi/Colombo: India on Sunday said it has impressed upon Sri Lanka for an early peaceful political settlement in the island nation even as Colombo assured that it was keen to "move rapid....
- India's support to eliminate terrorism reaffirmed: Sri Lanka
Colombo: Reiterating its aim to find a political solution to the ethnic conflict and a military solution to extremism, Sri Lanka on Saturday said India has "reaffirmed" its support to eliminate....
- Sri Lanka woos Indian tourists
Ahmedabad: Sri Lanka is an ideal tourist destination for people from India as it offers an experience "Indians want", senior officials from the nation said here on Tuesday.
"I see India as....
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