Category : Bangladesh

DHAKA: Bangladesh is visibly and invisibly leaning towards the superpowers, including the United States, China and Russia. But it also has friends and allies in the Middle East. India has been a proven friend, which has partnered Bangladesh’s development. Bangladesh is now inching closer to embracing the Indo-Pacific strategy, despite the country’s professed non-aligned foreign […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh has a strong message for China—loans from Beijing cannot be used to arm twist the South Asian nation. China’s lending pattern has come under major scrutiny globally amid the economic turmoil pushing several countries into debt traps. Dhaka has asked China to relax several conditions that have […]Read More

DHAKA: Both Bangladesh and India are embarrassed over the immense delay towards a sustainable solution to sharing of the trans-boundary Teesta river, which remains a bone of contention between the two closest neighbours. This week Bangladesh raised fresh concern with New Delhi, after an Indian newspaper, The Telegraph, reported that West Bengal government has plans […]Read More

NEW DELHI: The recent instance of violence between the police and a group of people protesting against an Ahmadiyya community event that left 2 dead and at least 50 others, including policemen, injured, is only the latest in the slew of extremist violence targeting minorities in Bangladesh in the last decade. Throughout 2014-15, members of […]Read More