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PM Modi’s letter to Muhammad Yunus: What did it say?

Amid growing tensions with Bangladesh, PM Modi has penned a letter to Mohammad Yunus. Watch to know what the letter contains.

Adani restores power supply to Bangladesh as regular payments resume

Adani Power Ltd had halved electricity supply to Bangladesh from its 1,600 megawatt coal-fired plant in Jharkhand in November following a series of missed payments by Dhaka

PM Modi highlights 'spirit of 1971 war' in letter to Bangladesh's Yunus

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pens letter to Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, speaks about shared history, bilateral ties, and Liberation War of 1971

India unlikely to extradite former PM Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh

New Delhi doesn't want to send 'wrong message' to the world that it doesn't 'stand by friends'

Bangladesh coup? Muhammad Yunus calls it just a 'festival of rumours'

Muhammad Yunus urged citizens to remain vigilant, warning that as the yet-to-be-announced election approaches, misinformation campaigns would intensify

Who pays Members of Parliament more: India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh?

With significant parliamentary changes occurring, how do these neighbouring countries compare in their compensations to their lawmakers

B'desh request for Yunus-Modi meeting under consideration: House panel told

Bangladesh's request for a meeting between its interim government's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the upcoming BIMSTEC Summit is under consideration, External Affairs minister S Jaishankar is learnt to have told a Parliamentary panel meeting here. At this year's first meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for External Affairs on Saturday, several MPs raised concerns on attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, asking what steps was India taking in this regard, sources said. They said Jaishankar informed the members that the interim government in Dhaka has claimed that the attacks on Hindus were "politically motivated" and not "minority targeted". Jaishankar briefed the MPs on ties with Bangladesh, the Maldives, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. He said he would speak about Pakistan and China separately at a later date. Jaishankar was also learnt to have told the meeting that SAARC was inactive because of Pakistan's approach and thus India is trying to .

RSS condemns 'govt support' for violence against Hindus in Bangladesh

The resolution passed during the three-day annual meeting noted that the persistent anti-India rhetoric in Bangladesh can severely damage the relationship between the two countries

Bangladesh's Information Adviser urges all to prepare for polls by December

Bangladesh's Information Adviser Mahfuj Alam on Friday said the elections will be held in December as scheduled and urged all parties to prepare for it, according to a media report. Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus said that the election will be held on time. It is scheduled for the end of this year, in December. A timeline has already been set, and the election will take place within that timeframe. Everyone should start preparing for it, Mahfuj said. Mahfuj hoped that the election would be held in right time if the political parties act responsibly, stop sabotage and the state organs properly cooperate, The Daily Star newspaper reported. Yunus recently said the government would hold elections in December if the political parties agreed to fewer reforms, adding that it may be postponed by a few months if political parties wanted a bigger number of reforms.

Delhi Police bust racket aiding illegal settlement of Bangladeshis

The Delhi Police has busted a syndicate involved in facilitating the illegal entry and settlement of Bangladeshi nationals in the national capital, an official said on Friday. Three Bangladeshi immigrants along with their Indian facilitator have been arrested, exposing an organised network that exploited forged documents to evade detection, the Delhi Police said in a statement. The arrested people include the kingpin, Md Iqbal Hossain, who operated as Farhan Khan in India. He was apprehended from the Nehru Place area, the statement said. "Investigations revealed that he possessed both a Bangladeshi passport and an illegally acquired Indian passport. Despite already being married in Bangladesh, he fraudulently married an Indian woman from Madhya Pradesh by posing as an Indian citizen through a matrimonial website," Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) (Crime) Aditya Gautam in the statement said. Two other Bangladeshi nationals identified as Razeeb Miyan and Md Momin Badsha were also

Bangladesh won't ban Awami League, leaders may face trial: Muhammad Yunus

Reaffirming the administration's commitment to holding elections as planned, Yunus said the vote would not be delayed for any demands

'Condemn any instance of violence against minorities...': US on Bangladesh

The United States on Wednesday has condemned any instance of violence against minority communities in Bangladesh, backing the measures taken by the interim government to ensure safety.

B'desh approaches India for PM Modi-Yunus talks at Bimstec Bangkok Summit

Earlier in February, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held a meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Advisor Hossain on the sidelines of Indian Ocean Conference in Oman

US responds amid row over Tulsi Gabbard's 'Caliphate' remark on Bangladesh

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had said that minority violence in Bangladesh stems from an ideology aiming to establish Islamist rule and a Caliphate

Dhaka court orders to freeze 31 bank accounts related to Hasina, her family

A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered the freezing of 31 bank accounts linked to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her family members and their associates over corruption allegations against them, according to media reports. According to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), these bank accounts belonging to Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, daughter Saima Wazed Putul, sister Sheikh Rehana, nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby and their related organisations hold a total of Tk 394.6 crore (INR 281.2 crore approximately), reports Prothom Alo. The organisations whose bank accounts have been ordered frozen include Bangladesh Awami League and Jatir Janak Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Trust, according to The Daily Star newspaper. Judge Md Zakir Hossain passed the order after ACC Deputy Director Md Monirul Islam, who is leading the inquiry team, submitted an application in this regard. In the application, the ACC said Hasina and others are trying to transfer the money from these accounts. S

Bangladesh slams Tulsi Gabbard's remarks on persecution of minorities

The interim government of Professor Muhammad Yunus refuted US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard's remarks on the alleged persecution of minority communities in Bangladesh saying her comments were not based on any evidence or specific allegations. "They (Gabbard's comments) paint an entire nation with a broad and unjustified brush," the chief adviser's office said on a verified Facebook post at around midnight Monday. It said Gabbard's statement in an Indian TV channel was "misleading and damaging to the image and reputation of Bangladesh, a nation whose traditional practice of Islam has been famously inclusive and peaceful and that has made remarkable strides in its fight against extremism and terrorism". The US spy chief, now in India, earlier on Monday said the longtime unfortunate persecution, killing, and abuse of religious minorities like Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, and others has been a major area of concern for the US government and President Trump and his ...

Bangladesh's Chief Advisor Yunus to visit China, meet President Xi Jinping

Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus is set to visit China later this month during which he will meet President Xi Jinping, the interim government said on Sunday, in a move expected to bolster Dhaka-Beijing ties. Yunus is set to visit China on March 26 and meet Xi on March 28, the Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam told reporters here, hoping his visit will take Bangladesh-China relations to a new height, the Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported. Issues related to bilateral interest will be discussed in the meeting between Yunus and Xi, Alam said. Dhaka wants to take its relations with Beijing to a new height aiming to turn Bangladesh into a manufacturing hub, he said. "They (China) think that this would be the most important visit by the Bangladeshi leader," Alam added. "On March 27, Yunus will address the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) conference focusing on the changing role of Asia in the world," he said. BFA is an initiative of 25 Asian countries and Australia to disc

UN chief Guterres pays visit to Bangladesh, highlights plight of Rohingyas

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called upon the international community to provide necessary financial and political support for Rohingya refugees and their host communities to avoid humanitarian disasters in Bangladesh, state-run BSS news agency said. Guterres, who is on a four-day visit from March 13 to Bangladesh, was addressing a joint press briefing in Dhaka, a day after he travelled to Cox's Bazaar on a mission of solidarity with the Rohingya refugees. The plight of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar remains uncertain over possible aid cuts in near future. After his visit to Cox's Bazar in southeastern Bangladesh to see the plight of Rohingyas in the crammed makeshift camps after being evicted from their homeland in Myanmar's Rakhine state, Guterres described humanitarian aid cuts by the United States and countries in Europe to Bangladesh, where thousands of Rohingya refugees are located, as a crime. On Saturday. He reiterated his

26,250 tonnes of rice from Pakistan arrives at Bangladesh port

MV Mariam arrived at the outer anchorage of Chittagong port on March 11 while it berthed at a port jetty on Friday

UN chief, Bangladesh's Yunus discuss domestic issues, Rohingya crisis

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has discussed with Bangladesh's Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus the country's domestic issues and the Rohingya situation and expressed solidarity with Dhaka's reform and transition process. Guterres is in Bangladesh on a Ramadan Solidarity visit from March 13-16. Guterres travelled to Cox's Bazaar on a mission of solidarity with the Rohingya refugees and with the Bangladeshi people who have hosted them. He expressed appreciation for the close cooperation between the UN and Bangladesh, including its contributions to peacekeeping. The Secretary-General and the Chief Adviser discussed the situation of the Rohingya and Bangladesh's domestic issues. The Secretary-General expressed his solidarity with Bangladesh's reform and transition process, a readout of the meeting between Guterres and Yunus provided by the office of the Secretary-General's spokesperson said on Friday. The Secretary-General is back in Dhaka after having spent the day in Cox's Bazaa