List of Bangladesh-India deals

Bangladesh inks a total of 22 agreements and Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with India during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s state visit to the neighbouring country.
8 April 2017, 14:55 PM

Pakistani police say 10 militants killed in gun battle in Lahore

Pakistani police says 10 militants from Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, die in a gun battle in the eastern city of Lahore, including a key suspect behind a February blast that killed 13 people.
8 April 2017, 13:04 PM

$500m Indian credit for Bangladesh’s defence

India pledges to extend a $500 million credit to Bangladesh for its defence related procurement.
8 April 2017, 12:03 PM

Bangladesh-India to jointly produce biopic on Bangabandhu

Bangladesh and India agree to produce a film based on the life and works of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
8 April 2017, 11:37 AM

Modi assures of early Teesta solution

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assures of an early breakthrough of the Teesta river’s water sharing issue. Modi makes the announcement at a joint press conference with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi.
8 April 2017, 10:36 AM

Meeting with Modi ‘productive’: Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina describes the meeting with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to be "productive" as they sat together to take Bangladesh-India excellent bilateral relations to newer height.
8 April 2017, 10:20 AM

Myanmar ferry capsizes; 20 dead, over a dozen missing

A ferry boat capsizes in Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy delta, killing 20 people and leaving more than a dozen missing, police say.
8 April 2017, 06:28 AM

PM visit to India: Modi pledges $4.5b for Bangladesh projects

India has declared to provide assistance of US$ 4.5 billion for implementation of top priority projects in Bangladesh. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the announcement at a joint press conference with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi.
8 April 2017, 04:30 AM

Diesel import from India starts tomorrow

Bangladesh and India will formally launch commercial supply of High Speed Diesel (HSD) tomorrow with an inaugural consignment of 2200 metric tonnes of the fuel to Bangladesh.
7 April 2017, 06:41 AM

PM says she will pitch for Teesta

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in an article published in a leading Indian newspaper expresses the hope that her visit to India would take the cooperative relations between Bangladesh and India to a “new height” and pitches for signing of the Teesta river water-sharing deal.
7 April 2017, 05:15 AM

'Mowgli girl' found living with monkeys in India

Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children to try to identify a girl who was found living in a forest with a group of monkeys.
7 April 2017, 05:06 AM

New Delhi's Park Street named after Bangabandhu

A prominent street in the heart of the Indian capital is named after Bangladesh's founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
6 April 2017, 15:42 PM

BGB, Myanmar cops agree to remove mines from border

Bangladesh and Myanmar will jointly work to remove land mines from their respective border areas. Both the countries agreed to take necessary steps in this regard in a bid to establish good border management, said a press release jointly issued jointly by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Myanmar Police Force (MPF).
6 April 2017, 05:49 AM

Suu Kyi denies ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says ethnic cleansing is too strong a term to describe what is happening in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region.
6 April 2017, 04:24 AM

Slaughterhouse ban: Allahabad High Court says choice of food is right to life

Choice of food and trade in foodstuff are part of right to life, the Allahabad High Court says, giving the UP government 10 days to draw up a plan so that its crackdown on illegal abattoirs and meat shops don't deprive people of their livelihood or food.
5 April 2017, 12:33 PM

Blast in Lahore kills at least 6

A suicide bomber kills at least six people and wounds 18 when he blows himself up near an army vehicle taking part in a census in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore.
5 April 2017, 06:08 AM

Indian cobbler gets income tax notice for 'Rs 10 lakh bank deposit during noteban

A cobbler in Indian town of Junagadh receives a notice from the Income Tax Department asking him to divulge the source of Rs 10 lakh deposited in his account during the demonetisation period.
4 April 2017, 05:40 AM

Sachin Tendulkar makes his singing debut with Sonu Nigam

India's legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar has made singing debut with singer Sonu Nigam and unveiled his maiden song, Cricket Wali Beat, on the sets of Indian Idol Grand Finale.
3 April 2017, 10:43 AM

Death of model Raudha: Maldivian cops in Rajshahi

A two-member police team from Maldives reaches Rajshahi from Dhaka to talk with the investigators dealing with a case filed over the death of Maldivian medical student and model Raudha Athif.
3 April 2017, 08:53 AM

Pakistan shrine custodian ‘kills’ 20

The custodian of a shrine in Sargodha allegedly killed at least 20 people and injured three others, police say.
2 April 2017, 07:10 AM