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Pallab Bhattacharya

Pallab Bhattacharya is a special correspondent for The Daily Star.

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India, Pakistan hockey players shake hands at Malaysia meet

The gesture by the junior hockey players of the two teams came after the men's and women's cricket teams of India and Pakistan opted for “no-handshake” policy during their respective matches in the Asia Cup in the UAE and a World Cup game in Colombo.
15 October 2025, 05:38 AM
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India to launch EFTA trade pact on Oct 1

In the midst of a tariff battle with the United States, India will formally operationalise its free trade agreement (FTA) with four countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) bloc on October 1.
29 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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Anuparna Roy’s breakthrough at Venice Film Festival

For Anuparna Roy, in her thirties, the excitement of winning an award with her very first feature film at the world’s oldest film festival in Venice is yet to sink in. The Indian media took no notice of Roy, an English literature student from Burdwan University in West Bengal, when she released her first short film “Run To The River” a couple of years ago. But today, that moment seems light years away.
10 September 2025, 13:11 PM
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Bhupen Hazarika centenary sets sail on Brahmaputra with musical river voyage

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a tribute this morning, called Hazarika’s music timeless, noting how his compositions “transcended borders and linguistic barriers for decades.” That universality is embodied in “Bistirna Parore” (popularly known in Bangla as “Bistirno Dupaare”), the song after which the voyage is named.
8 September 2025, 10:20 AM
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BGB-BSF conference: Push-ins, border killings to figure high

The continuous push-ins by Indian authorities from different border points despite repeated protests by Bangladesh will top the agenda of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in the upcoming 56th director general-level conference.
23 August 2025, 18:44 PM
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"Even simple tasks are hard": India's first ISS astronaut on space life

Indian Air Force officer Shubhanshu Shukla, the country’s first astronaut to enter the International Space Station (ISS), has shared his first-hand experience that even simple tasks like sleeping, walking, and drinking water become very challenging in microgravity conditions.
30 June 2025, 08:36 AM
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India to conduct 7 experiments in space

Indian Air Force Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla scripted history by becoming the country’s first astronaut to enter the International Space Station (ISS) on June 26 after the docking of Axiom 4 spacecraft, he carried with him India’s scientific dreams to the frontiers of microgravity.
27 June 2025, 11:07 AM
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India develops solar-powered green hydrogen production

Indian scientists have developed a scalable device that produces green hydrogen, one of the cleanest fuels, by splitting water molecules using only solar energy.
23 June 2025, 07:05 AM
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Sunset for Assam NRC, Sunrise Over Pan-India NRC

The controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam appears to have been discarded for all practical purposes.
26 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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Tanvir Mokammel’s ‘Jibondhuli’ and ‘Bastra Baalika’ to be screened in Japan

Tanvir Mokammel’s feature film, Jibondhuli (The Drummer), and his documentary film, Bastra Baalika (The Garment Girls of Bangladesh), will be screened at an event in Tokyo, Japan, in January 2020.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ poster unveiled

Indian superstar Amir Khan will be playing a Sikh in his fifties in Laal Singh Chaddha. In the first poster of the film, the actor is dressed in a checkered shirt and a pink turban. He sits inside a train compartment, as a flickering smile peeps through his lush beard and moustache.
18 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Hyderabad release Shakib

Ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan, who was suspended by the ICC for not reporting corrupt approaches from a bookie, has been released by Sunrisers Hyderabad ahead of next month’s players’ auction for the Indian Premier League.
15 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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Lata Mangeshkar stable, but still in hospital

Living legend Lata Mangeshkar was recently admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, due to breathing problems.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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Two Italian films at IFFI 2019

Two critically-acclaimed Italian films, Despite the Fog and Marghe and her Mother, will be screened at the 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), which begins in Goa on November 20.
11 November 2019, 18:00 PM

IPL players’ auction shifts to Kolkata

The players’ auction for the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be held in Kolkata for the first time on December 19. The decision was made at the tournament’s Governing Council meeting held yesterday.
5 November 2019, 18:00 PM
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Rohit leaves nets after blow to thigh

India’s T20I skipper Rohit Sharma was hit on his left thigh while batting in the nets at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi yesterday, forcing him to leave the net session ahead of Sunday’s first T20I against Bangladesh.
1 November 2019, 18:00 PM

BCCI orders 72 pink balls

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has ordered 72 SG pink balls to be delivered by next week for use in the first-ever day/night Test between Bangladesh and India at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata from November 22.
30 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Ganguly to push for D/N Tests

Newly elected Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly said last night that skipper Virat Kohli was open to the idea of playing day-night Tests and it could be a reality in the near future.
25 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Tripura to set up two new border haats

Two new border haats along the India-Bangladesh border will be established in Tripura, Biplab Kumar Deb, chief minister of the Indian state, said yesterday.
24 October 2019, 18:00 PM

India to try to lift onion export ban

India has assured Bangladesh that it would try to lift the ban on the export of onions after the Maharashtra assembly elections, which took place on October 21.
24 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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Ganguly invites Hasina, Modi to Eden

President elect for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Sourav Ganguly, has invited Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to watch the second of a two-match Test series between the two countries, to be held at Eden Gardens in Kolkata from November 22 to 26.
17 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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Shooting for ‘Rupsha Nodir Baankey’ wraps up

The shooting for acclaimed director Tanvir Mokammel’s forthcoming feature film, Rupsha Nodir Baankey, wrapped up recently, with sequences shot in the Dhaka Central Jail.
2 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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NRC: The way ahead for India and Bangladesh

As Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi meet in New Delhi on October 5 for their second inter-face in about a week, the issue of National Register of Citizens is, by most accounts, expected to figure in their discussions.
2 October 2019, 18:00 PM
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Sonia Gandhi’s deja vu moment

It could be a déjà vu moment for Sonia Gandhi. Just a couple of months after returning to helm of the Congress, at a time of its existential crisis following the drubbing in April-May national elections, she faces a crucial test of her leadership in the October 21 assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana against a surging Bharatiya Janata Party.
28 September 2019, 18:00 PM

Onion price still high in India

Retail prices of onion in Delhi and other parts of India continued to remain high yesterday despite government measures, including boosting supplies.
25 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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India-Russia bonhomie in a changing world

When it comes to treading previously unexplored or seldom traversed areas of domestic and foreign policies, one can safely bet on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At home, he had undertaken demonetisation in a shock move in November, 2016 and in August
17 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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Politics, verbal duel hot up again over NRC

The fortnight after the August 31 publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam has seen politics over the issue hotting up in neighbouring West Bengal, and the war of words between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Mamata Banerjee-led
16 September 2019, 18:00 PM
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Assam NRC puts BJP in quandary

The final National Register of Citizens (NRC), which left out around 19.6 lakh people in Assam, puts India’s and the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a quandary.
1 September 2019, 12:24 PM

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