Pallab Bhattacharya

India and Japan yesterday signed a $75 billion bilateral currency swap agreement that will help bring greater stability in foreign exchange and capital markets in the countries.

Fresh unrest is simmering in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam over Prime Minister Narendra Modi government's move to give citizenship to “persecuted” religious minorities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

India's Meghalaya state Chief Minister Conrad Sangma yesterday welcomed the decision to open the Chittagong port to facilitate trade with India's Northeastern states, saying it will cut transportation cost and expose their goods to international markets.

The recent elections to Bhutan's national assembly produced a victory for the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT), a left-of-the-centre party led by Dr Lotay Tshering.

India has decided to ease norms for allowing Bangladeshi tankers carrying bulk LPG to enter its territory and carry the same to Bishalgarh bottling plant in Tripura state.

When India deported seven Rohingyas back to Myanmar on October 4, it brought out certain fresh dimensions to New Delhi's stand on the issue with its legal, ideological and diplomatic ramifications.

The announcement of poll schedules for legislative assemblies in the five states of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Telangana has plunged India headlong into the season of polls, the biggest festival of democracy.

Diversification of options is the name of the diplomatic game. That is the message coming out after India and Russia inked the USD 5 billion agreement for the supply of the formidable S-400 air defence system during President Vladimir Putin's two-day visit to India and his annual summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Bangladesh and India decided during a meeting between their Commerce Ministers Tofail Ahmed and Suresh Prabhu in Dhaka recently to explore a bilateral Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) which is an important stage in the countries' burgeoning ties.

Bangladeshi exporters yesterday restarted supplying fish to the traders in Tripura following a 25-day hiatus over “alleged demands for

Is India's main opposition Congress party treading a path of soft Hindutva policy to counter the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the coming national elections? Is it the right path to counter another and the more hard-line brand of Hinduvta of its main rival BJP?

It was a drama-filled 24 hours involving India and Pakistan between the afternoon of September 20 and September 21.

Fish supply from Bangladesh to Tripura has been affected with traders from the neighbouring country stopping export to the north

Indian media yesterday came down heavily on ruling Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah for terming illegal immigrants from Bangladesh “termites” and “vermin” and said it “coarsens discourse and deepens divides” and risks “ruining relations” with the neighbour.

Soon after the signing of the Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA) with her American counterpart James Mattis in New Delhi on September 6, Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman termed the deal as elevating bilateral ties to “unprecedented heights.”

India's private low-cost airline SpiceJet yesterday said it would launch its dedicated air cargo services from September 18 to carry, among other items, perishable goods like farm fresh fruits and vegetables to international and domestic destinations.

India’s top counter-terror body National Investigation Agency (NIA) files a charge-sheet in a special court against five Bangladeshi nationals for aiding banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus yesterday told Bangladesh's State Minister for Health Zahid Maleque that he plans to visit Rohingya refugee camps in January next year and would extend support to make Bangladesh Drug Control Laboratory functional.

Border Guards Bangladesh yesterday said there was no large-scale migration of people into India as people of Bangladesh now "enjoy a very good quality of life" and the few who cross the border do so due to their old cultural and family ties.

As top leaders from five South Asian and two South East Asian countries gather in Kathmandu under the banner of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Initiative for Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) on August 30 and 31 for their fourth summit, it faces certain fundamental challenges. Set up in 1997 in Thailand with 14 priority sectors of cooperation...