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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
BGB BSF border talks

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
ISS

"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
Green power

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
India's national elections

State polls may set the scene for India's national elections

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.
11 October 2018, 18:00 PM
From Russia with love

From Russia with love

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.
7 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Indo-Bangla bilateral meeting

CEPA: A game-changer for Indo-Bangla ties?

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.
2 October 2018, 18:00 PM

Fish export to Tripura resumes

Bangladeshi exporters yesterday restarted supplying fish to the traders in Tripura following a 25-day hiatus over “alleged demands for
29 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Rahul Gandhi

Anatomy of “soft Hindutva” of Congress party

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?
28 September 2018, 18:00 PM
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Drama over Indo-Pak meeting

It was a drama-filled 24 hours involving India and Pakistan between the afternoon of September 20 and September 21.
26 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Bangladeshi traders stop fish export to Tripura

Fish supply from Bangladesh to Tripura has been affected with traders from the neighbouring country stopping export to the north
26 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Indian media slams Amit Shah

'Termite' Remarks: Indian media blasts BJP president

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.
25 September 2018, 18:00 PM
US-India relations

US-India relations reach 'unprecedented heights'

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.”
11 September 2018, 18:00 PM

India's SpiceJet to launch air cargo services

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.
10 September 2018, 18:00 PM
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'Aiding Terror Group': 5 'Bangladeshis' charged in India

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).
8 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh to get nomination for WHO executive board

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.
7 September 2018, 18:00 PM

No large-scale migration into India taking place: BGB chief

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.
7 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Bimstec

Bimstec at a crossroads

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...
29 August 2018, 18:00 PM
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Vajpayee's enduring legacy

If PV Narasimha Rao was the initiator of the process of India's globalisation diplomatically and economically, it was Atal Bihari Vajpayee who cemented that process irrevocably.
19 August 2018, 18:00 PM
Foot ball

Chhetri wants to play

Indian football team captain Sunil Chhetri wants to play a part in next month's SAFF Cup tournament to be held in Bangladesh.
17 August 2018, 18:00 PM
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The political standoff over a controversial citizens' list

The standoff over a controversial list of Indian citizens in Assam is escalating into a full-blown political crisis by the day and has become a national issue.
4 August 2018, 18:00 PM

No duty-free edible oil from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka

India allowing duty-free import of edible oil from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka under South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta) framework has raised the hackles of the domestic industry.
2 August 2018, 18:00 PM
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Assam register: politics, citizenship and beyond

The draft final list of citizens in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam is out. But the controversy over the fraught exercise continues. A little over four million people—mostly Bengali Muslims and some Hindus—have gone missing from the list, leaving them staring at an uncertain future and all sorts of anxiety.
31 July 2018, 18:00 PM
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Imran Khan faces tough pitch on India-Pakistan ties

In his very first media interaction after the election in Pakistan, flamboyant former cricketer Imran Khan, who appears well-positioned to become the country's newest prime minister,
28 July 2018, 18:00 PM

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