Covid aid to India, financial help to Sri Lanka - Banglade...
May 29, 2021
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By: Nayanima Basu
File photo of Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina | Photo: David Greedy | Bloomberg News
From providing India with Covid relief materials to extending fi...
Bangladesh drops ‘except Israel’ from new passports, but n...
May 24, 2021
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By: Nayanima Basu
New Bangladesh passports will no longer preclude its validity in Israel in an effort to encourage visits to the West Asian country. However, Dhaka&rsq...
India, Pakistan foreign ministers likely to meet at ‘Heart...
March 20, 2021
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By: Nayanima Basu
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi are likely to hold a meeting on the sidelines of the &lsquo...
India, Indonesia to soon hold joint Air Force drill to boo...
January 12, 2021
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By: Nayanima Basu
India and Indonesia will soon hold a joint drill between their air forces as they seek to strengthen bilateral military ties amid the ongoing border t...
India-Russia summit cancelled amid Moscow’s unease with Qu...
December 24, 2020
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By: Nayanima Basu
For the first time in the last two decades, India and Russia have not held their annual summit. This comes after Moscow expressed severe reservations...
With eye on China, India and Japan discuss strengthening o...
October 8, 2020
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By: Nayanima Basu
A day after the Quad countries led by the US came down heavily on China, leaders of India and Japan Wednesday discussed the strengthening of security...
India yet to invite Australia to join Malabar naval exerci...
India is yet to formally invite Australia to the Malabar naval exercise, even as tensions between New Delhi and Beijing continue to soar. Talks are al...
China has been and will continue to be an important develo...
August 27, 2020
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By: Nayanima Basu
Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid Wednesday described China as an “important” development partner for Male, saying it always has be...
Mahinda Rajapaksa brings family rule to Sri Lanka. All eye...
August 16, 2020
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By: Nayanima Basu
Mahinda Rajapaksa | Pankaj Nangia/Bloomberg News
The results of Sri Lanka’s recently concluded parliamentary election were still trickl...
Pompeo cites Ladakh tensions, accuses China of playing ‘ro...
June 21, 2020
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By: Nayanima Basu
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused China of behaving as a “rogue actor” not just in its own neighbourhood, but also in the larg...
India, Nepal talks unlikely anytime soon as Kathmandu is s...
June 8, 2020
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By: Nayanima Basu
The foreign secretary-level talks between India and Nepal are not expected to happen anytime soon as Kathmandu is firm on fast-tracking the process of...
India won’t bring back Kashmiri students stuck in Banglade...
March 25, 2020
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By: Nayanima Basu
About 70 Kashmiri students stranded at Benapole on the India-Bangladesh border will not be brought back to India, ThePrint has learnt. The students st...
Modi govt’s trip for envoys to J&K exposes rift between ho...
January 14, 2020
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By: Nayanima Basu
The Narendra Modi government’s second trip for foreign envoys to Jammu and Kashmir also turned out to be a damp squib even as the situation in t...
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