Aug 19, 2014
Continuing with its proactive engagement with immediate neighbours, the new Indian government is preparing to meet up some of them later this month to catalyse subregional cooperation and build “productive partnerships” in areas such as energy and...
Aug 19, 2014
Tariq Karim has been Bangladesh’s envoy to India for the past five years, as a political appointee, and has steered the important agreement drafts of the Land Border Agreement and Teesta River water arrangement. Returning from Dhaka, where he had been a part of the...
Jul 22, 2014
New Delhi: Bangladesh has raised the issue of two pending pacts with India, the Teesta waters agreement and the Land Boundary Agreement with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and hopes he will be able to deliver on them. In an interview to this newspaper on Tuesday, the...
Jul 19, 2014
India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (Tuesday) said that his government would actively consider signing Teesta water-sharing deal and land boundary agreement with Bangladesh.His assurance came at a meeting with Bangladesh Speaker Shirin Sharmin...
Jul 19, 2014
Bangladesh needs Teesta River water and it is India’s duty to ensure a fair share of it, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. ‘It’s the Indian government’s responsibility. This is not my headache, but theirs. Talks will continue. I need that...
Jul 19, 2014
WITH the assumption of office as the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi has put India’s relations with its immediate neighbours as his foreign policy focus area. To take this policy forward on the 22nd of June the External Affairs Minister chaired a meeting...
