1971 War heroes visit Bangladesh New Delhi: 14 Chaitra 1929 03 Apr 2008 10 War Veteran of 1971 Indo-Pak War visited Bangladesh recently to cherish their 1971 War memories. Consequent to a very highly ..Read More
Bangladesh's Army Chief, General Moeen U. Ahmed, has arrived in New Delhi on a week-long visit to India to revive bilateral defence and political ties and boost security co-operation between the ..Read More
After canceling his visit to India following the promulgation of Emergency in Bangladesh on January 11, 2007, Army Chief General Moeen U. Ahmed is all set to arrive in India on February 24 on an offic..Read More
Pakistan-based terror outfits have formed a strong nexus with militants in Bangladesh and are taking advantage of the porous border to carry out attacks in India, according to the paramilitary Border ..Read More
India and Bangladesh Foreign Secretary level talks ended here today with both sides agreeing to work together to fight against terrorism and insurgents in the common interest of peace and security.New..Read More
Border Security Force (BSF) Director General A K Mitra on Tuesday said that the army-backed interim government of Bangladesh has taken some action against the rebel groups of the northeast sheltering ..Read More
To ensure better coordination between India and Bangladesh, Border Security Force(BSF) and Bangladesh Rifles(BDR) jointly carried out patrolling along the international border in Tripura this morning...Read More
Democracy may have taken a hit in Bangladesh, but India is willing to do business with the neighbouring country, with the Chief of Army of the two countries likely to meet for a crucial deliberation h..Read More
Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence is working with Bangladesh's intelligence agencies to facilitate cooperation between north-east militant groups like United Liberation Front of Asom and..Read More
Indian insurgent groups, especially the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), are said to be on the defensive as the caretaker government in Bangladesh is adopting a tough stance with regard to terr..Read More
Indian and Bangladeshi guards traded gunfire along the border in the northeastern state of Tripura after two Bangladeshi nationals were killed by Indian troopers when they were attempting to cross the..Read More
Ahead of the Republic Day celebrations, the Delhi Police have arrested two militants in the national Capital with explosives, a senior police officer said on Thursday.The two, identified as Mohammad A..Read More
Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed ordered on Saturday the deployment of the army across the country to strengthen law and order and 'ensure peaceful elections' next month. The home (interi..Read More
The Government has initiated several measures to prevent smuggling of arms, ammunition and explosives from across the borders.These include fencing of eastern and western borders, deployment of border..Read More
India regards Bangladesh as a sanctuary for militants operating against it and Dhaka is not cooperating with New Delhi on cracking down on them as it should be, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan..Read More
Sophisticated surveillance and tracking gadgets like thermal imagers and underground sensors have been installed along the porous Indo-Bangladesh border to prevent infiltration by Pakistan-backed terr..Read More
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel opened fire across the Indo-Bangla border at Saidpur in Assam's Cachar district after Border Security Force (BSF) pushed back a group of Bangladeshis, official s..Read More
India has asked Bangladesh to deport over 113 terrorists, including ULFA chairman Arbind Rajkhowa and general secretary Anup Chetia, currently present in that country and to dismantle 172 camps run by..Read More
India and Bangladesh agreed to develope mechanisms for joint fight against terrorism and organised crime as also to exercise "utmost restraint" along the border after four days of Home Secretary- leve..Read More
The Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, Shri E. Ahamed informed the Rajya Sabha today that there are reportedly 52 terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir..Read More
Taking a serious note of "unprovoked" firing and shelling of some areas of Assam by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), India today lodged its protest by summoning Dhaka's envoy here. The Ministry of Extern..Read More
India's capital and its other major cities have been placed on an unprecedented security alert amid threats of terror attacks ahead of the country's Independence Day celebrations, officials ..Read More
Indian and Bangladeshi border guards on Sunday agreed to withdraw additional troops from the trouble-torn Harinagar-Amalsid frontier in northeastern Bangladesh from Monday exchanging heavy mortar and ..Read More
Director General of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Major General Shakil Ahmed yesterday visited the troubled Jokiganj frontier in the country's northeastern Sylhet amidst a tense situation as BSF and BD..Read More
The Border Security Force (BSF) was maintaining strict vigil in Assam's Cachar and Karimganj districts bordering Bangladesh after Wednesday's mortar attack by Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) that ki..Read More
Bangladesh is deploying more troops and building bunkers along its frontier with India, a senior Indian official said today, after thursday's border skirmish in which two Indians civilians and se..Read More
Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) soldiers started unprovoked firing across the Indo-Bangladesh border in lower Assam killing atleast 2 women. BDR targetted villagers in Tukaram and Bhanga.India's Border S..Read More
Suspected ULFA terrorists tossed grenades at an army convoy in the Indian north eastern state of Assam, killing a soldier and wounding two others, police said Saturday.The attack came even as security..Read More
Security forces all over the country face the herculean task of preventing Pakistan backed terrorist modules from carrying out Independence Day, Pre-Independence Day terror attacks.India, which celebr..Read More
While the United States dithers, a growing Islamic fundamentalist movement linked to Al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence agencies are steadily converting strategically located Bangladesh into a new re..Read More
A bomb exploded in a village market in northwestern Bangladesh, injuring at least 15 people.Police investigators cordoned off the blast site in Atrai in Naogaon district, 195 km northwest of Dhaka, th..Read More
In a sudden and outrageous move, Bangladeshis, backed by their country's Army, have uprooted pillars demarcating the Indo-Bangla border along Dhubri and Karimganj districts of Assam, and forcibly..Read More
Kolkata: The Bangladesh Rifles on Thursday fired on the Border Security Force personnel after they foiled an attempt by a group of Bangladeshis to kidnap an Indian border guard along the fronti..Read More
Mymensingh: A team of Bangladeshi border guards recovered bombs, mortar shells and about 37,000 bullets after raiding a house on Friday along the Indian border, an official said.
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New Delhi: India on Wednesday condemned the Bangladesh Rifles for the killing of a Border Security Force constable on Monday in unprovoked firing. India called for 'restraint and professio..Read More
Guwahati: Cadres of the outlawed ULFA, behind a wave of bomb attacks that have killed at least eight persons and injured over 50 in the last six days, acquired training in explosives in Pakista..Read More
Bangladesh is negotiating with China and South Korea to develop its military and civilian facilities at the Chittagong port as part of moves to strengthen its navy for high sea patrolling and protecti..Read More
Kolkata: Indian and Bangladeshi troops exchanged heavy fire, officials said on Saturday, but the two sides told different accounts of the clash across the 4,000-km (2,500-mile) border that divi..Read More
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government categorically denied Monday a report that it had received two old submarines from the Pakistan Navy as gifts, an official spokesman said. The spokesman, quoting..Read More
Kadamtala, West Bengal: The Border Security Force, having a strength of over two lakh personnel, is facing a shortage of manpower and 20 more battalions need to be raised, its Director General ..Read More
Bangladesh has threatened to scrap all gas supply agreements with India if it takes its gas pipeline from Myanmar via Mizoram, but the government is going ahead.Bangladesh which has been unable to ove..Read More
Kolkotta: Heavy exchange of fire between Indian and Bangladeshi border guards was Wednesday reported from Mekhligunge area along the international border in West Bengal.
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Ahmedabad: Leader of Opposition in Parliament and senior BJP leader L K Advani today charged Bangladesh with not only being a source for illegal migration and infiltration but also "harbouring..Read More
Varanasi: Police in India say they have arrested the mastermind behind last month's bomb attacks in the holy city of Varanasi.Vali Ullah, a resident of northern Uttar Pradesh state, ran a ..Read More
Kolkotta: The frequent incidents of unprovoked firing by the Bangladesh Rifles on Indian villagers would be raised at the BSF-BDR director general-level meeting at Dhaka late next month. '..Read More
Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia made her first ever visit to India in her current term of office from March 20, 2006 to March 22, 2006. Her 48-member official entourage included Finance Mi..Read More
New Delhi: Developments in Bangladesh were a "cause of concern" during the year, the Defence Ministry has said asking Dhaka to seriously address Indian concerns on illegal migration and activit..Read More
New Delhi: Edgy neighbors India and Bangladesh agreed on Tuesday to wage a joint battle against terrorism and correct a trade imbalance, during a Delhi visit by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Begum..Read More
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, leader of India's crucial neighbour Bangladesh, has arrived in New Delhi when both sides have a long list of concerns and a substantial deficit of trust. That things b..Read More
New Delhi: Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is on an India visit and one of the main issues that New Delhi may bring up is the harbouring of insurgents from the north-east.For India, the c..Read More
New Delhi: India will raise the issue of insurgency and other cross border illegal activities with Bangladesh during the visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia beginning today.Beg..Read More
New Delhi: There are reports to indicate that Pakistan has been attempting to infiltrate its agents for subversive activity and espionage through the porous Indo-Bangladesh and Indo-Nepal Borde..Read More
New Delhi: Two Bangladeshi terroists belonging to Harkat-ul-Jehadi have been arrested along wth arms, ammunition and explosives from Shastri Park area by the police. They were caught by sleuths..Read More
Dhaka: The head of a Bangladeshi Islamist group blamed for a wave of bomb attacks has been arrested in a neighbouring Indian state, newspapers said on Monday.Shayek Abdur Rahman, supreme leader..Read More
Dhaka: Bangladeshi police and opposition Awami League supporters today fought a pitched battle around the Awami League (AL) central office here, ahead of tomorrow's opposition-sponsored co..Read More
New Delhi: Indian establishments in Dhaka are receiving threat calls from terror organizations. A fortnight back the Assistant High Commissioner's office in Rajshahi received a threat and ..Read More
Report of IPCS Panel Discussion held at the IPCS Conference Room on 6 January 2006 (Panelists: Matt Rosenstein, Bibhu Prasad Routray & Supriya Singh)
Chair: Amb Deb Mukherjee
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Some religious schools double up as shelter places for terrorists in Bangladesh, which has been a traditional transit route to Pakistan for them since 1995, reveals one of the conspirators of IC-814 h..Read More
New Delhi: Stressing that India did not harbour any "territorial ambitions", Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee today dwelt upon the need to live in peace with neighbours and said the Centre was..Read More
New Delhi: The Union government following recommendations of the Parliamentary Affairs Ministry, has instructed Border Security Force to establish five new battalions to boost its ongoing anti-..Read More
Dhaka: Visiting Indian Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash today called on Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed at the Bangabhaban here. Admiral Prakash praised the professional skills of the Bangla..Read More
Democracy provides space for dissent; in Bangladesh, terrorists and fundamentalists are increasingly occupying this space. Ever since the first suicide attack on 29 November 2005 in Ghazipur and Chitt..Read More
Kolkata: India is deploying thousands of new troops on its frontier with Bangladesh and setting up hundreds of more border posts to check illegal migration and movement of armed militants, a to..Read More
Dhaka: Hundreds of police patrolled the streets of Dhaka on Friday to prevent possible attacks by Islamist militants, as Bangladesh marked the 34th anniversary of victory in the war of independ..Read More
Bangladesh is considering a military agreement with China to jointly patrol its coastal areas and deep-sea territorial waters. Bangladesh PM Khalida Zia who visited China in August had given approval ..Read More
Dhaka: At least 13 people, two of them policemen and an equal number of lawyers, were killed and 50 others injured today in twin suicide bomb attacks in Bangladesh by suspected Islamic militant..Read More
Shillong: The BSF today attributed slow pace of fencing along the Indo-Bangla border to recurring resistance from Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), topography and local people's apprehension of los..Read More
Calcutta: The Border Security Force reported on Monday that 192 camps of various terror outfits of the north-east existed in Bangladesh. "Some of the old camps were removed and some new camps h..Read More
Dhaka: Bangladesh has beefed up security in diplomatic areas following a purported al-Qaeda threat to blow up British, US and other Western diplomatic missions here. "We are not taking any chan..Read More
The Bangladesh army has started a fresh offensive against Islamic terrorists in the administrative regions of Bandarban, Khagrachari and Chittagong last week.While most of the terrorists escaped, thei..Read More
The 53-point declaration adopted by the 13th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit in Dhaka on 13 November is significant for several important policy initiatives. But, one o..Read More
Bangladesh has agreed to give partial custody of Indian insurgents caught by Bangladeshi authorities once India sends a formal request, but on the condition that they will not be sentenced to death.On..Read More
Dhaka: Coming together in a delayed Summit, leaders of SAARC countries today agreed on a united effort to combat terrorism with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserting that there should be "zer..Read More
Dhaka: Outlining a new vision for SAARC, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asserted that there should be "zero tolerance" for cross-border terrorism among member states and made far-reaching ..Read More
New Delhi: A Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist, who allegedly brought in the Ayodhya temple attackers from Bangladesh, has been arrested, police said today.Abdul Baqi, 33, was arrested by the Special ..Read More
Dhaka: The additional protocol to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation's Regional Convention on Suppression of Terrorism has come into force with all the seven countries of..Read More
New Delhi: In trying to push for greater economic integration in South Asia, India will be proposing an open skies arrangement at the SAARC meet in Dhaka much on the lines of what exists with A..Read More
Chandigarh: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the SAARC countries should examine the possibilities of energy cooperation among the member states.Delivering the P N Haksar Memorial..Read More
New Delhi: India will push for a common extradition treaty in the SAARC region to hunt down criminals, underworld kingpins, drug and arms smugglers, and terrorists, but it is pushing for a cons..Read More
New Delhi: Calling for boosting the process for intra-regional trade among the South Asian countries, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today felt that South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement..Read More
At least two people were killed and 50 injured in clashes between rival groups on Eid day in Dinajpur and Chuadanga districts of Bangladesh, police said here on Sunday.In Dinajpur, one person was kill..Read More
In November, 2005, Pakistan's design to destroy and dismember India will go one step further. For in November, 2005, in continuation of farcical 'Confidence Building measures', a weekly..Read More
For the past month, agencies have been intercepting communications suggesting that about three hundred hidden terrorists are trying to set up a training camp in the hills of Tangail district, which is..Read More
Islamist militants blamed for a wave of bomb attacks across Bangladesh over the past two months have threatened more attacks on government sites in the next fortnight, a government official said on Mo..Read More
Police in Bangladesh uncovered on Wednesday a workshop for manufacturing small bombs on the top floor of a mosque in the northeastern Sylhet city, a television news channel said.Police raided the mosq..Read More
Bangladesh on Monday banned the Islamic militant group Harkatul Jihad Al-Islami as a terrorist organisation, in the third such proscription this year, days after its top leader was arrested.A Home Min..Read More
Security teams of some member countries are inspecting venues for the SAARC summit here next month as host Bangladesh stepped up preparations for the twice-postponed regional meet.Officials here said ..Read More
Bangladesh Rifles personnel, accompanied by Bangladeshi villagers, barged into an Indian village in South Dinajpur district of West Bengal, looted a house and fired two rounds in the air, BSF sources ..Read More
The foreign policy and strategic dynamics of the Indian sub-continent never ceases to stump those observers who believe in unearthing "meta-narratives" or "trends" in their development. On October 5th..Read More
India's Border Security Force (BSF) and theBangladesh Rifles (BDR) exchanged heavy fire on 19 August 2005 over building an embankment along the Mahananda river at Golabari and Poladanga on the Ba..Read More
Bangladesh Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina today urged the government to quit immediately meeting the demand of the 14-party alliance. "The government must resign or an united people's movement w..Read More
Bangladesh's liberal cultural history has been cited as a natural anti-dote to the growth of terrorism in that country. However, each passing incident that has posed fundamental challenge to the ..Read More
Economics professor Sanat Kumar Saha was relaxing at home when three men burst in. They tied him down and began stabbing him. Saha blames the attack on Islamist radicals opposed to his liberal views, ..Read More
Two people were killed and 40 injured in a series of bomb blasts in courts in Bangladesh today as officials investigating the nationwide wave of blasts in August prepared to file charges against suspe..Read More
It is a political irony of post-partition India that none of its Government ever took the problem of large scale of Muslims infiltration from erstwhile East Pakistan, which is now Bangladesh to border..Read More
The Border Security Force (BSF) of India and Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) today decided to increase their 'coordinated patrolling' and agreed on a set of confidence-building measures (CBMs) even ..Read More
The Chinese government is said to have succumbed to Bangladeshi pressure for atomic science transfer in exchange for major naval bases in the Bay of Bengal.Bangladesh’s hardline Prime Minister Begum K..Read More
Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee, today said India's relations with China, Pakistan and Bangladesh are improving and a proposal has been finalised to start border trade from Nathula Pass in Sikk..Read More
At least 30 people including journalists, were injured and 25 others arrested on Wednesday after baton-wielding police and demonstrators clashed during a nationwide general strike enforced by Banglade..Read More
Ahead of the SAARC Summit to be held in Dhaka in November, the regional grouping's energy ministers would hold a two-day meet here beginning next month to discuss the progress on a host of initia..Read More