New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) India and Bangladesh are set to lay down a new roadmap in terms of cooperation relating to security, counter-terrorism, and connectivity.Ties between India and Bangladesh were fully reset following the elections in which the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s (BNP) Tarique Rahman was elected as Prime Minister.The back channels had worked overtime to ensure this reset, and now, the visit by Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman to India will be watched with keen …
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Dhaka, March 25 (IANS) Bangladesh’s radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami has alleged that their alliance candidates suffered narrow defeats in the February 12 national elections due to electoral irregularities, including delayed results, missing polling agent signatures, forged endorsements, and pencil-marked tallies in some cases. Jamaat stated that it is pursuing these alleged electoral irregularities through formal legal channels but refraining from mobilising large-scale field actions at t…
New Delhi/Dhaka, Feb 18 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Wednesday congratulated Khalilur Rahman on being appointed as the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh under the new Tarique Rahman-led government.Khalilur Rahman was sworn in as the Foreign Minister on Tuesday at the South Plaza of the Parliament complex, along with 49 other Cabinet members of the new BNP-led government.The EAM expressed hope to advance the India-Bangladesh ties. In a post on X, EAM Jaishankar said, “Cong…
Dhaka, Dec 30 (IANS) M. Riaz Hamidullah, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India, met with the interim government’s Foreign Affairs Advisor, Md Touhid Hossain, and National Security Advisor Khalilur Rahman, after the envoy was “urgently” summoned back to Dhaka, local media reported. The meeting was held in the Foreign Advisor’s office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka.Speaking to journalists following the meeting, National Security Advisor Khalilur Rahman said, “We call the high commissi…