Ahead of his two-day maiden visit to Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was looking forward to it with a great sense of "enthusiasm and delight" as the two sides readied a host of pacts to be signed including one on enhancing connectivity.
She is scheduled to reach Dhaka at 4 pm on Monday.
At least one person was killed and five others injured when an explosion ripped through a major state-run corporation complex located at a major commercial hub in Dhaka, the police and witnesses said on Monday.
A Delhi-bound Jet Airways aircraft carrying 139 persons skidded off a runway just before its take off from the Bangladesh capital on Monday, but no one was hurt in the accident.
The Sheikh Hasina-Narendra Modi summit put India-Bangladesh ties on a firmer pitch. Brigadier S K Chatterji (retd) takes stock.
"The others were tortured by the gunmen," Rezaul Karim, father of Hasnat Karim who was held hostage inside Holey Artisan Bakery in the diplomatic zone for over 10 hours was quoted as saying to The Daily Star.
Air-India on Saturday launched a new long haul flight from Delhi connecting Dhaka, Kolkata and London, with Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed saying it would go a long way in strengthening Indo-Bangla relations.
'The police had cautioned me that there could be some 'trouble' in Dhaka by the end of June.' 'Once brainwashed, these young people don't think twice about killing people, thinking such an act will pave the path for heaven.'
During his two-day visit to Bangladesh, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid made some promises to address Dhaka's concerns on a number of long-standing issues. Khurshid, who had arrived on Saturday to attend the second meeting of the Indo-Bangla Joint Consultative Commission, also assured Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that his government wants to see zero casualties at the border, which often witnesses skirmishes between and random shootings.
The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), which trained a batch of Assam's United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants in 1991-92, considered the rebel group's chief Paresh Baruah a prize catch and did not want to offend him even after he was unwilling to take the agency's commands on conducting operations in the northeastern state, claims a new book.
Revamped menus and menu-cards, uniforms and store interiors have been readied in tieup with designer Rina Dhaka for the 12-year-old Barista, which was taken over by Italian coffee major Turin-based Lavazza in 2007.
The Dhaka-Kolkata direct train service resumed on Monday after a gap of four decades as the Moitree Express, with 370 passengers aboard, left the Cantonment Station in Dhaka following a colourful ceremony coinciding with the Bengali New Year celebrations. The service aims to facilitate easy movement between the two countries after 43 years.
Brazilian World Cup winner Ronaldinho will visit to Kolkata in October.
The mortal remains of Indian teenager Tarishi Jain, who was among those hacked to death by Islamic militants in a terror attack at a Dhaka restaurant, will be brought in New Delhi on Monday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said.
Regular commercial service will commence on Saturday September 20.
Bangladesh lost their last nine wickets for 49 runs as England hit back from a slow start on the first day of the second and final Test in Dhaka.
Dhaka Warriors won their first match in the Indian Cricket League 20-20 Championship beating Delhi Giants by 62 runs at the Sardar Vallabbhai Patel stadium in Ahmedabad.
A superb captain's knock by Chris Harris brought holders Hyderabad Heroes back from the jaws of defeat and powered them to a four-wicket win in their ICL T20 encounter against Dhaka Warriors at the Lal Bahadur Shastri stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday night.
An intelligence agency of a foreign country mobilsed funds for the Dhaka cafe attack which was carried out on behalf of a top fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader who is on death row after being convicted for 1971 war crimes in Bangladesh, according to a media report.
Acting deputy vice chancellor of a private university has been arrested in Dhaka along with two others for sheltering militants who carried out Bangladesh's worst terror attack at a cafe in which 22 people were killed by suspected Islamic State militants.
The Egyptian embassy in Bangladesh will remain closed for 11 days from Wednesday over "security reasons".
The bus service has remained suspended after the torching of a Maitree bus by a mob at Narsingdi in Bangladesh on September 21. Syed Tashfin Chowdhury reports from Dhaka
The full horror of the mutiny by Bangladesh's paramilitary force, the Bangladesh Rifles, was revealed on Friday when security forces discovered a mass grave of at least 42 massacred army officers including its chief Major General Shakil Ahmed who is among the 67 dead.
Former captain Shahid Afridi grabbed yet another five-wicket haul as Pakistan overcame Bangladesh by five wickets in the first one-day international in Dhaka on Thursday.
Rediff.com's Sanchari Bhattacharya, who is also travelling with the prime minister, reports from Dhaka.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday arrived in Dhaka on a two-day visit aimed at further strengthening India's relations with Bangladesh.
National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon on Saturday visited the Bangladesh capital on an unscheduled tour, the second in five days to review the last-minute preparedness ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit next week.
'The 1971 War was our greatest military victory.' 'It had so many stories of exceptional valour and leadership.'
The earlier attempt by the authorities in Dhaka that Islamist militancy had not established a presence in Bangladesh will now have to be given up.
India has asked Bangladesh to expedite the extradition of top United Liberation Front of Asom insurgent Anup Chetia who has served out his sentence in this country after being arrested on the charge of entering without valid documents in 1997.
Dismissing rumours that India and Bangladesh was close to finalsing Teesta River Agreement, a senior official accompanying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his visit to Dhaka said that the two nations were only working towards a treaty. He said that the agreement was unlikely during the ongoing visit, but he said it might see the light of the day soon. Sanchari Bhattacharya reports
Tarishi, according to the minister, was 19-years-old. She passed out from American School Dhaka. Presently, she was a student at Berkeley.
The match will now take place on Monday, the reserve day.
'We are ready to surrender,' Lieutenant General A A K Niazi said over the phone from Dhaka.
Bangladesh's police and paramilitary troops on Sunday night dispersed a huge demonstration by thousands of Islamist protesters after violent clashes in Dhaka left seven people dead and scores injured. "The Motijheel is now under our control. Hefazat-e-Islami has quit the area," a police spokesman told newsmen.
'A deadly combination of money and religion lures them into the murky world of terrorism.' 'You will reach heaven if you kill -- what a doctrine!' Professor Ajoy Roy, whose son blogger Avijit Roy was brutally murdered in Dhaka last year, tells Rediff.com's Indrani Roy.
India seamer Deepak Chahar has claimed that Malaysian Airlines misplaced his luggage when he was travelling to Dhaka from New Zealand and he was not served food even as he was flying Business Class.
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