The Dhaka to Kathmandu US-Bangla Airlines flight, with 67 passengers and four crew members on board, caught fire after it careened off the runway and ploughed into a football ground near the Tribhuvan International Airport on Monday.
The last talks between home secretaries was held in September 2004.
The 36th commission meeting had 7 points on its agenda, including the sharing of the Teesta river.
Discarding a status quo agreement, personnel of the Bangladesh Rifles on Sunday opened fire on Indian villagers, prompting the Border Security Force to retaliate at three places along the international border in Meghalaya, but, there was no report of any casualty.
"The game is not yet over. Even parties like the Samajwadi Party, which lost the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, has more MLAs than it had last time," she said.
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Saturday visited the Indo-Bangladesh border in Assam's Dhubri district to review security measures, particularly in the riverine areas, following allegations of unabated illegal influx.
A high-level government committee has accused activists of ruling Awami League alongside main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami for the attack on Buddhist temples and localities in south-eastern Bangladesh last month, reports said on Friday.
The victims, aged between 2 and 12, were attacked by a pack of stray dogs Friday and Saturday in Patuakhali district, 150 kilometers south of Dhaka. But the local hospital lacks the rabies vaccine.
Police opened fire and used tear gas to disperse student groups belonging to the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its coalition ally the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party.
The agency had summoned him in January too but he sought time, citing the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, they said.
In the same case, her son Tarique Rahman and four others have been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
A Division bench of Gauhati high court comprising Chief Justice A K Goel and Justice N K Singh has held that the protocol signed between India and Bangladesh on exchange of land can't be implemented without amending the Constitution and enactment of law.
Mustafizur Rahman's three-wicket haul and Mushfiqur Rahim's unbeaten 16-run knock helped Bangladesh defeat New Zealand by seven wickets in the first T20I of the five-match series here at the Shere Bangla National Stadium on Wednesday.
When the BJP forms government in Bengal, the chief minister will be a son of the soil, he said at the rally amid loud cheers from his supporters.
The massive consignment of arms was meant for Northeastern rebels, says India.
Viewing the mutiny in Bangladesh as an effort to destabilise the Sheikh Hasina government, India on Monday expressed solidarity with her dispensation and conveyed readiness to extend whatever support and assistance that Dhaka may require at the present juncture.
Led by Daniel Vettori, New Zealand had batted first and posted 221 for 8 in 50 overs. In reply, the Proteas were bowled out for 172 with du Plessis, playing in only his 10th ODI, making 36.
Veteran Awami League leader Zillur Rahman, a close aide to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was on Wednesday declared as the country's new President by the election commission, more than a month after his party swept the landmark general elections.
Smuggling and crime are everyday instances. The 70,000 people in villages along the border make the going tough for the BSF. Neelabh Srivastava reports
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A Bangladeshi court on Wednesday upheld the arrest warrants issued against former PM Khaleda Zia in two graft cases.
Indian conglomerate Tata Group is expected to resume its stalled negotiations with Bangladesh government on its 3 billion dollars investment proposal next month, officials said on Wednesday. Hussain did not elaborate exactly when the talks would begin but officials said these were expected to resume in the first week of June 2008. The Indian conglomerate on April 2005 formally submitted $2.5 billion investment proposal and revised it to around $3 billion to set up a 1,000 MW
Marking further cementing of bilateral ties, a haat (rural bazaar) on the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya was inaugurated on Saturday.
The BJP, which has emerged as the main opposition party in West Bengal after winning 77 seats in the assembly polls last year, failed to win even a single civic body.
Rescuers on Monday recovered 20 bodies from the wreckage site of the Tara Air plane that crashed in Nepal's mountainous Mustang district on Sunday with 22 people on board, including four Indians, minutes after taking off from the tourist city of Pokhara, officials said.
A tribunal of the Delhi high court has confirmed the extension of a five-year ban imposed on Islamic Research Foundation, set up by fugitive Zakir Naik who is accused of inspiring Muslim youths in India and abroad to commit terror acts.
A member of the 1983 cricket World Cup-winning squad, Azad was suspended from the Bharatiya Janata Party for openly targeting the then Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over alleged irregularities and corruption in the Delhi and District Cricket Association in December 2015. He joined the Congress in 2018.
Yunus, however, rejected reports that a committee was constituted for the negotiation.
Sources said that there could be similarities between the explosives used in Mecca Masjid blast in Hyderabad in May this year and Satudrday's explosion.
The Mamata Banerjee-led party, which has often been mocked by opponents for not having a well-defined ideological plank, seems to have finally found its calling in Bengali sub-nationalism, as a section of top party leaders feel only an 'inclusive message of regionalism, which the Bengalis can identify with, will counter the aggressive nationalism and Hindutva practised by the saffron camp'.
The first ever train service between India and Bangladesh is expected to begin by next month with the inter-country 'Moitree Express' ready for operations, officials said on Saturday.
The first ever train service between India and Bangladesh is expected to begin by next month with the inter-country 'Moitree Express' ready for operations, officials said on Saturday.
Soon, rubber fencing might come up along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
The Border Guards Bangladesh on Tuesday began talks with their Indian counterparts and representatives of the Union ministries of home and external affairs on a host of issues related to crime and illegal movement along the frontier.
A 40-year-old man was killed and a child injured on Monday in "unprovoked" firing in a case of ceasefire violation by suspected Bangladeshi border guarding force personnel in north Bengal, officials said.
According to an air traffic controller at Jomsom Airport, they was an unconfirmed report about a loud noise reported in the Ghasa region of Jomsom, according to the Post report.
"The President has proclaimed emergency using his authority as mentioned in the Article 141 of the Constitution," a presidential spokesman said.
They alleged that free and fair polls were not possible under the present caretaker government.
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