Pakistan on Thursday condemned the string of bomb blasts in Bangladesh which killed 2 persons and injured at least 140, saying they were a 'vicious act of terrorism.'
Australia's Test squad have been sent back to play domestic One-day cricket in order to prepare for next month's series against New Zealand after their tour to Bangladesh was postponed on Thursday due to security concerns.
Leading the protest against 'India-Bangladesh Land Pact' that was signed on September 6 in Dhaka in presence of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, the All Assam Students Union on Thursday brought out a protest rally in the city.
Mamata Banerjee is entitled to defend her people's interest but to boycott talks will trouble India's eastern neighbour for a long time, says B Z Khasru
The Kerala High Court directed ESPN to telecast the series through the Doordarshan channel concerned on revenue sharing basis.
The Trinamool Congress on Saturday launched its slogan for the upcoming assembly elections -- 'Bangla Nijer Meyekei Chaye', adding to the shrill insider vs outsider debate while portraying Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the daughter of Bengal.
In the run up to the general election, Aam Aadmi Party had alleged that RIL's partner Niko Resources was selling KG-D6 gas in Bangladesh for half the $4.2 per million British thermal unit rate that India pays them.
'I joined Hrishida when I was 17.' 'He left me with a lifetime of memories.'
The quizmaster-turned-parliamentarian was interrogated for about two hours on some financial transactions in bank accounts related to the TMC mouthpiece 'Jago Bangla'.
Bengali film star and Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha candidate Dev raked up a controversy by saying that joining election fray is like getting raped, but after facing flak from women's rights activists and opposition parties he apologised for the comment.
Bangladesh Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed has dismissed speculations that he is set to take over as president, saying he has no such intentions as an interim government installed nine months ago with crucial military support now runs the country. Priority of the incumbent government, he said, was to restore democracy through free and fair elections and transfer of power. Law and order was under the control of the caretaker government, which also enjoyed full public support.
A high-powered inter-ministerial committee was expected to finalise the list based on the suggestions and recommendations from different chambers, business houses and trade experts, the Daily Star newspaper reported.
Pakistan's intelligence aganeyc, the Inter Service Intelligence, has activated its sleeper cells in the North East region to use the Indo-Bangladesh border route as a 'safe passage' to courier its men and materials into different parts of India. This was revealed by the arrested ISI agent, Momin Khan, to his interrogators in Tripura recently.
India and Bangladesh will hold talks on bilateral trade on July 22 where the issue of trade barriers faced by Bangladeshi exporters is likely to figure.
Instead of arresting suspects and handing them over to the police for trial, BSF soldiers are often accused of taking the law in their hands, says Syed Tashfin Chowdhury
Unrest in Bangladesh's Khagracherri district has led around 90 Bangladeshi families to cross the unfenced Indo-Bangla border and take shelter at Tuichakma in Tripura's Dhalai district, official sources said on Wednesday.
'During the making of the film, he (Rishi Kapoor) kept fighting with Ayan and me.' 'Who takes so long to make a film? Who spends so much money?' 'Ranbir, you are not making a penny on this film. Who will watch a VFX film in the country?'
Did you know that the original choice for the title role in Piku was not Deepika Padukone? It was Parineeti Chopra.
The latest figures available with the Ministry of External Affairs indicate that there are 893 Indians in Bangladeshi prisons compared to 655 in Pakistani jails.
The condition of over two dozen people who were admitted to the hospital in Kathmandu is said to be serious.
Four people were allegedly killed in clashes between the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district after the election results were announced, official sources said on Monday.
On March 16 2012, Sachin Tendulkar went on to play a knock of 114 runs from 147 balls and took India's total to 289/5 in the allotted fifty overs.
'Overnight, the Chetak had new markings and thereafter flew on the call sign, Echo-Bravo-Romeo.' 'By all accounts, this was the first aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force.'
The government has also suspended movement of all types of passengers through international border points with Pakistan from 00:00 hours of March 16 in view of the threat from coronavirus.
She also raised the issue of the state's renaming and invited Modi to Bengal.
Rangan Chakravarty talks about the success of Bari Tar Bangla and the difficulties of making a film in Bengali.
India and Bangladesh are expected to sign at least six deals during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to New Delhi from January 10, including on cooperation on cross-border terrorism and exchange of convicted criminals, officials said in Dhaka on Thursday.
At least 40 people died and nearly 150 others were injured on Friday after a packed three-storey ferry carrying around 500 passengers caught fire on the Sugandha River in southern Bangladesh, officials said.
Bangladesh's two former ministers, who aided banned extremist group the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami in its botched attempt to kill Premier Sheikh Hasina in 2004, also helped the outfit procure arms for use against India, a Dhaka court was told.
A senior official of the Pakistan cricket Board has squashed fears expressed by former captains, Zaheer Abbas and Rashid Latif that the BCCI could influence the BCB to not tour Pakistan next year although the PCB had agreed to let Bangladesh field a candidate for the post of vice-president in the ICC.
As Jaya Bachchan turns 73 today, Subhash K Jha remembers her lesser known performances.
Mr Warne, the world will miss you.
The Bangladesh army is planning to wrap up its 20 days of salvage campaign at the ruins of a garment factory building that collapsed last month, even as toll from the country's worst ever industrial disaster rose to 1,127.
Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina has said she hoped to resolve the Tipaimukh Dam issue with India through talks in co-operation with her arch-rival Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which is opposed to the cross-border hydro-power project in Manipur.
The West Bengal chief minister said such "insult" was unacceptable.
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