Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday arrived in Dhaka on a two-day tour to join the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of poet Rabindranath Tagore.
India and Bangladesh on Monday agreed to conclude an extradition treaty at the earliest and vowed not to allow each other's territories to be used by domestic or foreign militants and insurgents' outfits.
Four more persons perished in the heat wave sweeping across several parts of West Bengal to take the toll to 52, even as light showers on Thursday morning brought some relief to the people.
Prithviraj's gift to his fans this festive season is disappointing.
If an earthquake causes the dam to collapse, it can threaten the lives of 3.5 million people downstream. The issue needs to be looked at as a national problem, not as a dispute between two states, says Dipu Santh
India will get access to its landlocked seven northeastern states through Bangladesh with
With Bangladesh set to try the 1971 war "criminals", Pakistan has said a tripartite treaty also involving India had resolved the issue for good.
Responding to New Delhi's concerns, Bangladesh on Monday gave a commitment of not allowing its territory to be used for anti-India activities, as the two countries discussed a proposal for setting up a regional task force to tackle the menace. Reaching out to the new government in Dhaka, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee held talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and Home Minister Sahara Katun and conveyed concerns.
In an apparent reference to Pakistan, India on Monday said hurdles in the global war against terror are created by "unwillingness" or lack of "sincerity" on part of countries and any "architecture or framework" does not "stand in the way" of fighting the menace.
Winter, the horror film starring Jayaram and Bhavana made it to the theatres after languishing in the cans for the last couple of years; written and directed by Dipu ends up just being mumbo jumbo.
A direct contest between nominees of the BJP-led NDA and Congress-headed Grand Alliance is on the cards in 20 constituencies
It is believed that the main audience for a Dileep movie is the kids who tug the elders in the family to the theatres. So, most of his films right from Meesamadhavan to CID Moosa and Inspector Garud have been humour based lowbrow entertainers that you can watch without exerting your brain. Most of these films were made by his friends.
The girl was allegedly repeatedly assaulted before being killed at a village in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district in January.
In 2020, Hindi cinema had a tough time staying on par with its southern counterparts.
Al-Qaeda on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the brutal killings of Bangladesh's first gay magazine editor
Bangladesh's first gay magazine editor was brutally murdered on Monday along with a friend in his flat in Dhaka by suspected Islamists, in the latest audacious attack on high-profile bloggers and intellectuals in the Muslim-majority country.
He's a serial entrepreneur, has delved into politics and a fitness freak.
Hasina, the president of the Awami League, won the 11th parliamentary elections with a landslide victory even as the Opposition rejected the "farcical" polls marred by violence that claimed 17 lives, making it one of the deadliest polls in the country's history.
The latest updates from the Malayalam film industry.
Bangladesh police detained a college student and claimed to have found some "important evidence" in connection with the brutal killing of two gay rights activists.
All through Moothon, you can sense Mohandas trying hard to empathise with her characters; I just wish she was interested in them, declares Sreehari Nair.
De-allocation could raise import bill by $3 billion, add to coal shortage.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Monday.
India plans to double coal production by 2020
Indira Kannan picks Made in Bangladesh, Greed, Moothon.
Tata, Adani, Lanco to be hit as Indonesia may ban export of low-grade coal
Offloading shares in ONGC, CIL, NHPC may fetch govt more than the year's target.
The United Progressive Alliance government's efforts to extend a friendly hand to the Sheikh Hasina government in neighbouring Dhaka were thwarted by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee whose party joined hands with the Adom Gana Parishad in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, ensuring that the Constitution Amendment Bill ratifying the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh could not be introduced.
The shift to gross calorific value-based grading of coal aligned domestic prices with international benchmarks.
Friendlier government policies, greater demand and better supply of coal have fuelled investor interest.
The compulsions of domestic politics notwithstanding, India and Bangladesh script a new story in bilateral relations, say Nayanima Basu and Aditi Phadnis
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