Pallab Bhattacharya

A new integrated Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) will be inaugurated today at Jamuna Future Park (JFP), jointly by the home ministers of India and Bangladesh.

India on Wednesday refused entry to Alexander Carlile, a legal adviser to Khaleda Zia, on the grounds that he did not have a “valid and appropriate visa” and he wanted to create a “problem” between New Delhi and Dhaka.

The Saarc Development Fund is developing an e-commerce platform for trade in goods and services and plans to fund start-ups, said its chief executive officer Sunil Motiwal.

The world's biggest mobile factory was launched yesterday in Noida, a satellite township of New Delhi, jointly by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting South Korean President Moon Jae.

India is in for a testing time for conducting its complex relations with the United States. This was clearly brought out by US' inability made public on June 27 to hold the crucial dialogue at the level of foreign and defence ministers in the first week of July in Washington and seek a rescheduling of the events.

India has agreed to provide tariff concessions on 3,142 products to Asia Pacific Trade Agreement (APTA) member-countries, including

India is looking at reducing oil imports from Iran and replacing them with more purchases from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait after the US reimposed sanctions on the country in the Persian Gulf over its nuclear programme, government and industry officials said yesterday.

Power politics makes strange bedfellows. But perhaps none stranger than the coming together of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and People's Democratic Party (PDP) in the terrorism-hit state of Jammu and Kashmir. After a little more than three years of uneasy co-existence, the alliance is in tatters. There is no popularly elected government in the state now under the rule of the federal BJP government.

A youth from Bangladesh, who is serving a life term sentence in Delhi's Tihar Jail after being convicted in a murder case, will be taken back to his country on June 29 under a bilateral treaty on 'Transfer of Sentenced Prisoners'. The treaty was signed eight years ago.

India has increased the customs duty on several goods, including Bengal gram, lentils and artemia—a kind of shrimp—imported from the United States with effect from August 4.

Indian investment in big projects in Bangladesh with buy-back arrangement, development of cargo handling at ports and greater integration of the two economies can generate jobs, said experts here yesterday.

It is a bit surprising that the issue of the Indian government's proposed law to give citizenship to six “persecuted” religious minority groups in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and India hasn't got much traction in Bangladeshi media.

Pressing for expeditious start of Rohingyas return to Myanmar, Bangladesh yesterday expressed concern over possible radicalisation of Rohingya refugees, saying refugee camps all over the world are a "breeding ground" for extremism.

A country's foreign policy is often driven by the national imperatives of the party in power there. This was evident when Prime

The template for India's next general elections due early next year appears to have been set. It is going to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party versus the entire opposition. To keep the BJP at bay, the Congress is ready to play second fiddle to a regional party. These are the two biggest messages emanating from the swiftness with which the main opposition, Congress party headed by Rahul

Can the collapse of the three-day-old Bharatiya Janata Party government in Karnataka mark a turnaround in Rahul Gandhi-led Congress party ahead of fresh national elections early next year?

By announcing the conditional unilateral cessation of pro-active operations by security forces against militants in Jammu and Kashmir during Ramadan, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken a decision that is fraught with as much risk as a potential turnaround for the better. This is the first such peace initiative by the Modi government since coming to power four years ago.

When Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj undertook a two-day visit to Myanmar on May 10-11, it had important implications for Bangladesh.

On May 8 when the President of India's main opposition party Congress said that he was ready to become the prime minister if his party finished on top in fresh general elections due next year, he sent a message to multiple constituencies and once again set the political circles abuzz. This was not the first time Rahul came out with such an assertion.

With the general elections in Bangladesh slated for later this year, Bangladesh and India are in talks to fast-track implementation of the development projects under the second and third lines of credit totalling seven billion dollars.