Pallab Bhattacharya

In politics, there are no permanent friends but only permanent interests. This adage proved true once again as Nitish Kumar yesterday

As Pranab Mukherjee, the first Bengali president of India, readies to step down on Monday after his five-year tenure, he leaves behind the legacy of a copybook head of state who strived hard to bring the presidential palace closer to the public.

Ram Nath Kovind, the candidate of India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, was yesterday elected as the country's 14th president with an overwhelming majority of votes from lawmakers.

Abid Haider is a nature-loving poet with an existential crisis: he cannot do star-gazing due to a thick grey coating caused by air

Veteran Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee has been chosen for France's highest civilian honour, Legion of Honour, (Ordre national de

Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is likely to have a three day tour of Bangladesh in the first week of July.

Soon after I met journalist-writer Nadeem Qadir in Dhaka, way back in 1991, I heard about his being the son of a senior officer in the

Director Morshedul Islam, one of the torch-bearers of story-driven cinema in Bangladesh, is happy but not “totally satisfied” by the

After being in Bollywood as an actress for 11 years since her debut in “Gangster”, national award-winning actress Kangana Ranaut is

Prominent yesteryears Bollywood actor and politician Vinod Khanna, who seamlessly transited from negative on-screen roles to hero,

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee apparently won't budge on a Teesta water sharing deal despite Prime Minister Narendra

India's Supreme Court's order restoring the charge of criminal conspiracy against three senior leaders of ruling Hindu nationalist

India's Water Resources and River Development Minister Uma Bharti said the federal government has a positive stand on the issue of

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday invited Indian investors to park their funds in Bangladesh's seven sectors -- including

With Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wrapping up her India visit yesterday, government agencies and private companies of the two countries signed 13 more agreements and memoranda of understanding to further deepen bilateral economic partnership. The deals involving around $10 billion cover the power, energy, logistics, education and medical sectors.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi yesterday conveyed to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that there is a bipartisan approach in India towards consolidating relations with Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday secured a firm assurance from her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi that New Delhi would

Bangladesh and India were drawn into a close strategic embrace yesterday with the two neighbours expanding their cooperation to new areas of defence and civil nuclear sectors.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has apparently failed to persuade an adamant West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to agree to the Teesta water-sharing deal.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday embarked on a four-day state visit to India with a flickering hope of breaking the stalemate on the much-delayed Teesta water-sharing treaty. “I want to have a separate meeting with Mamata [chief minister of West Bengal], and I am waiting for that,” Hasina told a group of four Indian journalists hours after Indian Premier Narendra Modi received her at Delhi's Palam Air Force Station in a departure from his protocol.