Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will put forward a three-phase peace roadmap for Afghanistan during a proposed meeting in Turkey, seeking an agreement with the Taliban and a ceasefire before elections, a document seen by Reuters shows.

Bangladesh and other BIMSTEC countries have finalised the text of its charter, a master plan for transport connectivity, and a Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters to be signed at the fifth summit of the group expected to be held in Sri Lanka soon.

India is sending a 30-member delegation to the four-nation military exercise “Shantir Orgoshena 2021” to be held in Bangladesh from April 4 to 12, commemorating the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and 50 years of Bangladesh’s independence.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has promoted peace and non-communal politics not only in Bangladesh but in the entire Indian sub-continent, said Indian Railway, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal.

Eighteen months after banning bilateral trade after heightened tension over Kashmir, Pakistan today decided to buy sugar and cotton from India, Pakistan’s newly-appointed Finance Minister Hammad Azhar announced today.

South Asia's prospect for an economic rebound is firming up as the area's growth is set to increase by 7.2 per cent in 2021 and 4.4 per cent in 2022, World Bank said in its twice-a-year-regional update today.

Pakistan’s prime minister has responded to a recent peace overture from his Indian counterpart, writing in a letter to Narendra Modi that Islamabad also desires peaceful relations with New Delhi, officials said yesterday.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed High Commissioner Imran Ahmed Siddiqui to continue efforts for promotion of bilateral ties with Bangladesh.

The much-anticipated meeting of the foreign ministers of Pakistan and India in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) on the sidelines of a ministerial conference of the Heart of Asia — Istanbul Process, which gets under way on today — has not been scheduled so far.

The Philippine military is sending light fighter aircraft to fly over hundreds of Chinese vessels in disputed waters in the South China Sea, its defence minister said, as he repeated his demand the flotilla be withdrawn immediately.

Two suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding fourteen people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, the country’s national police said.

An application has been filed under the Right to Information Act (RTI) seeking detailed information about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim of his arrest and imprisonment for supporting Bangladesh’s independence.

Bilateral talks between Bangladesh and India started this afternoon at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are set to have “substantive discussions” with focus on trade, connectivity and Covid-19 cooperation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said India, being the largest country in the region, needs to play a pioneering role in building a stable and politically and economically vibrant South Asia.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at Dhaka on a two-day official visit to take part in the golden jubilee celebration of Bangladesh's independence and Mujib Borsho – birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has written a letter to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, congratulating her on 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence and Mujib Borsho, seeking to fortify the existing bonds between the two countries and to build new ones for the succeeding generations.

The three-day 7th Staff Talks between Indian Navy and Bangladesh Navy for further bolstering existing defence relations between the two countries in the maritime domain ended in New Delhi today.

The Hi-Tech Park, which is being built in the Korean Export Processing Zone in Chattogram, will emerge as a hub for ICT-centric innovative growth in tune with the digital transformation in Bangladesh, said South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun today.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said he would be having “substantive discussions” with his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka following the “very productive” virtual meeting between them in December last year.