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Over 600,000 security personnel, including several thousand soldiers and paramilitary border guards, have been deployed across the country to help conduct the election in which 10.41 crore people are eligible to vote. (Photo: AP)

Bangladesh intensifies security as Hasina seeks re-election on Sunday

13 people have been killed in clashes between supporters of Awami League and activists of opposition Bangladesh...

29 Dec 2018 6:05 PM IST

Nilwaya polling booth in Dantewada district where Maoists killed four civilians on October 30, recorded 19 votes. The polling booth was newly opened. (Representational image)

Bangladesh deploys 6 lakh security forces ahead of elections today

The forces include elite Rapid Action Battalion, navy, border and coast guards and auxiliary police units -- are...

29 Dec 2018 1:39 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina share a laugh after a signing of agreements in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

Modi, Hasina & Didi: Teesta on their mind

It is significant that Sheikh Hasina made the time to meet Mamata Banerjee separately and alone.

29 May 2018 2:55 AM IST

Bangladeshs foreign minister Mahmud Ali said there is a need to build bridges with non-OIC countries which have large number of Muslims as their citizens. (Photo: AP)

Bangladesh proposes India's induction as OIC observer

The Organisation of Islamic Conference is a 57-member grouping of Muslim majority nations.

6 May 2018 6:30 PM IST

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As Bangladesh killings intensify, why is the world keeping quiet?

Global human rights bodies have spoken up, but only in the context of Rohingya Muslims, pressuring Bangladesh to permit...

21 Jun 2018 12:36 AM IST

Bangladeshi students march along a street during a student protest in Dhaka on August 5.(Photo: AFP)

Student protests surge in Bangladesh capital, US envoy's car attacked

Protests have flared repeatedly in Dhaka since two students were killed last week by speeding buses.

6 Aug 2018 1:59 PM IST

Besides the pipeline, the two leaders also inaugurated the construction of the third and fourth dual-gauge rail lines in Dhaka-Tongi section and the dual-gauge rail line in Tongi-Joydebpur section of Bangladesh Railway. (Photo: Twitter | @PIB_India)

PM Modi, Sheikh Hasina inaugurate India-Bangladesh friendship pipeline

The 130-kilometre India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Project will connect Siliguri in WB and Parbatipur in Dinajpur,...

18 Sept 2018 7:46 PM IST

India has achieved a lot in the last 70 years, theres still a lot more left to be done. Nation-building is really an ongoing project, and India remains a work-in-progress.

India@70: Lot to be proud of, much to do

India is the sixth largest economy in the world in terms of GDP, and the third largest by purchasing power parity.

16 Aug 2017 2:15 AM IST

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)s communication satellite GSAT-9 on-board GSLV-F09 lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota. (Photo: PTI)

Sky not limit for South Asia: Modi at satellite launch

Isolated' Pakistan claims it was kept out of project.

6 May 2017 1:00 AM IST

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

World reacts with shock to terror attack on yatris

Sheikh Hasina wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, condemning the heinous terror attack on Amarnath pilgrims.

12 July 2017 1:04 AM IST

Bangladesh buys two submarines from China

This is the first-ever addition of submarines in Bangladesh defence force.

15 Nov 2016 6:34 AM IST

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. (Photo: AP)

Communal harmony should be retained: Sheikh Hasina

As a Muslim majority country it is the moral responsibility of all of us to take care of the minorities, Bangladesh PM...

12 Nov 2016 8:48 PM IST