Dhaka: Energy-starved Bangladesh on Sunday announced the discovery of an economically viable oil reserve after seismic 3D survey found an extractable reserve of 55 million barrels in the country's northeast. Petrobangla is announcing with pleasure that Bangladesh has entered a new ear through the discovery of a profitable oil reserve in (northeastern) Haripur and Kailashtila, state-run Petrobangla's chairman Hossain Monsur told a press conference. He said the approximate market price...
02:51 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: An amendment to the Constitution is being drafted to enable the exchange of 111 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh and 51 Bangladeshi enclaves in the Indian territory, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has said. "Government is committed to the earliest implementation of the Protocol and Land Boundary Agreement (between the two countries) that would result in exchange of enclaves," he said in a letter to CPI leader Prabodh Panda....
04:59 PM, May 17, 2012
Kolkata: Bangladesh wants speedy resolution of the visa problems being faced by its nationals who travel to India for medical treatment or to visit their relatives. Urging India to ease the visa rules, Bangladesh Liberation War Affairs Minister Capt (Retd) AB Tazul Islam on Sunday said the issue had been discussed at the foreign secretary level of the two countries. "The issue of visa rules simplification has been discussed at...
07:42 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: 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. A joint statement issued after the first meeting of the Joint Consultative Commission co-chaired by External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and his Bangladeshi counterpart Dipu Moni in New Delhi said the two Ministers noted that...
11:17 PM, May 07, 2012
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be meeting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday. ...
09:01 AM, May 07, 2012
Kolkata: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday as part of her three-day visit to the country, during which issues like Teesta Water Treaty and FDI are likely to come up. The meeting with the chief minister, the first such exercise by any US Secretary of State, is considered important as the Trinamool Congress chief had effectively stalled the UPA government's...
07:20 AM, May 07, 2012
New Delhi: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Kolkata from Dhaka on a three day visit to India on Sunday. She waved to the waiting camerapersons at the airport and posed for photos before boarding a limousine which headed for her hotel in South Kolkata amid tight security. The high point of Clinton's visit, her second to the city and first after becoming the US Secretary of...
01:11 PM, May 06, 2012
New Delhi: Extradition treaty, Teesta river water-sharing, land boundary agreeement and newer areas of cooperation are expected to be high on the agenda when the first meeting of India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission is held in New Delhi on May 7 and 8. Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni arrives in New Delhi to co-chair the meeting of the Commission with External Affairs Minister SM Krishna when the two sides will jointly...
01:50 AM, May 05, 2012
Kolkata: Stressing that people of Bangladesh wanted the Teesta water sharing accord signed with India, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni on Sunday hoped the pact will be inked, saying the two countries were continuing discussions on the issue. "We are hopeful that the Teesta water sharing accord will be signed. The two countries have continued the bilateral relation and communication that is needed for the accord to see the light...
01:57 AM, Apr 30, 2012
Dhaka: Five-year-old Indian boy Ariful Sheikh, who spent nearly a year in a Bangladesh jail along with his grandparents, was released on Sunday. Ariful was reunited with his parents after the Bangladesh Border Guards handed him along with his grandparents to the BSF at the Gede checkpost on the Indo-Bangladesh border on Sunday morning. Later the BSF handed them over to Murshidabad police, BSF sources said. Ariful, his grandfather Hachimuddin...
02:49 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Washington: Around 13 per cent of the world's adults - or over 640 million people - would like to emigrate with roughly 150 million, including 10 million Indians wishing to settle in America. So suggests a new Gallup survey giving the US an undisputed title as the globe's most desired destination for would-be migrants since Gallup began tracking patterns in 2007. Would-be migrants who express desires to relocate to the...
02:43 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Dhaka: A five-year-old Indian boy and his grandparents are lodged in a Bangladesh jail for a year since the process for their confirmation as Indian nationals has taken up a lot of time, a media report said on Wednesday. The boy, Ariful Haq Seikh, his grandfather Hasim Uddin Seikh, 55, and grandmother Maforza Khatun, 50, are languishing in Kushtia jail for entering Bangladesh without valid travel documents, reported Daily Star....
01:11 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Dhaka: Defence lawyers on Tuesday cross-examined a former chief of Bangladesh's main counter intelligence agency in the country's biggest ever weapon haul linked to India's separatist ULFA outfit. Court officials said counsels for the suspects grilled former director general of forces intelligence (DGFI) chief retired major general Sadik Hasan Rumi as he earlier testified before the court at southeastern port city of Chittagong. Rumi in his statement earlier in the...
05:52 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: India and Bangladesh on Thursday agreed to renew the bilateral trade agreement, which expires on March 31, for three years and agreed to further liberalise two-way flow of goods and investments. "We have come to an agreement that the trade treaty which was due to expire on March 31 will be extended for a period of three years," Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar said a joint press briefing with...
07:42 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday described as false and misleading media reports that the Pakistani spy agency ISI had financed the Bangladesh's main opposition BNP during the 1991 general election in the country. Referring to reports in sections of the Bangladeshi media that former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Asad Durrani had admitted that the spy agency had financed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 1991, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said these...
12:20 AM, Mar 23, 2012
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