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India, Bangladesh inch towards Teesta, extradition pacts

May 7, 2012
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Signalling a positive movement forward on contentious issues, India and Bangladesh Monday said they have inched ahead towards signing of the Teesta river water-sharing accord and a long overdue extradition treaty. India’s External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his Bangladesh counterpart Dipu Moni had a “very useful and productive” first joint consultative commission meeting, after…

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Bangladesh Govt backs Tipaimukh dam

March 27, 2012
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Bangladesh Govt backs Tipaimukh dam

Addressing apprehensions within, Bangladesh has rejected the contention that the proposed Tipaimukh hydro-electricity project in Manipur would be harmful to it and has expressed interest in benefiting from it by deriving power. Sharing India’s view, Bangladesh High Commissioner Tariq Ahmed Karim has said the project was “not the cataclysm waiting to happen”, as being projected…

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Section 144 in Benapole

October 13, 2011
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Section 144 in Benapole

  Local administration imposed section 144 in Benapole bazaar and its adjoining area for 30 hours till        Thursday midnight as Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and BNP have called separate meetings at the same time and same venue.    Hasan Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Benapole Police Station, said the local unit of BNP decided to  hold…

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WB teenager held for being ‘Bangladeshi’

September 18, 2011
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The police seem to have been arresting Indians as Bangladeshis. In a recent case, personnel from the city police’s intelligence wing detained a West Bengal resident, Zamirul Gazi (19) from Koparkhairane and booked him under Foreigners’ Act. Gazi, who works in Mumbai as a labourer, returned from WB five months ago. “He worked as a…

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India, Bangladesh Join Hands to Save Sunderbans

September 13, 2011
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India, Bangladesh Join Hands to Save Sunderbans

The positive breakthroughs that came out of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Bangladesh last week. India and Bangladesh pledged to work together for the preservation of the Sunderbans mangrove forest and to protect the endangered Royal Bengal tigers who live there. The Sunderbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, lies between the two…

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Manmohan’s Dhaka trip: India, Bangladesh to ink pacts- Mamata Banerjee is not coming !!

September 5, 2011
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, accompanied by four chief ministers, leaves for Bangladesh Tuesday on a visit that is expected see the signing of a string of agreements. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s abrupt pulling out of the trip has put a question mark on the Teesta river water sharing agreement. Mamata Banerjee has decided…

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Mamata Banerjee the new West Bengal chief minister: Getting the vision going

May 26, 2011
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Mamata Banerjee the new West Bengal chief minister: Getting the vision going

Mamata Banerjee ,no doubt a symbol of political leadership for development . Becharam Manna gives up on his nap. He is being repeatedly disturbed by congratulatory telephone calls. It is the day after his party, the All India Trinamool Congress or TMC, swept to power in West Bengal ending the Left Front’s 34-year reign. Manna,…

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“Develop network with peers in Bangladesh”-Ambassador Akramul Qader urges expatriate doctors.

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and State Minister Mr. Akramul Qader attended the annual conference of Bangladesh Medical Association of North America, Louisiana chapter in Orleans, Louisiana and addressed a…

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Bangladesh opposes proposed dams in Meghalaya: Minister

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Meghalaya has made it clear that the dams which are to be built across the Myntdu and Umiew rivers would not have any negative impact…

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