India's Supreme Court Thursday delivered a split judgment on a bunch of petitions challenging the ban on hijabs in classrooms in the state of Karnataka. Hijabs are headscarves worn by Muslim women. Muslims are a minority community in India. The government in the southern Indian state banned hijabs in schools and colleges
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Bangladesh earns $1.36cr from Hilsa export to India
Bangladesh government has earned 1.36 crore US dollars from exporting 1,352 tonnes of hilsa fish to India this year so far, Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim said Thursday. Hilsa production has doubled in last 12 years and the rate of production is now 90 percent, he said. The minister revealed
Better management of shared waterways can benefit both Bangladesh and India
Although Bangladesh’s waterways carry tremendous economic and geostrategic significance for both Bangladesh and India, environmental management issues have rendered most of these routes useless. Bangladesh and India signed a protocol for using the waterways to carry goods in 1972. However, only three of the designated 11 routes are in regular use
India to get 3,000 MT hilsha during Durga Puja
Bangladesh will export around 3,000 tonnes of hilsha to India marking the upcoming holy Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, scheduled to be held next month. “We have been exporting hilsha continuously for the last three years to India as a mark of gesture and relief for
India bans Muslim outfit PFI for links with JMB
India has banned the Popular Front of India (PFI), a controversial Muslim outfit, for five years, citing its alleged links with Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) among other terror groups. The five-year ban against the PFI, its student wing Campus Front of India, and other frontal organisations comes after a week of intense
How India-Bangladesh relations can be win-win for both
Following its declaration in December 1971, Bangladesh's independence was first acknowledged by India. In South Asia, these two nations have historically had a shared border. Although there have been a few problems, relations between the two nations are still largely good. Despite decades-long border disputes coming to an end with
New Indian envoy Pranay Kumar in city
Newly appointed Indian High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh Pranay Kumar Verma has arrived in Dhaka. Verma, who most recently served as Ambassador of India to Vietnam, arrived here on Wednesday night. He will formally take up the assignment shortly after submitting his credentials to President Abdul Hamid. Pranay Verma joined the Indian Foreign Service
9 dead in India wall collapse
At least nine people were killed when the boundary wall of an Army enclave collapsed on their temporary housing sheds in India's Uttar Pradesh state in the small hours of Friday following incessant monsoon rains. The tragedy occurred in the Dilkusha area of Lucknow, the capital of the northern state, situated
Hasina, Modi ask officials to expedite CEPA negotiations
Bangladesh and India have agreed to start negotiations within the calendar year 2022 for signing the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart directed trade officials on both sides to complete these negotiations at the earliest and in time for Bangladesh's final graduation from
