Tag: India

Govt extends closure of land border with India

- Times Report -

The closure of the Bangladesh land border with India has been extended for another 14 days due to Covid-19 situation. The decision to extend the land border was taken at a virtual meeting chaired by Foreign Secretary Masud bin Momen on Saturday (May 7th), a Foreign Ministry official present at the

Hundreds of Bangladeshis stranded in Kolkata

- Dipak Mukherjee, Kolkata -

Hundreds of Bangladeshis stranded in Kolkata after the Bangladesh government suddenly closed its borders with India urged upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to allow them to get back home. Most of them are ailing people who came to various hospitals at Chennai, Delhi and Kolkata for treatment purposes. But on reaching

Double mutant linked to surge: Indian Govt

- Times Report -

The Indian government has said that a double mutant variant of the coronavirus, first discovered there in March, may be linked to the deadly second wave surge there. Samples containing the mutant or B.1.617 variant have been found in several states with high number of cases. An official associated with the National

Corona, China and India’s lost priorities

- Afsan Chowdhury -

Suddenly India looks very vulnerable in the face of corona. The general feeling was that the virus had been tackled in India and it emerged as a “hero ‘to its people. While infection rates soared in the rest of the world, India was relatively safe. On top of that India

India gets first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine

- Times Report -

The first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in India on Saturday, according to reports by TASS. The vaccine was delivered to the airport of Hyderabad by the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which oversees the project. Sputnik V is the third vaccine to be used in India. Earlier, only

Bangladesh offers emergency medical supplies to India

- Times Report -

The government of Bangladesh has offered to dispatch emergency basis medicines and medical equipment for the people of India as the country is crippled with a rapidly deteriorating coronavirus situation. The supplies include approximately 10,000 vials of injectable anti-viral, oral anti-viral, 30,000 PPE kits, and several thousand zinc, calcium, vitamin C

Lessons to learn from India’s Covid

- Afsan Chowdhury -

India’s disaster in managing the Covid and the resultant human suffering is a brutal lesson in reality checking. India not only looks unprepared but downright incompetent. For a country that has always claimed to be the best run in South Asia, it’s scary to see how hard one may fall

India bans all electoral victory rallies

- Times Report -

India's Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday banned all electoral victory rallies in the country. The move comes a day after a higher court held the constitutional body responsible for the ferocious second wave of Covid-19 and threatened to book top poll officials for murdering innocent citizens. The results for assembly elections in

As the viral tsunami waits to arrive

- Afsan Chowdhury -

Bangladesh may have given priority to economics over health in its intent to relax the sort of a serious lockdown. It was never very strict in the first place and except for the first day, it was not taken too seriously either by the imposers or the imposed upon.  Police

Border with India shut for two weeks

- Times Report -

Bangladesh has shut its border with India for any kind of movement except cargoes for two weeks to contain the spread of the Covid-19. India is going through a terrible second wave of Covid-19. Lack of hospitals, oxygen cylinders and healthcare has brought the nation to its knees. So, to limit Covid-19