Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today suggested further integrating economies of Bangladesh and India to consolidate the global and regional value chains.

Bangladesh and India signed seven memorandum of understanding (MoUs) on cooperation in seven sectors during a virtual summit today.

Eminent researcher of Bangla folk culture and writer Sudhir Chakravarti died in a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 86 years old.

Bangladesh and India are expected to ink nine Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to hold talks with her counterpart Narendra Modi on Thursday, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said in Dhaka today.

For over six years, 38-year-old Wuhan restaurant owner Lai Yun started most days the same way - with a trip to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, just ten minutes walk from his house.

After a hiatus of 55 years, the rail link between Chilahati in Bangladesh and Haldibari in West Bengal state of India is all set to reopen on December 17 when prime ministers of the two countries hold a virtual bilateral summit and inaugurate the key connectivity between India and Bangladesh.

China’s exports and imports are expected to rise at a faster pace in November, helped by strong demand and coronavirus-related disruptions at factories in other countries, a Reuters poll showed today.

India has rejected the references to recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir in resolutions adopted by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation at its meeting in Niger as “factually incorrect, gratuitous and unwarranted”.

The Serum Institute of India, which is testing and manufacturing Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, tonight responded to "malicious and misconceived" allegations by preparing a Rs 100 crore defamation suit against a 40-year-old coronavirus vaccine trial participant who claimed to have suffered a "virtual neurological breakdown" after being administered a dose.

Myanmar should immediately schedule by-elections in areas where the Union Election Commission (UEC) cancelled the November 8 polls, and ensure the right to vote for all eligible persons, including Rohingya and others disenfranchised under discriminatory laws, said Fortify Rights yesterday.

Four Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) are likely to be signed during the virtual meeting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina with her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi next month.

India has said it is keen to work with Bangladesh on defence hardware platforms like Akash missile, radars, mortars, artillery guns and ammunitions and invited investments from its eastern neighbour in two key Indian defence industrial corridors.

India today summoned the Charge d’Affaires of Pakistan’s High Commission in New Delhi and lodged a strong protest over “unprovoked ceasefire violations by Pakistani forces” on multiple sectors along the de facto border in Jammu yesterday, resulting in the death of four civilians and serious injuries to 19 others.

Authorities in Pakistan's most populous province on Saturday banned an outdated medical procedure in which rape victims are subjected to an invasive physical examination.

Bangladesh and India will chart out plans to take the "rock-solid and historic" Dhaka-Delhi relations to the next level, expanding areas of cooperation between the two countries with a number of engagements in December, officials say.

At least 10 civilians and five security personnel were killed in cross-border shelling between India and Pakistan on Friday, in one of this year’s deadliest days along the heavily militarised frontier separating the nuclear-armed rivals, officials said.

Aung San Suu Kyi's ruling party secured an absolute majority in Myanmar's election, official results showed on Friday, in a poll disputed by the military-aligned opposition and criticised by rights groups.

The United States has said it looks forward to continuing to work with Myanmar’s new government to foster respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms of all.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today expressed optimism over the resumption of talks on Rohingya repatriation using a tripartite mechanism after the formation of a new government in Myanmar.

Senior military commanders of India and China have agreed to ensure their frontline troops exercise restraint and avoid misunderstanding and miscalculation at the Line of Control in the western Himalayas.