The Indian government has issued a fresh advisory to states on mandatory action in cases of crimes against women saying that probe into rape cases must be completed within two months.

The Indian High Commission in Bangladesh has announced resumption of online visa services for Bangladesh citizens.

Thailand hopes to sign a Free Trade Agreement with Bangladesh soon, outgoing Thai Ambassador to Bangladesh Arunrung Phothong Humphreys has said.

The World Bank in a report has estimated that Bangladesh will do better than its South Asian neighbours in GDP growth for the fiscal year 2019-20.

India today conveyed support for ensuring safe, sustainable and speedy repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh and announced trade concessions to Myanmar as India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and Army Chief Gen M M Naravane wrapped up their two-day visit to the South East Asian country.

Indian High Commissioner-designate to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami has visited Tripura and a number of connectivity projects between India and Bangladesh before his scheduled arrival in Dhaka tomorrow.

India’s death toll from the novel coronavirus rises past 100,000, only the third country in the world to reach that bleak milestone, after the United States and Brazil, and its epidemic shows no sign of abating.

Repatriation of Rohingya refugees and the threat posed by Pakistan-based terror groups that are allegedly trying to infiltrate Rohingya in camps in Bangladesh are likely to be among the issues Indian Army Chief Gen MM Naravane and the country’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will discuss during their one-day visit to Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital.

A medical board of India’s top state-owned hospital All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi today ruled out murder in the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, and said it was "a case of hanging and death by suicide”.

Military and security expert Dr M Sakhawat Hossain (SIPG, NSU) tells The Daily Star

Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the number of deaths from the disease is due to cross 100,000 imminently. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only to the number in the United States.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been arrested by the police on Thursday and taken to the police station while they were on their way to Hathras to meet the family of a gang rape victim.

About three decades after the 16th century Babri mosque was razed, a special court in India today acquitted all the 32 people, including Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, in the case saying “there is no conclusive and enough proof” against the accused.

Outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das today made a farewell call on Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at state guesthouse Padma in Dhaka.

Kuwait’s new emir takes the oath of office in parliament today as the country prepares to lay to rest late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah who helped steer the Gulf state through some of the Middle East’s most turbulent decades.

India has agreed to hold ministerial level Joint River Commission (JRC) meeting at the soonest possible time to resolve the outstanding issues involving water-sharing of the common rivers.

The documentary “Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale”, on the life and works of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was screened at the Bangladesh High Commission in Brunei today, marking the PM’s 74th birthday.

India has approved the acquisition of military equipment, including an anti-airfield weapon and assault rifles, from the United States at an approximate cost of Rs 2,290 crore.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will hold a virtual meeting in December.

Sri Lanka has shipped back to Britain 21 container-loads of waste that the government said was brought into the island in violation of international laws governing the shipping of hazardous material.