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Indian navy and coastguard personnel were feeding and providing medical attention to a group of 90 Rohingya refugees and three Bangladesh crewmen of a boat that drifted into India's territorial waters on Monday. Humanitarian…

Indian coast guards vessels have reached a boat carrying 90 Rohingya refugees and three Bangladesh crewmen which drifted into India's territorial waters on Monday. Humanitarian groups monitoring the plight of the sea-stranded…

A boat carrying 90 Rohingya refugees and three Bangladesh crewmen have drifted into India's territorial waters on Monday , with calls for immediate rescue mounting from UN agencies and humanitarian groups.The boat has a satphone and the…

(New Delhi distributing millions of jabs to nations near and far to temper Beijing’s influence in region) As India last week announced it would send its neighbours 10 to 20 million doses of Covid-19 ­vaccines for free, a headline…

After a two month delay in starting the fight to control Covid, the Modi government is now focused on not only a mass vaccination program in the country but on pursuit of  vaccine diplomacy to help neighbours combat the deadly virus.The…

A statue of Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was found defaced in the country’s western city of Kushtia on December 5, sparking possibilities of violence in an escalating confrontation between Islamist radicals and the…

A classic case of Western hypocrisy is unfolding over Bangladesh's proposed relocation of some Rohingya refugees to Bhasan Char.Instead of pressurizing Myanmar to take back the Rohingyas and ensuring their safe repatriation , the West and…

Rarely would one find an Indian politician who loved an understatement about himself as the mild-mannered but shrewd Tarun Gogoi, who died Monday at 85, leavng behind his wife, a son and a daughter.One evening in 1994, I reached his…

Myanmar's leading election watchdog has alleged large scale discrepancies in the country's electoral rolls , on the basis of which the polls to both houses of its parliament were held on Sunday. People’s Alliance for Credible Elections…

Indian pay channels, specially those belonging to the Star group, have been blacked out by cable operators in Bangladesh since Nov 4. Users complain that they have paid for these channels but not received their signal because…