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EAM Jaishankar invites Bangladesh counterpart Khalilur Rahman to visit India| India News

EAM Jaishankar invites Bangladesh counterpart Khalilur Rahman to visit India| India News

Indian high commissioner Pranay Verma met Bangladesh’s new foreign minister Khalilur Rahman in Dhaka on Sunday and extended an invitation from external affairs minister S Jaishankar to visit India at an early date, reflecting New Delhi’s efforts to rebuild bilateral ties. Indian high commissioner to Dhaka, Pranay Verma, with Bangladesh foreign minister Khalilur Rahman in Dhaka on Sunday. (X) The move came less than a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to his Bangladeshi counterpart Tarique Rahman to visit India. India has signalled its intention to repair relations, which had fallen to their lowest point in decades under the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus. During the meeting with Khalilur Rahman, Verma expressed the Indian government’s “readiness to work closely with the new government of Bangladesh to further advance bilateral cooperation”, according to a readout from the foreign ministry in Dhaka. Verma extended Jaishankar’s invitation to Khalilur Rahman “to undertake an official visit to New Delhi at an early date”, the readout said. Khalilur Rahman “indicated Bangladesh’s intent to build a forward looking and …

Why Bangladesh elections are big part of India’s neighbourhood watch| India News

Why Bangladesh elections are big part of India’s neighbourhood watch| India News

India is watching keenly while Bangladesh stands at a crossroads as it goes to poll on February 12, the first national vote since the student-led uprising that swept former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from office in August 2024. A supporter stands on a rickshaw as he holds a national flag of Bangladesh (right) and that of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party during an election rally of BNP chairman Tarique Rahman, the son of former PM Khaleda Zia, ahead of the national election, in Dhaka. (Anupam Nath/AP Photo) The scale of the elections — being conducted under an interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus — is formidable by numbers alone. Nearly 13 crore or 130 million Bangladeshis are registered to cast ballots at close to 43,000 polling stations across the country. Let’s come come back to the immediate context in a bit. First, why India is so keenly invested in the Bangladesh political situation: The India-Bangladesh relationship has its roots in the bloody partition of British India in 1947. The Muslim-majority eastern region of Bengal …

S Jaishankar On Bangladesh Ties

New Delhi: The political churn in Bangladesh is that country’s “internal matter” but India is keen to continue what was a stable relationship, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar told NDTV Tuesday afternoon, underlining the maxim that neighbouring nations are “dependent on each other”. In a wide-ranging interview Mr Jaishankar touched on Russia’s war on Ukraine and Delhi’s potential peacemaker role in that conflict, as well as Iran leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s remark, the war in Gaza, and a flurry of foreign visits in the first 100 days of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term. “What happens is their internal matter. Bangladesh is our neighbour and the relationship, on our part, is something we want to keep stable. We have good trade… our people-to-people ties are good… I want to keep the relationship that way,” Mr Jaishankar said on the Bangladesh crisis. Bangladesh battled civil unrest and violence last month – the result of a student-led movement against quota in government jobs – that forced then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. Ms Hasina fled Dhaka in …