19 Jan, 2025 3:09 AM
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) Highlighting the deep cultural, linguistic, historical and civilisational bonds between the people of India and Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has welcomed the naming of the iconic Cultural Center in Jaffna built with Indian assistance, as 'Thiruvalluvar Cultural Center' in honour of Tamil philosopher, poet and thinker Thiruvalluvar.
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18 Jan, 2025 7:34 PM
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) Trouble erupted once again along the India-Bangladesh border at Sukhdevpur in West Bengal's Malda district on Saturday after Bangladeshi villagers allegedly entered Indian territory, destroyed crops and chopped down trees in a mango orchard.
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18 Jan, 2025 4:58 PM
Agartala, Jan 18 (IANS) The Tripura government will soon take up with the Central government the issue of the embankment, being constructed unilaterally by the Bangladesh government on its land as it might endanger the state's Unakoti district town Kailashahar and border villages during monsoon, officials said on Saturday.
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15 Jan, 2025 11:33 PM
New Delhi/Agartala, Jan 15 (IANS) A Delhi based rights body -- Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) – strongly criticised the attack on the Adivasi students injuring 11 and two of them critically by the Islamic Chhatra Shibir students in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Wednesday.
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13 Jan, 2025 11:59 PM
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) Five Bangladeshi infiltrators, who had been residing at Sonarpur in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district for the last one year since they illegally crossed the border, were arrested on Monday, police said.
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13 Jan, 2025 11:37 PM
Agartala, Jan 13 (IANS) A total of 2,815 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in Tripura during the past three years for their illegal entry into India and 1,746 of them deported to their country so far, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha told the Assembly on Monday.
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13 Jan, 2025 10:23 PM
Agartala, Jan 13 (IANS) Expressing concern, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Monday said that drugs smuggled from Myanmar to his state through neighbouring Assam and cultivation of ganja (marijuana) are creating a parallel economy in the northeastern state.
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12 Jan, 2025 11:54 PM
Aizawl, Jan 12 (IANS) Assam Rifles and Mizoram Police apprehended two Myanmar nationals attempting to smuggle a significant amount of foreign currency, totalling the equivalent of over Rs 1.48 crore in Mizoram’s Siaha District, officials said on Sunday.
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12 Jan, 2025 9:18 PM
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The India-Nepal Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) meeting on trade transit and cooperation to combat unauthorised trade in Kathmandu will further fortify the economic and commercial linkages between the two countries, it was announced on Sunday.
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11 Jan, 2025 10:36 PM
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) The future of regional cooperation in South Asia is currently at a pivotal juncture, shaped by its historical context. While initiatives such as the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) have largely failed to achieve the anticipated pan-regional free trade, another important forum, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), risks facing a similar fate unless significant intervention occurs from its largest member states, namely India and Bangladesh.
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