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.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended heartiest felicitations to Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of her 74th birthday, to be celebrated tomorrow.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made a strong case for India’s inclusion as a permanent member of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and asked how long will his country be “kept out of the decision-making structures” of the global body.

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today interrogated Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone in Mumbai as the probe into the Bollywood-drugs nexus widened.

India announces local elections involving millions of voters in the densely packed Bihar state even as it remains set to overtake the United States by next month as the world’s worst-affected nation by Covid-19 pandemic.

Thousands of farmers in India blocked roads and railway tracks today in a protest against new legislation that they say could pave the way for the government to stop buying grain at guaranteed prices, leaving them at the mercy of private buyers.

India’s Border Security Force has seized 100kg of Hilsa -- worth Rs 2 lakh -- while the consignment was allegedly being smuggled from Bangladesh into India through Petrapole integrated check-post in West Bengal.

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is investigating the alleged Bollywood-drug nexus, may summon actor Deepika Padukone, NCB sources have said.

Former President of India’s Congress party Rahul Gandhi has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “destroying the web of relationships” that his party had cultivated over the years with India’s neighbouring countries.

India’s federal anti-corruption agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), today conducted searches at 13 locations spread across five cities, including Kolkata, and booked a serving BSF officer in connection with cattle smuggling along the border with Bangladesh.

Saudi Arabia said today that it would start allowing pilgrims to perform Umrah gradually, taking necessary precautions.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told the United Nations General Assembly today that Beijing has “no intention to fight either a cold war or a hot one with any country,” as tensions grow between China and the United States.

Bangladesh today sent medicine and other medical supplies to Nepal to help the South Asian nation under the Saarc Covid-19 emergency fund as a gesture of friendship.

Bangladesh has sought immediate action from the UN Security Council to ensure that Myanmar refrains from escalating the situation targeting the Rohingyas under the pretext of security operations, which may lead to a further influx of Myanmar nationals into Bangladesh.

Police in India’s capital city says they had arrested a local freelance journalist on allegations he was passing “sensitive information” to Chinese intelligence officers

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Director General (DG) Rakesh Asthana said they are working out a strategy to bring down the killings in India-Bangladesh border areas to zero.

India and Japan are looking at working together in countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.

Officials of India’s External Affairs and Commerce Ministries today held discussions for the second successive day on how to ensure that trucks carrying onions from India and stranded at the border with Bangladesh are allowed to cross into that country.

The Indian government is likely to grant its authorities a special permission to export 25,000 tonnes of onion to Bangladesh.