Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid her last respects to former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee before his funeral.

Twenty-nine Indian sailors -- stranded in Bangladesh due to coronavirus outbreak -- left Dhaka on a special flight of Novoair today.

Bangladesh and India want to launch a travel air bubble without any delay and the issue will be discussed in New Delhi during a virtual meeting of the next Joint Consultative Commission (JCC), officials have said.

Behind all the accolades (Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award and epithets like elder statesman) for Pranab Mukherjee lies is his realisation that he was in the final analysis a Bengali to the core. “Aami Bangalee chhilam, achhi, o thakbo” he once said at a felicitation function in Kolkata.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has expressed deep condolence at the death of former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led an outpouring of condolence and rich tributes to former president Pranab Mukherjee, who died in New Delhi today, saying that he left an indelible mark on the politics and development of the country.

Pranab Mukherjee, the first Bengali to hold India’s highest constitutional post of President and one of the country's most respected politicians, has died after battling various ailments for 20 days.

An Indian national was arrested for trying to smuggle mobile phones into Bangladesh through the Petrapole integrated check-post in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, the Border Security Force (BSF) has said.

An Indian court has ordered the release of 25 Bangladeshi fishermen, who were detained by Assam police for violating their tourist visa conditions.

South Korea has reported 323 new cases of the coronavirus as health officials prepare to tighten distancing restrictions in the greater capital area.

India’s Border Security Force (BSF) members have apprehended two Indian nationals while they were trying to go to Bangladesh illegally.

India today said the visit by its Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla was “useful” in discussing specific initiatives in several key areas of mutual interest and also reflected the priority India accords to Bangladesh as part of its neighbourhood first policy.

India’s top opposition leader Sonia Gandhi was today urged by Congress party’s highest decision-making forum to stay on as the party's interim president and to bring about necessary changes to strengthen the organisation.

Congress’ interim President Sonia Gandhi today offered to quit and asked the party’s top decision-making body to start the process of looking for her replacement following a demand by more than 20 senior leaders for leadership change.

India has assured Bangladesh that it will carry out an investigation into why border killings were taking place despite the Indian government’s decision to bring those down to zero, Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen said.

After years of denial, the Pakistan government has finally revealed that the fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is sheltered in the country.

The Maldivian Ministry of Economic Development has extended the ban on bringing in new Bangladeshi labourers to Maldives for a period of one year.

Five hundred Indian nationals who were stranded for nearly five months due to coronavirus outbreak left Bangladesh through Benapole land port -- between yesterday morning and this noon.

The issues of Teesta river water-sharing, Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) were not raised during Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Monday, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs has said.

India proposes to enter into separate air bubble pacts with Bangladesh and four other South Asian countries to resume international flights, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said today.