Bangladesh Land Exchange

Thousands will vote for the first time as Indians in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district on May 5. These voters live in over 50 enclaves India got in exchange from Bangladesh on July 31, 2015 and became Indian citizens the same day, after decades of not being counted on either side.

Bangladesh and India prepared on Friday to swap tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for nearly 70 years.

Ending more than four decades of wait, India and Bangladesh will start the exchange of 162 adversely-held enclaves from tomorrow, marking the start of implementation of their landmark Land Boundary Agreement (LBA).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina today witnessed the exchange of instrument of ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement between the two countries in Dhaka. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also present.

The cabinet today cleared the bill to operationalise the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh. The bill is expected to come up in Rajya Sabha tomorrow. The bill paves the way for land exchange with Bangladesh in four states -- West Bengal, Tripura and Meghalaya and Assam.

In a major step forward to resolve the land boundary issue, India and Bangladesh today exchanged maps of demarcated stretches, as New Delhi said it was ready to release USD 50 million out of a USD 200 million credit line to Dhaka.

Thousands will vote for the first time as Indians in West Bengal's Cooch Behar district on May 5. These voters live in over 50 enclaves India got in exchange from Bangladesh on July 31, 2015 and became Indian citizens the same day, after decades of not being counted on either side.

Bangladesh and India prepared on Friday to swap tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for nearly 70 years.

Ending more than four decades of wait, India and Bangladesh will start the exchange of 162 adversely-held enclaves from tomorrow, marking the start of implementation of their landmark Land Boundary Agreement (LBA).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina today witnessed the exchange of instrument of ratification of the Land Boundary Agreement between the two countries in Dhaka. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also present.

The cabinet today cleared the bill to operationalise the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh. The bill is expected to come up in Rajya Sabha tomorrow. The bill paves the way for land exchange with Bangladesh in four states -- West Bengal, Tripura and Meghalaya and Assam.

In a major step forward to resolve the land boundary issue, India and Bangladesh today exchanged maps of demarcated stretches, as New Delhi said it was ready to release USD 50 million out of a USD 200 million credit line to Dhaka.