India Bangladesh Border Agreement

India has nudged Bangladesh to implement a three-year-old agreement that allows it to set up a network of surveillance radars along the coastline of the neighbouring country.

India and Bangladesh have taken a "major decision" to erect a new fence to secure over 250 villages ahead of the present barbed-wire fence along the International Border (IB) to curb cross-border crimes and instill a sense of security among the people living in the area.

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.

While there are no border disputes with Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, such disputes exist with China and Pakistan, Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh said on Thursday.

India and Bangladesh today agreed to share information on terrorists as home secretaries of the two neighbours concluded their talks here reviewing internal security and other cross-border issues.

His name is Jihad Hussein Obama and even more unusual is his story. All of five, "Baby Jihad" defines the fight of thousands of people for the right to live as Indians.

Bangladesh and India will, at one minute past midnight, swap tiny islands of land following a historic border pact in June.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed the Indian community at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.

Thousands living near the India-Bangladesh border celebrated today a historic agreement that will allow them to choose their nationality.

India and Bangladesh on Saturday signed an agreement to simplify their 4,000-km (2,500-mile) border and clarify the identities of 52,000 living in enclaves, over four decades after the neighbours first tried to untangle complex territorial rights set down in 1713.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bangladesh on Saturday to seal a land pact which will finally allow tens of thousands of people living in border enclaves to choose their nationality after decades of stateless limbo.

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.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in Dhaka on Friday, a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day maiden visit to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, which shares border with five Indian states, has strategic importance for India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit would give an unambiguous thrust towards development of good relations between the two neighbours whose destinies are closely interlinked.

As Parliament passed a "landmark" bill to settle the 41-year-old border issue with Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today thanked leaders of all Opposition parties for their support and said a "historic milestone" has been reached in India-Bangladesh ties.

India has nudged Bangladesh to implement a three-year-old agreement that allows it to set up a network of surveillance radars along the coastline of the neighbouring country.

India and Bangladesh have taken a "major decision" to erect a new fence to secure over 250 villages ahead of the present barbed-wire fence along the International Border (IB) to curb cross-border crimes and instill a sense of security among the people living in the area.

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.

While there are no border disputes with Myanmar, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, such disputes exist with China and Pakistan, Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh said on Thursday.

India and Bangladesh today agreed to share information on terrorists as home secretaries of the two neighbours concluded their talks here reviewing internal security and other cross-border issues.

His name is Jihad Hussein Obama and even more unusual is his story. All of five, "Baby Jihad" defines the fight of thousands of people for the right to live as Indians.

Bangladesh and India will, at one minute past midnight, swap tiny islands of land following a historic border pact in June.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed the Indian community at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.

Thousands living near the India-Bangladesh border celebrated today a historic agreement that will allow them to choose their nationality.

India and Bangladesh on Saturday signed an agreement to simplify their 4,000-km (2,500-mile) border and clarify the identities of 52,000 living in enclaves, over four decades after the neighbours first tried to untangle complex territorial rights set down in 1713.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Bangladesh on Saturday to seal a land pact which will finally allow tens of thousands of people living in border enclaves to choose their nationality after decades of stateless limbo.

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.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in Dhaka on Friday, a day ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day maiden visit to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, which shares border with five Indian states, has strategic importance for India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit would give an unambiguous thrust towards development of good relations between the two neighbours whose destinies are closely interlinked.

As Parliament passed a "landmark" bill to settle the 41-year-old border issue with Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today thanked leaders of all Opposition parties for their support and said a "historic milestone" has been reached in India-Bangladesh ties.