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Bangladesh map controversy: Bangladesh's interim chief, Muhammad Yunus, has found himself at the centre of a fresh diplomatic storm after gifting a controversial artwork to Pakistan's Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, during the latter's visit to Dhaka over the weekend. According to a report by CNN-News18, the artwork titled "Art of Triumph: Bangladesh's New Dawn" depicted a distorted map of Bangladesh that included India's northeastern states -- Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh -- within its borders. The image, shared on Yunus's official X account, showed him presenting the gift to General Mirza, triggering immediate backlash.
IMAGE: India are scheduled to tour Bangladesh for a white-ball series in August. Photograph: Screengrab/X The India tour of Bangladesh, which was scheduled to be held in August, is likely to be cancelled because of the situation prevailing in the country over the last few months, sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said. India is supposed to play a three-match ODI series from August 17, which will then be followed by a three-match T20I series, which will begin from August 26. Speaking about the India tour of Bangladesh, a BCCI source told ANI, "India tour of Banglade ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): The India tour of Bangladesh, which was scheduled to take place in August, is likely to be cancelled because of the situation prevailing in the country over the last few months, as per sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Also Read | Who Is The Current WWE Universal Champion? Does The Title Still Exist?. India is supposed to play a three-match ODI series from August 17, which will then be followed by a three-match T20I series, which will begin from August 26. Speaking about the India tour of Bangladesh, a BCCI source told ANI, "India ...Read More >
New Delhi: A major row has erupted after Muhammad Yunus presented a book to a visiting Pakistani general with a map of India that shows the northeastern states as part of Bangladesh. This took place during the visit of Pakistan's joint chiefs of staff committee chairperson, General Sahir Shamshad Mirza, to Dhaka over the weekend. The meeting came amid a recent thaw in ties between Pakistan and Bangladesh. This policy shift took place after the ouster of former Bangladeshi prime minister Sk Hasina from the country in August 2024. Yunus took over as head of an interim government within days. S ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): The Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs will hold a meeting on Friday. During the meeting, the committee will record evidence of experts/non-official witnesses in connection with the examination of the subject 'Future of India-Bangladesh Relationship'. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has been the chairperson of the Committee of the External Affairs since September 2024. India has strongly condemned the demolition of a Durga temple in Dhaka, criticising the role of the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in allowing the destruction and projectin ...Read More >
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], July 18 (ANI): Reacting to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announcement of free electricity up to 125 units, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said that whatever schemes the Congress party is giving in Karnataka, the entire country is following it. Speaking to the media, Shivakumar emphasised that in the entire country, Congress Party has stood for the welfare of the people. After independence, till today, whenever the Congress Party is in power, either in the Central or state government, it has given various schemes, such as pension, woman and ch ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The US embassy in India has warned that "committing assault, theft, or burglary in the United States won't just cause you legal issues -- it could lead to your visa being revoked and make you ineligible for future US visas". The warning was issued days after a video of an Indian woman who tried to leave a store with a cart full of items without paying went viral. This also prompted the embassy to say, "The US values law and order and expects foreign visitors to follow all US laws."Responding to queries on the issue, the ministry of external affairs said that "whether a person is liv ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The BJP rushed to the defence of the state government over its decision to introduce Hindi as an optional language for Classes 1 to 5 after the Thackeray cousins announced their decision to hold a joint morcha against "imposition" of Hindi in state schools.CM Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said Marathi is compulsory, Hindi is optional. "Basically, students can learn any Indian language. We have accepted the three-language policy. When NE was introduced, the Uddhav Thackeray govt was in office. An 18-member committee was set up to study the policy, and in 2021 the Thackeray govt accepted i ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 29 : India has imposed port restrictions on the import of jute and several of ... New Delhi [India], June 29 : India has imposed port restrictions on the import of jute and several of its derivatives from Bangladesh, with immediate effect, an official from Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said. The restriction have been put on flax tow and waste (including yarn waste and garnetted stock); jute and other textile bast fibers, raw or retted; jute (excluding flax, true hemp and ramie); single flax yarn; single yarn of jute or of other textile bast fibers; multi ...Read More >
'Greater Bangladesh' is a concept championed by Dhaka-based Islamist outfit "Sultanat-e-Bangla". This map of Bangladesh includes India's entire Northeast region, West Bengal, and parts of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, as well as Myanmar's Arakan state. The distorted map first surfaced in April 2025 after it was displayed at an exhibition at the University of Dhaka held on Pohela Baishakh, the Bengali New Year in April. Also Read | S Jaishankar says Islamist group 'Saltanat-e-Bangla', backed by Turk ...Read More >
Guwahati, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday strongly condemned repeated remarks emanating from Bangladesh suggesting that India's northeastern states should be separated and merged with the neighbouring country, terming them "irresponsible and dangerous" and asserting that India would not remain silent on the issue. Reacting to comments made by Hasnat Abdullah, a senior leader of Bangladesh's newly formed National Citizen Party (NCP), Sarma said a section of leaders across the border has, over the past year, consistently made provocative statements ta ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): The India tour of Bangladesh, which was scheduled to take place in August, is likely to be cancelled because of the situation prevailing in the country over the last few months, as per sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). India is supposed to play a three-match ODI series from August 17, which will then be followed by a three-match T20I series, which will begin from August 26. Speaking about the India tour of Bangladesh, a BCCI source told ANI, 'India tour of Bangladesh is likely to be called off as the government has advised the BCCI ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 12 (PTI) The West Bengal unit of the BJP on Saturday claimed that an "alarming demographic shift" is taking place in the state under "political patronage", and the number of voters has increased by more than 40 per cent in 46 assembly constituencies between 2011 and 2021. In seven of those 46 seats, the increase is over 50 per cent, the party claimed in a post on X. "The dream of turning Bengal into an Islamic state, once crushed by forefathers like Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Ji and warriors like Gopal Patha, still lives on. And this time, Mamata is enabling it with her support," t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): The Standing Committee on External Affairs met on Friday and heard views of experts on 'Future of India-Bangladesh Relationship'. Chairperson of the panel Shashi Tharoor, MP, later said the committee heard insights of 'four first-class experts'.He said the panel was told that the number of Bangladeshis coming to the country has come down. 'You will see our report in the next few weeks... We didn't discuss (the issue of Bangladeshis living in India). But we were told about a figure that the number of Bangladeshis coming to our country has lessened now,' he sa ...Read More >