Narendra Modi

Bangladesh-India Trade Working Group Meeting Scheduled in New Delhi for October 8-9

Bangladesh and India are set to hold a Joint Working Group meeting on trade in New Delhi on October 8 and 9 as part of efforts to normalise bilateral relations, according to people familiar with the matter.

BRICS nations call for 'maximum restraint' in Middle East war

Members of the 11-nation BRICS group including China, Russia, Iran and India called for calm in the Middle East at a summit in New Delhi on Saturday, overcoming earlier divisions to issue a joint statement. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who joined Russian, Iranian, Indian and other leaders in India'

India Pushes for Tarique Rahman’s New Delhi Visit by Early September

India is urgently seeking to arrange a visit to New Delhi by Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman by the end of this month or within the first week of September, as both sides discuss steps toward fully normalising bilateral relations, according to a report by The Hindu.

Issues can be resolved if two Prime Ministers hold talks: Indian High Commissioner

Indian High Commissioner to Dhaka Dinesh Trivedi on Sunday said many complex problems between Bangladesh and India could be resolved through bilateral discussions, stressing that solutions emerge when both sides remain in dialogue. Trivedi made the remarks while responding to a question from journal

India's education minister resigns after countrywide protests

India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams. "I have sent my resignation letter to the prime minister," Pradhan said in a statement posted on social me

Modi Invites Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to BRICS Summit

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Prime Minister Tarique Rahman to attend the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 12-13 as a special guest, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaid Islam said on Thursday. Speaking to reporters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shama Ob

Student protests keep up pressure on Modi government

Crowds of supporters of India's online "cockroach" movement grew on Wednesday at a New Delhi protest site, while their demands for accountability and reform following examination scandals echoed in rallies across the country. The protests, led by the social media-driven Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) m