New Delhi [India], Aug 14 (ANI): Vikram Kumar Doraiswami, Foreign Service officer of batch 1992, has been appointed India's next High Commissioner to Bangladesh, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced.
Kolkata/Dhaka [India/ Bangladesh], Aug 12 (ANI): Shipping goods from Kolkata to northeastern states is costlier and time-consuming. The 'chicken's neck' or the 22-km wide Siliguri corridor is the only land-based connection to northeastern states of India.
New Delhi [India], August 11 (ANI): The European Union is providing EUR1.65 million in humanitarian aid funding to support those affected by flooding in South Asia, particularly in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Dhaka [Bangladesh], August 11 (ANI/Xinhua): The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh on Tuesday reached 263,503 as nearly 3,000 new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours.
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Aug 10 (ANI): Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced that women's national players will join the second phase of the individual practice session from Monday.
New Delhi [India], Aug 10 (ANI): The Western Railway sent a special parcel train from Gujarat's Kankaria to Bangladesh to transport cloth, dye, and chemicals, the Ministry of Railways said on Monday.
Dhaka [Bangladesh], August 8 (ANI): Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Momen on Saturday expressed condolence to the families of victims of the Air India Express flight that crash-landed at the Kozhikode airport claiming at least 18 lives on Friday.
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Aug 8 (ANI): Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is all set to start training at his alma mater, the BKSP facility in Dhaka district's Savar.
Basirhat (West Bengal) [India], Aug 7 (ANI): The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized silver ornaments from a bike while it was being smuggled to Bangladesh in West Bengal's Kaijuri, BSF South Bengal said.
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Aug 7 (ANI): Bangladesh Cricket Board's (BCB) cricket operations chairman Akram Khan has said that the team's first Test against Sri Lanka could begin in mid-October.
Petrapole (West Bengal) [India], Aug 7 (ANI): The Border Security Force (BSF) apprehended one person for allegedly smuggling 126 kilograms of Hilsha fish to India from Bangladesh through the ICP Petrapole, India-Bangladesh border.