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Mamata Banerjee to attend G20 Summit dinner Despite strongly objecting to the use of “Bharat” in the invitation letter from Rashtrapati Bhawan for the G20 Summit dinner, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be attending the event on Saturday night. Sources from the state cabinet said Banerjee has taken the decision to attend the dinner meet after consulting the leader of some of the other constituents of INDIA alliance, who also confirmed their presence at the event. “Another reason why the Chief Mini...
Mamata Banerjee to attend G20 Summit dinner
Mamata Banerjee to attend G20 Summit dinner
Source: IANS
6/09/2023 12:10:30 PM
India to position itself as the 'Voice of Global South' at G20 Summit The New Delhi G20 summit, scheduled to be held between September 9 and 10, is just round the corner and is being highlighted as one of the key achievements of the government in positioning India as the voice of the Global South. After two days of intense deliberations, the G20 Summit will culminate with a New Delhi Declaration, which is expected to outline the main agenda items namely climate change and climate finance, the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs) in poverty alleviati...
India to position itself as the 'Voice of Global South' at G20 Summit
India to position itself as the 'Voice of Global South' at G20 Summit
Source: IANS
3/09/2023 12:51:47 PM
PM Narendra Modi scheduled to attend United Nations General Assembly in September  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend the high-level annual meeting of the UN General Assembly in September, according to the roster of speakers released by the office of the Assembly president. The tentative roster has him speaking on September 22 between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time (12:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. in India on September 23), but it is likely to be changed to a more hospitable time for viewers in India. This will be his second visit to the UN and the US th...
PM Narendra Modi scheduled to attend United Nations General Assembly in September
PM Narendra Modi scheduled to attend United Nations General Assembly in September
Source: IANS
19/07/2023 10:09:02 AM
Adani Group commissions India`s first transnational power project Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani called on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka on Saturday following the full load commencement of power supply to Bangladesh from the Group’s Ultra Super-Critical Thermal Power Plant (USCTPP), in Godda, Jharkhand. The Godda USCTPP, which marks the Adani Group’s entry into transnational power projects, is India’s first commissioned transnational power project where 100 per cent of the generated power is supplied to another nat...
Adani Group commissions India`s first transnational power project
Adani Group commissions India`s first transnational power project
Source: IANS
16/07/2023 8:45:20 AM
India-Bangladesh`s cross-border oil pipeline to open on March 18 Bangladesh's Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momenon has said that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi would jointly open the maiden cross-border oil pipeline on March 18 for diesel transportation to Bangladesh. "The good news is India will send us diesel... the (Oil) pipeline has been completed," he confirmed to IANS on Thursday night, adding that the two premiers will inaugurate the pipeline on March 18 through video conferencing. According ...
India-Bangladesh`s cross-border oil pipeline to open on March 18
India-Bangladesh`s cross-border oil pipeline to open on March 18
Source: IANS
10/03/2023 3:08:38 PM
Ex-Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb urges government to operationalise Feni bridge linking Bangladesh BJP Rajya Sabha member and former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday urged the government to operationalise the double-lane Feni bridge, which was jointly inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina on March 9 last year. Speaking in the upper house of the Parliament, he said that the bridge would facilitate the easy connectivity to utilise Bangladesh's Chittagong sea port to boost trade and economy between the country and nor...
Ex-Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb urges government to operationalise Feni bridge linking Bangladesh
Ex-Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb urges government to operationalise Feni bridge linking Bangladesh
Source: IANS
21/12/2022 12:18:18 PM
Government fulfilled electricty promise, says Bangladesh Prime Minsiter Sheikh Hasina Bangladesh Prime Minsiter Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that her government has delivered on the promise to provide electricity connection to every household. Addressing a discussion at Krishibid Institution here, she said: " Though the production cost of electricty is higher, the government provides it at subsidised rates... But it will not be possible to provide electricity at lower rates due to global recession and increase of price of gas in the international market." "...
Government fulfilled electricty promise, says Bangladesh Prime Minsiter Sheikh Hasina
Government fulfilled electricty promise, says Bangladesh Prime Minsiter Sheikh Hasina
Source: IANS
18/12/2022 5:41:58 PM
Hasina unveils vision to build `Smart Bangladesh` by 2041 Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday unveiled her government's vision to build a "Smart Bangladesh" by 2041. "We'll make Bangladesh a developed country by 2041, and that Bangladesh will be a Smart Bangladesh," she was quoted as saying by Bangladeshi news agency UNB, reports Xinhua news agency. The Prime Minister made the remarks when attending the inaugural programme of Digital Bangladesh Day 2022. Hasina also said her government considers sm...
Hasina unveils vision to build `Smart Bangladesh` by 2041
Hasina unveils vision to build `Smart Bangladesh` by 2041
Source: IANS
13/12/2022 10:53:16 AM
Bangladesh seeks India`s cooperation on Rohingya, energy sector issues Bangladesh's Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury sought India's cooperation on issues pertaining to the Rohingya and the energy sector. Chaudhury mentioned that India gave shelter and all kinds of support to the Bangladeshi refugees during the Great War of Liberation, which the people of her country remember with due respect. She further asked for support for the peaceful repatriation of the forcibly displaced Rohingyas to their homeland - Myanmar. The Speaker m...
Bangladesh seeks India`s cooperation on Rohingya, energy sector issues
Bangladesh seeks India`s cooperation on Rohingya, energy sector issues
Source: IANS
12/12/2022 3:48:33 PM
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hopes to import oil from India by 2023 via proposed pipeline Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed hope to import oil from India by 2023 through a proposed pipeline project. She made the remarks on Sunday during a meeting with Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly, Biswajit Daimary at her official Ganabhaban residence in Dhaka. The Speaker led a four-member delegation which is part of a team of 32 MLAs from the northeast visiting Bangladesh. The 130-km India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL) project aims to import oil prod...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hopes to import oil from India by 2023 via proposed pipeline
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hopes to import oil from India by 2023 via proposed pipeline
Source: IANS
21/11/2022 10:53:14 AM
India, Bangladesh ink seven pacts India and Bangladesh signed seven Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) in New Delhi on Tuesday aimed at boosting ties between the two countries. The MoUs, signed after delegation level talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his visiting Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina, are related to water sharing, railways, space, science and judiciary. Prime Minister Modi said that the trade between the two countries is rapidly increasing, adding that: "We have decided to extend cooper...
India, Bangladesh ink seven pacts
India, Bangladesh ink seven pacts
Source: IANS
7/09/2022 12:49:55 PM
India to start economic partnership talks with Bangladesh India will start talks on a comprehensive economic partnership agreement (CEPA) with Bangladesh, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday, aiming to finalize it when the South Asian nation graduates to become a developing country by 2026. Bangladesh is India's largest development partner and the largest regional trade partner, Modi said after talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina, who is on a four-day visit to India. "We also decided to increase cooper...
India to start economic partnership talks with Bangladesh
India to start economic partnership talks with Bangladesh
Source: Reuters
6/09/2022 2:39:59 PM
Docudrama 'Hasina: A Daughter's Tale' is strong inspiration for daughters Among the only two survivors in the family of Bangladesh's Father of the Nation that was mercilessly wiped out, a fate they escaped by being abroad, and unable to return home for another six years, Sheikh Hasina faced plenty of vicissitudes in her life, including terrorist attacks, but never faltered in her dream of rebuilding and developing her motherland. How Sheikh Hasina, the elder daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, established herself as a saviour, turning her torrent ...
Docudrama 'Hasina: A Daughter's Tale' is strong inspiration for daughters
Docudrama 'Hasina: A Daughter's Tale' is strong inspiration for daughters
Source: IANS
19/05/2022 2:14:43 PM