The process of restarting the Maitree, Mitali and Bandhan Express trains operating between India and Bangladesh will be on the agenda at the meeting this time.

With memories of the recent Nepal glacier collapse still fresh and the 2023 Teesta flash flood, even minor river blockages are quickly triggering panic and speculation on social media.

The action follows an earlier directive from the Bombay High Court, which ordered bakeries across Maharashtra to stop using coal or wood-fired ovens and switch to cleaner options such as LPG, piped gas or electric ovens.

Ritesh Hange, a friend of Chetan Chaudhary, was allegedly involved in planning the murder committed at the Lohagad Fort on June 18, when victim Ketan Agarwal was on a trekking trip with fiancée Siya Goyal.

The accident left Nagesh with a severe spinal injury. He is now confined to a bed or a wheelchair, his life forever divided into a "before" and "after" that Dahi Handi.

A national-level woman wrestler and two of her three children have died after they allegedly jumped into a 100-foot gorge from the historic Naldurg Fort in Maharashtra's Dharashiv district, police said.

The four-laning project begins near Galgalia and ends at Bagdogra, where the highway merges with the National Highway 27 near the Bagdogra Airport, which is also soon going to have a brand-new passenger terminal designed to handle 3,000 peak-hour passengers.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Hindu Religious Welfare Trust jointly organised the programme.

The BGB said the school will mark a new milestone in technology-driven border security, advanced surveillance, and modern operational capability.

Commenting on the proposed visit of Bangladesh PM to India, Humayun Kabir said, "No date has been set yet but at some conducive point, of course there will be a visit on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interest and the availability of time of the PMs of both countries, we will set a date."

"The very people who feed us themselves too often struggle to maintain a decent living. Something does not add up," Bhutan Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Topgay said at the first Global Conscious Food Systems Summit in Bhutan.

Bangladesh is now closer to formal negotiations with China over a possible purchase of J-10CE fighter jets and attack helicopters

But given the reluctance of China to share data on rivers and waterflow in the Tibet region, calls are growing for more transparency and sharing of data to prevent loss of lives during natural disasters like a glacier collapse or GLOF.

Sources tell NDTV that conversations on Bangladesh joining the Mecca Pact did come up in the discussions.

Voices in Nepal have questioned that even when the border facilities at the Rasuwagadhi-Gyirong crossing and Gyirong port were hit, warnings could have been issued to save lives downstream.

This arrangement will make it possible for passengers to use Air India to seamlessly travel to Paro via Delhi from across Air India's international network.

During an hour-long meeting at the VVIP lounge of the airport, King Khesar conveyed his sincere congratulations and best wishes to Alamgir on assuming office as president.

Red panda cubs Nuba and Numa born in Sikkim show healthy growth after seven-year breeding gap

India has made it clear that it does not consider Bangladesh's sovereignty any less important and pitched for working on that footing.

The funeral of Purja, a Nepal-born former British Gurkha soldier widely known as Nims Dai, is scheduled to be held on August 26 at Milton Abbey in Blandford Forum, southwest England.

Bangladesh and India have discussed reopening closed border haats (markets), making land ports fully operational and withdrawing the existing restriction on yarn imports through land routes as part of efforts to strengthen bilateral trade relations.

The swearing-in ceremony took place at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban, the official residence of the president of Bangladesh.

This gives a new template to Bangladesh's foreign policy at a time when there have been strains over a Sheikh Hasina event in New Delhi even as both countries are working towards a reset in ties.

Permits to popular tourist sites likely to get simpler as the proposed system would bring permit applications for several destinations.