One of the three Chinese Navy ships, a Type 054A guided-missile frigate, Da Qing, also took part in the bilateral "Sea Guardian" exercise with the Pakistan Navy earlier this year.

During his visit, Jaishankar and the King of Bhutan lit butter lamps at a prayer ceremony held at Tashichhodzong to mark Prime Minister Modi's birthday.

"The Congress and our party are different legally but if you look at the thought, then we are the same," NCP (SP) leader Rohit Pawar said

Nearly 4,000 metric tonnes (MT) or 47 lakh litres of diesel have arrived at the Parbatipur Receiving Terminal Depot in Dinajpur from India through the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline.

Jaishankar's visit is expected to provide an opportunity for India and Bhutan to review their bilateral relationship and discuss areas of continued cooperation during his meetings with the Bhutanese leadership.

The bilateral with India is unlikely to happen before his trip to New York on 21st September for the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

"India is just another country that we want a good working relationship with, a good bilateral relationship with," Bangladesh's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir said.

India's focus remains on people-to-people ties even as the Bangladesh Government maintains that the issue of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is a key focus of the relationship.

This is the first time that the Indian High Commissioner has met the President of Bangladesh.

The Inter-Governmental Railway Meeting is an annual bilateral forum where railway authorities and ministry representatives from both countries meet to discuss and decide on cross-border train operations, rail infrastructure projects and freight transit.

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.