The Bangladesh Government has also extended the official Durga Puja holiday to three days in response to longstanding demands from the Hindu community

India's High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dinesh Trivedi, held a courtesy meeting with Bangladesh's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir.

The event, supported by Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang, aims to become an annual festival rotating across districts.

At least 32 houses and 4 government quarters have been damaged in the landslides and flash floods triggered by intense monsoon rainfall.

Sahil Wakode, from Maharashtra's Yavatmal, had complained to his parents that he was being subjected to casteist slurs and being discriminated against.

Detainees' telephones had been forensically examined and the suspects had been interrogated after being taken to a nearby police station.

The term of the current Bangladesh High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah, ends next month.

Family offices and funds can invest in almost anything, from stocks and property to digital assets and commodities, and there are no restrictions on the profile of investors who can invest with them.

Heightened security measures came into force after several incidents of crude bomb explosions and buses being set on fire were reported on Friday.

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.