India has inched closer to settling a long-simmering border dispute with Bangladesh, possibly signalling a softer line from nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi than when he was in opposition. On Monday, a parliamentary committee urged the government to table a constitutional amendment that would pave the way for a land swap deal that Bangladesh and […]

Disputed borders are both a cause and a symptom of tensions between big neighbours in South Asia. When the colonial power, Britain, withdrew from India it left a dangerous legacy of carelessly or arbitrarily drawn borders. Tensions between India and China flare on occasion, especially along India’s far north-eastern border, along the state of Arunachal […]

Indian newspapers see Prime Minister Narendra Modi as coming out in favour of a controversial land swap with Bangladesh to stem immigration, in a tough speech in the northeastern state of Assam. Under a deal signed by Mr Modi’s predecessor, Manmohan Singh, in 2011, the two countries would simplify their tortuous border, exchanging more than […]

Shared by Meher Inayat Islamabad: Laila Kiran and Anila Shaheen, students of Asian University for Women, Bangladesh, are the first female cyclists from Gilgit Baltistan to complete 200 kilometers ride during a recently held event in Bangladesh. The two, along with others, traveled from Chittagong city to Cox’s Bazaar during the “Bangladesh Discovery Ride 2014”. Around 84 participants […]