Introduction
In a speech before the Indian Parliament in 2007, then Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe introduced the ‘Confluence of Two Seas’, a precursor to Tokyo’s Indo-Pacific policy framework. It referred to the linking of the Pacific and Indian Oceans to make a ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’; Abe named India as an anchor in such a vision.
To be sure, India-Japan relations date back to the decades after the Second World War. Their current partnership is increasingly featured as an important pole in Abe’s book,
Utsukushii kuni e (Towards a Beautiful Country: My Vision for Japan) where he writes that it would not surprise him if “in another decade, Japan–India relations overtake Japan–US and Japan–China ties.”
161 more passengers from UK land in Bangladesh today
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Star Online Report
Star Online Report
Another 161 passengers from the United Kingdom landed in Bangladesh today amid the spread of a new strain of Covid-19 in that country.
Of the passengers, 144 landed in Osmani International Airport of Sylhet by a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. And 17 passengers landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, Nasrin Akter, a doctor at the health desk of HSIA, told The Daily Star.
After health screening, all passengers were allowed to go home as they had Covid-19 negative certificates. But they will have to stay in home quarantine for 14-days, added Dr Nasrin.