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Over the last decade, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been widely known in Bangladesh for her last-minute opposition to the Teesta water-sharing deal that could not be signed during the then Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh s visit to Dhaka in 2011.
Now, upon any Indian dignitary s visit to Dhaka, the most prominent question is when the Teesta deal will be signed.
The response is always that it depends on West Bengal, as the Indian constitution guarantees the state s right to say on international agreements on transboundary rivers .
As India s ruling party BJP conducted a major campaign spree in West Bengal before the polls, it had indicated the signing of the deal if BJP won the polls.
DHAKA: A day after Myanmar’s military overthrow of the government, Rohingya leaders said on Tuesday they fear the move could “further delay” efforts to repatriate the refugees in Bangladesh to their homeland in Rakhine.
The Myanmar military, locally known as Tatmadaw, seized power in the early hours of Monday and detained its the country’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and other associates.
The coup followed a landslide victory of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) in the general elections in November last year.
The army rejected the results, citing poll irregularities and fraud. During the takeover on Monday, army chief Gen. Min Aung Hlaing declared a state of emergency for a year in the country.
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Bangladesh received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines – a gift from the Indian government – after Chinese state-owned Sinovac late last year withdrew from trials in the country following Dhaka’s refusal to co-fund phase-three tests for its vaccine.
Bangladesh is preparing to begin inoculations in the first week of February after receiving India’s gift of 2 million doses of the Covishield vaccine, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said. The vaccine was developed through a partnership between drug maker AstraZeneca and Oxford University, and produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII).
“Today we have received 20 lakh (2 million) doses of vaccines as a gift from India. It is proven that friendly countries help each other. India helped us with vaccines the way they helped us during our war of independence,” Maleque said, after Indian High Commissioner Vikram K. Doraiswami handed over the vaccine shipment to Bangladesh during a cere