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Sri Lanka, Pakistan defense relations are getting stronger

Sri Lanka’s Defense Secretary Major General (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne says defense diplomacy and cooperation between Sri Lanka and Pakistan had been growing from strength to strength through mutual trust built on political, economic, cultural and educational relationships between the two countries

Indian HC emphasizes need to expand bilateral cooperation with Sri Lanka

India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay emphasized the need to further expand the wide-ranging bilateral cooperation between the two countries to effectively and expeditiously address the unprecedented challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic

Pakistan PM dials Bangladesh PM to condole over lives lost to coronavirus

Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed his condolences to his Bangladeshi counterpart, Sheikh Hasina, over the lives lost in Dhaka to the novel coronavirus in a telephonic conversation held Wednesday

Maldives appoints ambassadors to SAARC countries

The Maldives parliament on Wednesday approved the appointment of four ambassadors to four countries, and the appointment of a permanent representative to the UN mission in Geneva

India-Bangladesh border: Dhaka to deploy more troops to stop killing, smuggling

Dhaka has planned to deploy additional troops in Indo-Bangla bordering areas to decrease border killings and alleged cattle smuggling

Afghan NSA vows response to Pakistani shelling

Afghan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib, during a visit to the eastern provinces on Tuesday said that the recent artillery attacks by the Pakistani’ military forces on Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province will not go without a response

Mother of Bengal woman held in Bangladesh for terror links wants action

The mother of a 25-year-old Indian woman who was arrested in Dhaka for her alleged links with the banned militant outfit Neo-JMB (Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh) has demanded strong action against her daughter

BSF must use non-lethal weapons at border, Bangladesh tells India

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said Indian Border Security Force should be cautious and use non-lethal weapons while guarding the border with Bangladesh, according to a report of The Hindu

Opposition coalition sits down with Indian High Commissioner Sunjay Sudhir

The opposition alliance, consisting of the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) and the People's National Congress (PNC), on Monday, met with Indian High Commissioner to Maldives Sunjay Sudhir

Indian chief of banned neo-JMB's women wing held in Bangladesh

An Indian woman, who was heading the women's wing of the banned neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (neo-JMB), has been arrested in Bangladesh, security officials said

Nepal Police opens fire on 3 Indian nationals, 1 injured

An Indian national was injured after Nepal Police opened fire at the Indo-Nepal border at Fatehpur in Tehragachh in Bihar's Kishanganj district, the police said on Sunday

Bangladeshi cattle thieves killed in Assam

Three suspected Bangladeshi nationals were killed by some unknown people at Bogrijan in southern Assam's Karimganj district, police said on Sunday

BGB questions BSF role, dismisses ‘baseless’ Indian reports over links with cattle smuggling

The Border Guard Bangladesh has dismissed Indian media reports implicating the border force in smuggling cattle across the borders as baseless and hit back at India’s Border Security Force or BSF by questioning their inactivity to curb the cattle smuggling

Afghan MPs condemn Pakistani shelling of eastern provinces

Lawmakers in Afghanistan’s parliament on Saturday summoned acting Minister of Interior Affairs Massoud Andarabi to report on the recent mortar shelling by the Pakistani military forces on the eastern provinces of Kunar and Nuristan

Despite closed border due to Covid, people to people exchanges continue at India-Bhutan checkpoint

Mobile phones glued to their ears and eyes fixed on the other side of the gate, several people wait near the Phuentsholing main gate every day