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Sastodeal partners with Flipkart to bring Made-in-India products to Nepal

Sastodeal, a leading local e-commerce company in Nepal, and Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace have officially entered into a strategic partnership to initiate cross-border trade opportunities for its lakhs of sellers

Pakistani minister questions FB's bias for India over Pakistan

Pakistan's Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Aminul Haque has raised serious questions and reservations over the alleged "biased" policies of social media giant Facebook for Indian users in comparison to content from Pakistani users

500 Indians stranded in Bangladesh due to coronavirus leave through Benapole

Five hundred Indian nationals who were stranded for nearly five months in Bangladesh due to coronavirus outbreak left Bangladesh through Benapole land port -- between yesterday morning and this noon

Pakistan bars citizens of Israel, India in outsourcing of airports

With a plan to set up Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA), the government has placed a bar on involving citizens of Israel and India in the process of outsourcing Pakistani airports

It’s India’s move to refresh ties with neighbours, say Bangladesh analysts

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla's two-day visit to Dhaka is part of India's larger policy to boost relations with its neighbours as China seeks to draw them closer to it, foreign relations analysts said

Pakistan's braggart minister threatens India with nuclear war which won't harm Muslims

Pakistan Federal Minister Sheikh Rashid has threatened India with nuclear war once again, saying the weapons will be such that they will save the Muslims during the attack

Nepal PM confident of bilateral relations with Sri Lanka achieving new heights

Referring to the Nepal–Sri Lanka bilateral relations that go back many centuries, Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has described Sri Lanka as a "very good friend of Nepal"

Bangladesh, India agree to convene JCC meeting soon

Bangladesh and India have agreed to convene the Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) between the two countries at the level of Foreign Ministers at the earliest, as JCC provides an excellent platform to discuss the entire gamut of bilateral relations between the two countries with an action-oriented focus, Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh, Masud Bin Momen, said on Thursday

Nepal and India look for a boundary meeting

After two back-to-back high-level engagements between Nepal and India over the past few days, the two neighbours are now looking to hold a meeting of their Boundary Working Group

India, Bangladesh discuss two-year road map for bilateral ties

Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla met with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and held discussions on various bilateral issues, including a two-year road map vis-a-vis the relations between the two countries

India looks forward to taking partnership with Sri Lanka to greater heights

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has conveyed to Sri Lanka’s Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena that he looks forward to working closely with his counterpart to take India- Sri Lanka partnership to greater heights as part of India’s neighborhood first policy

India, Bangladesh explore closer cooperation for mutual development

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has met Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka

Air India to resume scheduled operation to Maldives on Friday

Air India will resume scheduled flights to the Maldives on Friday

Pakistani, Afghan terror groups merge

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has merged with its splinter groups Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) and Hizb-ul-Ahrar (HuA) in Afghanistan, sources have revealed

India, Bangladesh explore expansion of development partnership

India and Bangladesh on Tuesday decided to expand their economic and development partnership in the post-Covid situation as PM Sheikh Hasina met Foreign Secretary Harsh V Shringla in what was her first meeting with a visiting dignitary since the outbreak of the pandemic