For years, India’s push to transform its Northeast from a landlocked periphery into a connectivity hub has rested on a fairly optimistic assumption: that neighbouring Bangladesh would remain a stable, cooperative partner in enabling trade and transit routes to Southeast Asia and beyond. Recent developments — from Dhaka’s deepening security engagement with Pakistan’s intelligence establishment […]
On August 4, Air India flight AI2379 was cruising over Odisha at more than 36,000 feet when it suddenly lost around 300 feet of altitude. Passengers were thrown against seatbelts and overhead bins; by most accounts, somewhere between 17 and 20 passengers and four cabin crew were injured. The co-pilot took control, steadied the aircraft,
For decades, India’s eastern frontier was seen as the quieter flank of its national security landscape — a border defined more by shared rivers, cultural overlap, and economic interdependence with Bangladesh than by the kind of adversarial tension that has long characterised the western border with Pakistan. That comfortable assumption is now being tested. Reports
Agartala: Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha on Thursday paid floral tributes to Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur on his birth anniversary, at a ceremony held at Zero Point here. The programme began with the Chief Minister offering a wreath at the Maharaja’s statue. Speaking to reporters after the ceremony, Dr. Saha reflected on the
A six-member delegation from Bangladesh’s military intelligence organisation, the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, travelled to Pakistan on August 15, marking the latest sign of deepening security and intelligence cooperation between Dhaka and Islamabad. The delegation was led by Colonel Magfuz-ul-Bari and included Wing Commander Imrul Kais, Mohiuddin Mohammad Asif, Squadron Leader Raihan Mohammad Chowdhury,
Germany and France have jointly condemned remarks by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, in which he called for Israel’s military to kill 30 to 40 people in Gaza every night, describing the comments as “inhumane” and “intolerable.” On Saturday, Ben Gvir said Israel’s military should carry out targeted assassinations in Gaza, apparently referring
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he intends to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, while offering an unusually specific claim about the size of Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal. Speaking to reporters during a tour of a new helipad at the White House, Trump confirmed plans to meet Kim when asked
Pakistan formally summoned the United States’ Chargé d’Affaires in Islamabad on Wednesday, lodging a strong protest after US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor described Jammu and Kashmir as an important part of India during a visit to the region. Natalie Baker, the US envoy in Islamabad, was called in to face Pakistan’s objections over the
As global flashpoints multiply — from tensions in the Gulf to intensifying conflict in Yemen and a major counter-terror crackdown across Indian states ahead of Independence Day — border states like Tripura offer a useful reminder that security concerns are rarely confined to distant headlines. Tripura shares an extensive frontier with Bangladesh, and its position
As tensions escalate in the Strait of Hormuz — with the United States and Iran locked in an unresolved conflict, and Washington now threatening even a mediating ally like Oman — India finds two of its deepest national interests converging in one volatile region: the safety of its citizens abroad and the security of its
