Bangladesh, India Seek Broader Relations

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Bangladesh, India Seek Broader Relations​

NEW DELHI - India and Bangladesh are exploring ways to expand defense ties beyond their current joint military exercises.

The Indian Navy's chief, Adm. Nirmal Verma, discussed ways to improve cooperation in talks with senior Bangladeshi military officers in Dhaka during a five-day visit that began April 3, said a senior Indian Defence Ministry official.

India will train Bangladeshi military personnel at its facilities in India, the official added.

Verma met Bangladesh President Mohammed Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on April 7 in Dhaka. The armies of the two countries have held joint exercises for several years, the Defence Ministry official said, and cooperation will be expanded to include the supply of weapons and equipment.

The armies of India and Bangladesh conducted counterterrorism exercises in India's northeastern state of Assam in February and March as part of confidence-building measures.

Ties between India and Bangladesh have steadily improved since Sheikh Hasina came to power in January 2009. Relations had been frosty during the 2001-2006 tenure of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.

To curb illegal immigration from Bangladesh, India is fencing the nearly 4,000-kilometer land boundary between the two countries, though demarcation of the fencing remains unsettled in some stretches.

Bangladesh is of strategic interest to India as part of its "look east policy," and efforts should be made to make Bangladesh less dependent on China for arms and equipment, said Mahindra Singh, a retired Indian Army major general.


Bangladesh, India Seek Broader Relations - Defense News

 

[TopCat]

What defence equipment??? Our FM is in Russia now with a list in her hand...
I dont know what India has and will offer to Bangladesh??? I am confused...

 

[integra]

defence training in india? and weapon? WTF...didn see any news like that over here(not even in military forums). Army isn't stupid to fall for that trap. Drills might have been a probaility but trainings? BAL...........and their wet dreams, I hope she calls for more security personnel to protect her.

 

[Skies]

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Everybody gone bad
trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Black male, black mail
Throw your brother in jail

All I wanna say is that...............

Joi Hind, Joi Bangla.

 

[SpArK]

Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Black male, black mail
Throw your brother in jail

All I wanna say is that...............


Joi Hind, Joi Bangla.

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You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
chew me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me

Bangladesh relaxes norms for India to erect border fence
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Agartala, April 8 (IANS) Dhaka has allowed New Delhi to erect fencing along the 'zero line' of the international border so that Indian homes and farms located close to it are not impacted, a Tripura minister said here Friday.

The Indian government has been erecting the barbed wire fence along the 4,095-km India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram to check trans-border movement of militants, prevent infiltration and prevent border crimes.

As per international norms, the barbed wire fencing has to be built 150-yards inside India from the zero line of the border.

"For erecting the fence (at 150-yards from the border line) along the 841-km of the 856-km India-Bangladesh border with Tripura, over 8,730 Indian families' homes, paddy fields, lands, farms and other assets had fallen outside the fence (making them) vulnerable," Tripura Revenue and Finance Minister Badal Choudhury told reporters.

He said: "(Due) to stipulated distance for putting up the fence, over 19,359 acres of land, including farmland, have fallen outside the fencing in Tripura alone."

"Following Tripura government's persistent demand, New Delhi appraised Dhaka about the problems in erecting the fencing at the 150-yards from the boundary and the Bangladesh government has allowed India to erect the fencing at the 'zero line' in certain stretches to save Indian properties and congested human habitations."

"The 150-yards norms have been followed in erecting fence along the India's border with Pakistan," Choudhury added.

The minister said that to rehabilitate the 8,730 families who were affected, the Tripura government had sent a Rs.93 crore project to the central government in 2004, but the latter was yet to sanction any funds for it.

The minister said after erection of the fencing, the trans-border movements of militants, infiltration and border crimes have been reduced to a large extent.

A section of villagers in Tripura's border areas affected by the border fencing work have continued with their agitation since early February to demand that they be settled.

Main opposition Congress legislator Subal Bhowmik, who has been spearheading the protest, told reporters: "The Left Front government in Tripura has remained quiet despite the fencing-affected people protesting for the past 10 years for their settlement."

The locals have formed an organisation called "Simanta Bhumi Suraksha Committee (border land protection committee) with Bhowmik as its president


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Bangladesh, India Seek Broader Relations​

NEW DELHI - India and Bangladesh are exploring ways to expand defense ties beyond their current joint military exercises.

The Indian Navy's chief, Adm. Nirmal Verma, discussed ways to improve cooperation in talks with senior Bangladeshi military officers in Dhaka during a five-day visit that began April 3, said a senior Indian Defence Ministry official.

India will train Bangladeshi military personnel at its facilities in India, the official added.

Verma met Bangladesh President Mohammed Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on April 7 in Dhaka. The armies of the two countries have held joint exercises for several years, the Defence Ministry official said, and cooperation will be expanded to include the supply of weapons and equipment.

The armies of India and Bangladesh conducted counterterrorism exercises in India's northeastern state of Assam in February and March as part of confidence-building measures.

Ties between India and Bangladesh have steadily improved since Sheikh Hasina came to power in January 2009. Relations had been frosty during the 2001-2006 tenure of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.

To curb illegal immigration from Bangladesh, India is fencing the nearly 4,000-kilometer land boundary between the two countries, though demarcation of the fencing remains unsettled in some stretches.

Bangladesh is of strategic interest to India as part of its "look east policy," and efforts should be made to make Bangladesh less dependent on China for arms and equipment, said Mahindra Singh, a retired Indian Army major general.


Bangladesh, India Seek Broader Relations - Defense News

1) Indians, even long after 1971, are still living in illusion. We do not want to be part of their NE insurgent solution, but, they would bind us with sweet rerquests. So, BD army had to participate in only one very limited scale joint exercise in India in 2009. India, somehow, wants us to be part of its warfare against the NE freedom fighters.

2) Now, Indian newspapers come out with another request to buy India's obsolete weapons. Yes, we buy cotton and foodstuff from India. But, question does not arise of buying weapons from them. Our military will revolt if the govt talks positive about this possibility.

3) About defence training. Indians must be day dreaming. There are exchanges of officers among the defence colleges of many countries, which is understood. But, BD officers do not have to learn strategy in Indian defence colleges. Indians must be living in a make-believe world.

 

[sab]

Why do you always take it in negative sense. May be Indian Army want to learn from Bangladesh a trick or two....