Prosperous Bangladesh is in India’s interest
Says Vikram Doraiswami Diplomatic Correspondent Diplomatic Correspondent
Any perception that India is not interested in Bangladesh s development should be dismissed as a conspiracy theory, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami said yesterday. Sometimes there is a sense that there is a lot of mistrust about our [Indo-Bangla] relations. Let me say categorically that a strong, stable, prosperous, flourishing Bangladesh is in India s fundamental national interest. Your success is the best thing that can happen to us, he said. Therefore, all the ideas that we are somehow not interested in Bangladesh s development, you can please dismiss them as conspiracy theories, Doraiswami said at a DCAB (Diplomatic Correspondents Association of Bangladesh) talk at the capital s Jatiya Press Club.
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Opinion | Ladakh pullback: Rahul should know the difference between ‘rajneeti’ and ‘rashtraneeti’
As the world watched visuals of Chinese tanks doing a U-turn and moving back near Pangong lake on Thursday, every Indian had reason to smile as the nine-month-long standoff came to an end, except Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day’s press releases.
POTUS’ Schedule
9:30 a.m. EST – The President and The Vice President receive the President’s Daily Brief | Oval Office
2:00 p.m. EST – The President and The Vice President meet with the Secretary of Defense and other senior military and civilian leadership | The Pentagon
2:50 p.m. EST – The President, The Vice President, and the Secretary of Defense deliver remarks to Department of Defense personnel | The Pentagon
3:30 p.m. EST – The President, The Vice President, and the Secretary of Defense tour the African Americans in Service Corridor | The Pentagon
EU and India could partner in delivering COVID vaccines at the global scale
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Afghan health workers unload the first shipment boxes of Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine donated by the Indian government, at the Kabul airport on 7 February 2021. Afghanistan received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from India on 7 February, the first to arrive in the country. [Hedayatullah Amid/EPA/EFE]
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