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A day before embarking on a visit to New Delhi, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday inaugurated the eighth bridge built by China and thus subtly sent out a message – India must keep its purse-strings loose to fund development projects in her country and stop her government from exploring the option of relying more on Xi Jinping’s ‘Middle Kingdom’.
India and Bangladesh are likely to unveil a raft of measures to boost cooperation in areas of defence, trade and river water sharing during Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's four-day trip to India beginning Monday. The two sides are expected to ink several agreements, including one on interim sharing of the Kushiyara river water following talks between Hasina and
Before the Partition of British India (1947), Calcutta (Kolkata) was as much of a Muslim city as it was a Hindu one. Muslims who came to this city belonged to diverse classes, various sects and spoke in different tongues.