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Bangladesh has emerged as a major partner of India and South Asia, especially in pushing connectivity and development.
The meeting has paved way for further interaction among the top leadership of the two countries.
Bangladesh is trying to engage in various sub-regional connectivity projects via road, rail, and sea routes with India.
बांग्लादेश (Bangladesh) को राजस्व बढ़ाने और ख़र्च को संतुलित करन
Setting up of research taskforces on various climate change and environment risks in the BIMSTEC sub-region can develop a common understanding of the threats, create standards for emergency management and come up with cost-effective solutions.
While the trip offered a chance to build on cooperation, it also reinforced existing differences between the two countries.
As India’s interests move beyond its borders, the fixation with South Asia-centric notion of neighbourhood can no longer serve as a useful analytica
The BRICS ship remains on course to sail steady, and is heading for more effective projects in years to come post the show of strength in Goa
While India has stated that it hopes to insulate itself from future shocks, most of the members of the BIMSTEC have become aware of an over-reliance o
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) appears to be gaining momentum in formulating collective strategies to combat non-traditional security threats in the subregion. This brief describes how BIMSTEC had focused on bilateralism or trilateralism from its inception in 1997 until 2015, thereby failing to pursue a more comprehensive and long-term approach to addressing the common threats to their
How can we create innovative financing mechanisms in countries in the BIMSTEC region?
Promotion of the tourism sector is inherently linked with the connectivity in the sub-region.
The strategic location of India’s North Eastern Region (NER) offers ample opportunities for enhancing the country’s economic ties. However, supply-chain constraints at the regional level hamper the trade-growth linkages, as do trade barriers, social unrest, and inadequate infrastructure. Enhancing and improving commercial exchanges with neighbouring countries, such as Bangladesh and Myanmar, will strengthen bilateral and regional networks. Th
How India’s island neighbours react to this new geopolitical reality and whether this will result in an emergence of a new Cold War is yet to be see
In an unpredictable global environment, India needs to shape a domestic consensus in matters of Indian foreign policy.
भारत आणि G7 देशांमध्ये अनेक संभाषणे होत आहेत परंतु ती सर्व कामाच्या प्रगतीचा भाग आहेत.
India can lead South Asia's war on terror by strengthening counterterrorism efforts but also lead the regional counterterrorism superstructure
Many conversations are taking place between India and the G7 countries but all are part of a work-in-progress.
Various estimates show that RCEP’s share in the world GDP may touch 50 per cent by 2050. The fear that India may be left out if it decides not to join the group is real. But given the economic clout of China and other economies, India may find it very difficult to grab a significant share of the this RCEP cake.
In Modi’s second term, India needs to be pragmatic and clear-eyed about the challenge that Beijing poses for its interests.
India should put its Eurasian ambitions on hold for a while and focus on its immediate neighbourhood.
A mix of marginalisation, mobilisation and militarisation has helped Delhi take away a key facet of Pakistan’s outreach, allowing India to be more ambitious on the regional and global stage
The MEA’s restructuring is an exercise to prepare for the aspirations of a 21st-century India
As 2017 draws to a close, India can look at the year gone by with some satisfaction even as there might be some trepidation about the coming year.
BIMSTEC is the only forum that brings together India’s strategic peripheries — South, East and North — under one single grouping.
While taking a leading role within various regional intelligence-sharing mechanisms, India must be wary of the counterintelligence risks that are pres
Growing economic protectionism and recurrent geo-economic and geo-political tensions in recent years are testing the resilience of the global economic order. Erstwhile proponents of globalisation such as the United States and the European Union are themselves recoiling from the global value chains that are over-reliant on China. As the localisation of goods and services has become more critical, it calls to question the viability of a globalised
The revival of the multi-modal connectivity web in today’s context — with the Bay of Bengal central to it — holds rich promises for all South an
India and Bangladesh’s relationship has been growing steadily over the past few years, especially since Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came to power in January 2009. In 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the relationship as being in its “golden era (Sonali Adhyay).” Indeed, Bangladesh is at the centre of India’s flagship ‘Neighbourhood First’ and ‘Act East’ policies, and has been crucial in ensuring peace
New Delhi’s approach to Southeast Asia within the wider Indo-Pacific region is strategically sound but has limits.
The Nepal-India-Sri Lanka initiative could be used to pursue better people-to-people relations.
Though the Mitali Express provides better connectivity between Bangladesh and India, its true potential can only be reached if it is expanded to other
No longer just a balancer, the prime minister wants to make India a major power in its own right. And his cabinet pick shows he’s serious about doing so.
To improve South Asian regional cooperation, Modi has three options. The first is to focus on a two-speed Saarc. The second is to build on transregional institutions like the BIMSTEC. However, it is the third way -- unilateral action -- that offers Modi the greatest opportunity. For example, Modi has already proposed to build a Saarc satellite for use by its neighbours.
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Because of the lack of political will among leaders in the region, regional bodies have not proven effective in facilitating intra-regional connectivi
India is emphasising on promoting economic ties and connectivity in its neighbourhood.
As Manmohan Singh meets Myanmar's President in the sidelines of the Bimstec summit, this will give an opportunity for the two leaders to further deepen bilateral ties. As part of the two neighbours growing relations, a border security pact is expected to be signed during Dr Singh's visit.
Bangladesh must invest to enhance its energy security as the current crisis can have economic implications
India is concentrating more on connectivity projects to strengthen the India-Nepal relations and to cater to its security needs in the Northeast
Delhi has envisioned various subregions in and around the subcontinent. Re-integrating the subcontinent by re-discovering the old as well as building
The signing of the framework agreement on free trade area was not anticipated during the event, which later appeared as a new revelation in the wake o
