India landslide kills three soldiers after heavy rains

June 2, 2025

Torrential rains in northeast India resulted in a deadly landslide that crushed and killed three soldiers with six more missing, the Indian army said Monday, AFP reports. Flash floods and landslides in the annual monsoon rains have killed at least 30 people in India’s northeast states in the past week. The landslide that killed the […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh’s ‘chicken necks’ more vulnerable than India’s, says Assam CM

May 25, 2025

PARBATTA NEWS DESK Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that Bangladesh has two narrow land corridors similar to India’s Siliguri Corridor, which he described as “far more vulnerable”. According to a report by Hindustan Times, Sarma made the remarks in a post on social media platform X on Sunday, stating that those who […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh cancels $21 million deal with India’s GRSE for ocean-going tug

May 23, 2025

PARBATTA NEWS DESK Bangladesh has cancelled a naval ship order placed with Indian state-owned shipbuilder Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE), the company said in a filing to India’s stock exchange, BBC Bangla reports. The $21 million contract, signed in July 2024, involved the construction of an ocean-going tug for the Bangladesh Navy. The vessel […]Continue Reading

India ex-general warns against Bangladesh airbase near strategic ‘chicken’s neck’

May 23, 2025

PARBATTA NEWS DESK A former senior Indian army officer has warned that any infrastructure near the Siliguri Corridor perceived as a threat to India’s security could be “neutralised swiftly.” Lt Gen (retd) Subrata Saha made the remarks in a column for Anandabazar Patrika, referring to Bangladesh’s reported plan to revive a World War II-era airbase […]Continue Reading

Detained ‘Bangladeshis’ transferred to Tripura; Push-backs likely

May 17, 2025

PARBATTA NEWS DESK Several individuals identified as “Bangladeshi nationals” by Indian authorities have been transferred to Tripura, raising the possibility of renewed push-back operations into Bangladesh, BBC Bangla reports. Following the recent militant attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, law enforcement agencies across various Indian states have intensified Continue Reading

At least 31 suspected Maoist rebels killed in India’s ‘biggest ever operation’ against decades-old insurgency

May 17, 2025

Indian police have killed 31 suspected Maoist rebels in what is being described as the “biggest ever operation” against the long-running insurgency, CNN reports. Security forces spent 21 days attempting to capture the rebels along the border of the states of Chhattisgarh and Telangana in central India, Home Minister Amit Shah said Wednesday. Describing the […]Continue Reading

India rejects China’s latest renaming of places in Arunachal border state

May 15, 2025

India said on Wednesday that it rejects China’s move to rename places in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh where the Asian neighbours share a border, adding that the Himalayan territory was an integral part of India, Reuters reports. Beijing has renamed places in Arunachal Pradesh in the past as well and the issue has […]Continue Reading

Pakistan says it is committed to truce with India, vows to respond to aggression

May 13, 2025

Pakistan said on Tuesday that it remains committed to the truce with India, agreed after four days of intense fighting last week, but vowed to respond to any future aggression by New Delhi with full resolve, Reuters reports. The comments from Islamabad came in response to an address to the nation by Indian Prime Minister […]Continue Reading

How India and Pakistan pulled back from the brink with US-brokered ceasefire

May 13, 2025

At 2.09 a.m. on Saturday, Ahmad Subhan, who lives near an air base in the Pakistan military garrison city of Rawalpindi, heard the first explosion that rattled the windows of his house – and took South Asia to the brink of war, REUTERS REPORTS. As dawn broke, the heaviest fighting in decades between nuclear-armed India […]Continue Reading

Delhi concerned over ban on AL activities; supports early election

May 13, 2025

NEWS DESK India on Tuesday expressed concerns over the ban imposed by the interim government on the activities of Bangladesh Awami League. “The ban on the Awami League without due process is a concerning development,” said Spokesperson at the Ministry of External Affairs Randhir Jaiswal during a regular media briefing in New Delhi. As a […]Continue Reading