Bangladesh

Today India is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Vijay Divas. On 16 December 1971, East Pakistan  turned into Bangladesh after winning long-fought war of independence against Pakistan with the help pf Indian Army. Indian Army had to get into a war with Pakistan Army for saving the people of East Pakistan from the brutalities of Pakistan Army. Indian Army, uder the military leadership of General Sam Manekshaw and political backing of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, inflicted humiliating defeat on Pakistan Army which was forced to surrender along with its 93,000 captured soldiers in Dhaka.

PM Sheikh Hasina shared a video message to her counterpart sharing that the two nation's partnership is not confined to treaties and that both India and Bangladesh are tied in history, culture, language, and shared values of secularism, democracy, and countless other

Especially significant is the fact that given its closeness to the US, India is intent on going ahead with its purchase of S 400 TRIUMF missiles, with the threat of CAATSA (though improbable) hanging over it. Turkey has faced similar sanctions from the US over its purchase of the same missile system from Russia. During President Putin's visit the India-Russia 2+2 dialogue involving the foreign and defence ministers on both sides.

The security forces are fencing the borders to fortify the security along the international frontiers, BSF official told news agency IANS. Four northeastern states -- Tripura (856 km), Meghalaya (443 km), Mizoram (318 km) and Assam (263 km), share an 1,880-km border with Bangladesh.

Rajnath Singh said, "It was a moral fight against injustice, atrocities and oppression. Ordinary people were brutally maimed and murdered. The barbaric atrocities of Operation Searchlight stirred the conscience of the world." Paying glowing tributes to 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, Singh said that the inspiring leadership of the first President of Bangladesh was the guiding light for the people of the country in their struggle for freedom.

Indian Navy's Offshore Patrol Vessel, INS Savitri arrived ay Chattogram harbour on Thursday, carrying two 960 LPM (litres per minute) medical oxygen plants to support the ongoing efforts of the Bangladesh military and government agencies in combating the Covid pandemic in their country. These medical oxygen plants have been developed and manufactured by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.

The duo were identified as Younia Ali and Md Sagar, reportedly from Bangladesh's Patgram. According to local sources, the BSF has tightened its hold on the border area to check cattle smuggling. However, despite this, smugglers from Bangladesh allegedly continue to carry on with the illegal activity, using both open or barbed wire borders as corridors.

The case was earlier registered in West Bengal's Kolkata on July 10 this year under several sections of the IPC and Foreigners Act. The official said that the case relates to Bangladeshi nationals S.K. Shabbir, Joseph and others, who had illegally entered India and were sympathisers or members of terrorist organisations.

During Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's state visit to Bangladesh on March 26-27 to join celebrations of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh's independence, the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and 50 years of establishment of diplomatic relations between India and Bangladesh, he and his Bangladesh counterpart, Sheikh Hasina, had pledged to restore all pre-1965 rail links.

Officials in the Border Security Force (BSF) said these intruders were caught and handed over to the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) -- the border guarding force of the neighbouring country, which shares 4,096 km borders with India. Most of the times, these illegal infiltrators sneaked into the Indian territory by crossing the International Boundary (IB) in search of jobs.