India-Bangla ties are time-tested, written in blood: Bangladesh minister

The relation between Bangladesh and India are tied with the blood-stained history of the 1971 Liberation War, and the neighbouring countries are tested friends, Bangladesh Minister Obaidul Quader said

The relation between Bangladesh and India are tied with the blood-stained history of the 1971 Liberation War, and the neighbouring countries are tested friends, Bangladesh Minister Obaidul Quader has said. Quader, the Road Transport and Bridges Minister, said if relations with neighbouring countries become friendly and strong, it will be easier to make mutual progress and resolve unsettled bilateral issues,

He said this on Tuesday while interacting with the reporters after Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das paid him a courtesy call at his secretariat office. The minister extended his thanks to the High Commissioner for her cooperation in taking ahead of the road infrastructural development projects in Bangladesh.

During the meeting, they discussed the progress of the under-implementation projects in road infrastructural development and public transport in Bangladesh under the Indian Lines of Credit, he added.Bangladesh and India are now maintaining stronger, friendly, warm, and development-oriented relations than any previous time, added Quader, the general secretary of the ruling party of B’desh Awami League.

Modi my friend, says Trump as he leaves for maiden India visit with Melania

Trump is accompanied by First Lady Melania, daughter Ivanka, son-in-law Jared Kushner and the top brass of his administration

US President Donald Trump on Sunday left for his maiden visit to India for talks with the top Indian leadership. Before taking the 17-hour flight to India, Trump called Prime Minister Narendra Modi his “friend”.

‘Biggest event’

“I look forward to being with the people of India… I get along very well with PM Modi. He is a friend of mine,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “I had committed to this trip long time ago. I hear it’s going to be a big event…the biggest event they ever had in India. That’s what the Prime Minister told me. It’s going to be very exciting,” Trump said.

Trump, who is seeking re-election in the US presidential elections in November, routinely gets the biggest crowds of any candidate in the US presidential race, ranging up to 20,000 or so, and he has been grudgingly admiring of Modi’s ability to get a bigger crowd than him. “Here’s my problem,” Trump told a large crowd of supporters in Colorado last week. “We have a packed house. We have thousands of people who couldn’t get in.

It’s going to look like peanuts from now on.”

In India, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to greet Trump in a massive road show in Ahmedabad before he arrives at the newly-built Motera cricket stadium, which has a capacity of over 100,000 people, for the ‘Namaste Trump’ event. The event will be a larger version of the Howdy Modi rally that they jointly appeared at in Houston to a crowd of 50,000 Indian Americans last year…

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