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RTD on the Current Situation in Bangladesh

Even as Bangladesh continues to face the worst political turmoil in its history, a Round Table Discussion was held at the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) on April 7th, 2015 to discuss the current political situation in Bangladesh. The inte....

April 08, 2015 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , Bangladesh Nationalist Party , Awami League , Jamaat-e-Islami

Visit by Bangladeshi Parliamentary Delegation

On 25 Nov 2014, a ten-member Parliamentary delegation from Bangladesh held wide ranging interaction with the VIF faculty on ‘India-Bangladesh relations and the way forward’. The interaction kicked off on a positive note, with former Ambassador Sa....

December 03, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , India-Bangladesh Relations , Bangladeshi Parliamentary Delegation

Sushma Swaraj’s Bangladesh Visit: A Good Start to “Neighbours First” Policy in Dhaka

Monish Gulati

Introduction Termed as a “goodwill visit”, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj led her first international visit to Bangladesh on 25 June accompanied by Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh and other senior officials. The visit marked th....

August 12, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh

Bangladesh Migrants: A Threat to India; P K Mishra; Gyan Publishing House; PP 304; Price Rs 910

Dr A Surya Prakash

A Diligent Field Report on Illegal Migration and its Impact on India’s Unity and Integrity Bangladesh Migrants: A Threat to india by Mr. Pavas Kumar Mishra , retired Additional Director-General of the Border Security Force, is a rare bo....

August 06, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , national security , Internal Security , Muslim , Supreme Court , Book Reviews , Bangladesh Migrants

Violence Against Minority Hindus in Bangladesh: An Analysis

Dr Prakash Chandra Sahoo

Introduction Bangladesh was born in 1971 premised on a secular and democratic ethos as paragraph 2 of the preamble of the first constitution of Bangladesh which was adopted on November 4, 1972 accepted ‘nationalism’, ‘socialism’, �....

July 28, 2014 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh

Book on Bangladeshi Migrants Released at VIF

‘Bangladesh Migrants - A Threat to India’ authored by P K Mishra, Senior Fellow of the Vivekananda International Foundation, was released at the VIF on 13 May 2014, by Shri Prakash Singh, IPS (Retd) and former Director General, BSF and a member o....

May 26, 2014 Ilegal Immigration , National Security and Strategic Studies , Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Book Discussions , Bangladesh Migrant , Indo Bangladesh border , Coxs' Bazaar , Islamic interest

Interaction with the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India

On 23^rd August 2013, VIF invited the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India, H.E Mr. Tariq A. Karim for an interaction on the present state and future prospects of India-Bangladesh relations. Ambassador Karim began his talk by first brie....

September 12, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , India-Bangladesh Relations , Look East Policy

Political Assertion of Radical Forces in Bangladesh: Impact & Implications for India

On 28 April 2013, VIF welcomed Gen. (retd) Shankar Roychowdhury PVSM, AVSM former Chief of the Indian Army, Amb. Satish Chandra, former Deputy National Security Advisor in the Chair, Shri DC Nath, President Patriots Forum and Shri Vikramjeet Banerjee....

May 03, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh , Interaction , Radical Forces in Bangladesh , Political Assertion , Bhadra Lok

Indo Bangladesh Relations

Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty

Introduction Pakistan Army surrendered to the Indian Army in Dacca on 16 December 1971. It was a victory which resulted in the creation of a new nation Bangladesh which found its rightful place in the committee of nations. India withdrew it....

April 08, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh

War Crime Trials: Bangladesh on the Edge

Neha Mehta

The 1971 Liberation War in Bangladesh has been the worst chapter in Bangladesh’s history that witnessed genocide, rape and murder at the hands of the army of West Pakistan and their collaborators in East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). This re....

April 01, 2013 Neighbourhood Studies , Bangladesh