you are here: Home /
 

Bangladesh, India sign comprehensive border management agreement

By Agencies
Updated Saturday, 30 July 2011 22:07:19 - IST (UTC +5:30)

Dhaka: India and Bangladesh on Saturday signed a comprehensive border management agreement as Home Minister P. Chidambaram held crucial talks with his counterpart Ms. Sahara Khatun ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit here in September.
“We have just signed the agreement - Border Management Coordination Plan for a comprehensive and joint management of all frontier issues,” Ms. Sahara told a joint news briefing with Chidambaram after their nearly two-and-half-hour talks at Bangladesh secretariat here.
The two Ministers witnessed the signing of the agreement between Border Guard Bangladesh’s Director General Major General Anwar Hossain and his Indian counterpart of Border Security Force (BSF) Raman Srivastava.
Mr. Chidambaram said the deal was expected to resolve all outstanding frontier issues including combating cross-border crimes. “The agreement will enhance quality of border management as well as ensure (cross-border) security.”
India and Bangladesh share 4,096 Km border of which 6.1 kilometres is still un-demarcated.
Officials here familiar with the process said the deal intended to enforce joint frontier vigils from certain border points against other cross-border crimes like human trafficking and weapons and drug smuggling.
The two countries had last week concluded a joint headcount in 162 enclaves on both sides of their borders. Of this, 111 are Indian territories inside Bangladesh.
The enclaves, or areas locked by territories belonging to the other side, have been an un-resolved border issue between the two countries since the partition of the subcontinent, causing untold difficulties to the people there in matters of connectivity, power and education. (PTI

Tags: Agencies India-Bangladesh, border management agreement, PChidambram,

  • MUMBAI: The last time Muslims and Dalits created a joint political platform in Maharashtra was in the 1980s. Led by former smuggler and don Haji Mastan, the Dalit Muslim Suraksha Mahasangh (DMSM)...

    2012-05-07 17:11:22 |
    0 comments
  • MUMBAI: Chemical analysis of a powder-like substance collected from a Byculla apartment where two suspected Pakistani 13/7 bombers stayed has proved that it is the deadly explosive RDX. The...

    2012-05-03 17:34:23 |
    0 comments
  • Srinagar : For Abdul Rashid Khan, it has been a long wait for justice. Twelve years after his father Juma Khan was allegedly picked from his house, killed in a fake encounter and dubbed a foreign...

    2012-05-03 17:30:23 |
    0 comments
  • New Delhi : The Supreme Court gave the Army full “discretion” to choose between a court martial and a criminal trial for seven officers accused of killing five persons in an encounter in...

    2012-05-03 17:27:07 |
    0 comments
  • New Delhi. Syed Ghulam Akber, member Markazi Majlis-e-Shoora (Central Advisory Council) and former Secretary Jamaat-e-Islami Hind breathed his last at Care Hospital in Hyderabad at about 1 p.m....

    2012-04-30 20:38:08 |
    0 comments
  • Government responsible for Communal Violence in Hyderabad city RSS outfits Communalizing the situation and polarizing population by developing Communal Sentiments. Introduce and pass Communal...

    2012-04-25 11:01:25 |
    0 comments
  • Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari administered oath to eleven new ministers today. In all five federal ministers and six ministers of state were inducted in federal cabinet. The size of the...

    2012-04-14 19:42:01 |
    0 comments
  • Islamabad/New Delhi: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allow the release and repatriation on humanitarian grounds of Khalil Chishti, an 80-year-old...

    2012-04-13 23:46:33 |
    0 comments
  • Attari (Amritsar), Wagah Border: Extending airport-like facilities for cross-border passengers and cargo movement, India today said it has approved a liberal visa regime for people of Pakistan, as...

    2012-04-13 23:43:48 |
    0 comments
  • Islamabad: Amid growing speculations about Hina Rabbani Khar being removed as Foreign Minister, the Prime Minister’s House clarified late on Tuesday night that no such change was in the offing....

    2012-04-11 19:59:03 |
    0 comments
  • WASHINGTON: Less than a year ago, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited India and declared that the relationship between the world’s two largest democracies would shape the 21st...

    2012-04-10 21:47:28 |
    0 comments
  • GENEVA: Hinduja Group's Swiss-based private banking arm is able to continue providing financing to trading houses shipping food to Iran, its chief executive told reporters, despite difficulties in...

    2012-04-10 21:44:59 |
    0 comments
  • New Delhi: After almost a decade, Indian basmati rice exporters have now started direct shipments to Iran. This follows the operationalisation of a new payment mechanism that allows importers...

    2012-04-10 21:40:42 |
    0 comments
  • BEIJING: China has welcomed Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's trip to India and the improvement in India-Pakistan ties. "China is glad to see the improvement in India-Pakistan relations...

    2012-04-10 13:56:04 |
    0 comments
  • New Delhi: The Indian media has welcomed Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's talks with PM Manmohan Singh on a rare visit to India on Sunday. One newspaper said the "real test" for the two...

    2012-04-09 11:40:22 |
    0 comments
  • LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed the hope that ties with India will improve after President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit and said that ‘a fresh team’ will carry forward...

    2012-04-09 11:08:56 |
    0 comments