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141365
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India and Bangladesh have made significant progress on several matters, all of which certainly merit applause. However, more interesting is the progress made on sub-regional cooperation in the region. The bilateral connectivity will, no doubt, expand in the region, with other states like Nepal and Bhutan benefitting from the access to two Bangladeshi ports as well as trade through the Indian corridor. Matters of water sharing, trade and commerce, including energy, will soon go much beyond the bilateral prism. The recent motor vehicle agreement signed between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal is just a first but critical step towards a sub regional initiative that has gathered momentum amongst the South Asian neighbours. Certainly bilateral matters will continue to dominate and be seen as more critical between any two neighbours. The sub-regional cooperation process will ensure that incentives to find resolutions to certain outstanding bilateral matters will assume greater salience.
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141363
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The Land Boundary Agreement (LBA), finalized during the recent visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bangladesh in June this year, justifiably received top billing in the media. So did the Teesta water sharing agreement which could not be signed, thanks to domestic politics in India. The LBA has been implemented and enclaves, adverse possessions and demarcation of the land boundary implemented on August 1, 2015 in a time-bound manner. A lingering ghost of the post-colonial era has finally been exorcised, freeing Bangladesh-India relations from the shackles of the past. The Teesta water sharing agreement, however, is enmeshed in political horse trading, as well as disagreement between the Central government and the West Bengal State government on the water sharing formula.
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141367
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Epoch making changes during the past one decade on the nuclear front have ended India’s nuclear isolation. Along with several others, Dr. Ravi B. Grover has been intimately associated with shaping the changes. This article is based on a lecture on the subject delivered by the author at the regular meeting of the Association of Indian Diplomats on 29 May 2015 at New Delhi.
His talk recapitulated crucial details beginning with the India-US Joint Statement of 18 July 2005, India’s Separation Plan, India-Specific Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol. It was followed by developments subsequent to adjustment by NSG of its guidelines facilitating civil nuclear trade with India. India’s civil nuclear liability regime was covered in detail. The talk ended with future technology options and challenges ahead.
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141368
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The contemporary India–Africa relations, although built on strong historical, cultural and political relations, is driven today by economic and geopolitical concerns. Although this relationship has evolved significantly over the years, it had never taken on a strategic nature as it has today. With African nations becoming more assertive and playing host to emerging nations such as China and Brazil, India’s aim of becoming a partner in African development faces competition of sorts. It is imperative therefore, to create new and more productive engagements with Africa, ones that extend beyond the current milieu.
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141364
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[T]he two countries at present share cooperative bilateral relations and there is a great degree of mutual understanding regarding the mutual aspirations. India’s Development Partnership Agreement with Bangladesh in 2011, underpins economic aspirations of the two countries away from the security centric approach that had once governed the bilateral relations.
Though the Teesta issue appears to be the stumbling block at this moment, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's assurance on the Teesta issue is likely to pave the way for future resolution perhaps after the State Assembly poll. Unlike the past, India has a willing partner in Bangladesh that is not hesitant to engage its bigger neighbours in a mutually beneficial relationship and appreciative of the fact that their common future lies in greater cooperation. India needs to grab this opportunity and ensure that this relationship benefits Bangladesh as a true partner that dared to dream of a common destiny with a large neighbour.
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141366
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During the last six years, India and Bangladesh have surged ahead steadily in multiple sectors. Security cooperation between the two has never been better; indeed it is exemplary. Both have amicably resolved disputes, and completed the boundary demarcation on the land, in rivers, and in the Bay of Bengal. India has unilaterally extended duty free and quota free access to virtually all but 26 Bangladeshi products in the Indian market, resulting in a substantial increase in the volumes of bilateral trade. Eight border haats (markets) have been set up, to date, along Bangladesh’s borders with Meghalaya and Tripura, thus reconnecting and reviving historic economic connections that had existed between peoples and communities on both sides before they were disrupted. Many more are under active consideration. Indian investments in Bangladesh have surged dramaticallyinitially in the garments and textiles as well as telecom sectors, and now expanding steadily into the power and infrastructure sectors also.
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There has been a clear paradigm shift in Indo-Bangladesh relations over the past few years, as now exemplified and concretised by the agreements signed during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Dhaka in June 2015. As Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said some time ago, it is the season of friendship in Indo-Bangladesh relations. It remains now to build further on the foundation that has been laid.
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