Both Bangladesh and India are moving forward very positively and the relations are excellent.

In traditional terms security is about threats to the existence of a nation state and adoption of emergency or extraordinary measures to deal with them. But non-traditional approach to security tends to make it all-inclusive.

I’m confident that this festival will help redefine our film industry and put us on the map of world cinema.

We had earlier given tentative dates in February and March for the Prime Minister’s visit to the two countries.

We’ve urged the government of Denmark to take necessary steps to stop recurrence of such heinous act. We also requested them to tender apology to diffuse the sense of insult and anger created following the...

We hope the opposition will accept the Prime Minister’s offer and nominate their members for the committee.

We [Bangladesh] are India-locked, while India’s northeast is Bangladesh-locked. But at no point of time we should consider our geographic locations as a liability, rather it’s an asset if we can transcend this to mutual...

This is not a proposal but an ultimatum that smacks of arrogance of the minority in parliament.

It’s very painful and disappointing that some major western newspapers have reprinted the cartoons tormenting the religious belief of the Muslims.