The Indian Panorama

Tag: BIMSTEC

  • Cabinet nod for MoU for bridge between India and Nepal at Dharchula

    Kathmandu (TIP): Union Cabinet on January 6 approved signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Nepal for construction of a bridge over Mahakali river at Dharchula in Uttarakhand.

    Briefing the media on the Cabinet decisions, I&B Minister Anurag Thakur said the MoU between India and Nepal will be signed in the “near future” and the bridge will be completed within three years. “The construction of the bridge will help people living in Dharchula in Uttarakhand and in the territory of Nepal,” he said.

    Thakur said as close neighbours, India and Nepal share unique ties of friendship and cooperation characterized by an open border and deep-rooted people-to-people contacts of kinship and culture. The diplomatic relations between the two countries will further improve with the signing of the MoU, an official statement said. It noted that India and Nepal have been working together on different regional forums such as SAARC and BIMSTEC as well as the global fora. PTI

  • ‘Bangladesh relies on BIMSTEC after SAARC failure’

    ‘Bangladesh relies on BIMSTEC after SAARC failure’

    DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh is hopeful of forging regional cooperation through BIMSTEC after the failure of SAARC, a top aide of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday.

    “In this context coming together in BIMSTEC is truly important. We already saw earlier SAARC with all our high hopes has not done much, and for the moment it is doubtful whether or not the next summit meeting will happen,” International Affairs Adviser Gowher Rizvi said at the opening of the BIMSTEC Network of Policy Think Tanks (BNPTT) meeting here at the Bay of Bengal grouping’s headquarters.

    He said Bangladesh hopes to make up through sub-regional cooperation including #BIMSTEC after the failure of SAARC, bdnews24.com reported. “We have seen NAFTA may or may not survive. We see European Union under challenge. In Bangladesh we see much of the future in the sub-region. It is the sub-region we are focused on. We have BBIN, BCIM and BIMSTEC… this is where we see our future,” Rizvi said, giving examples of the state of the regional groupings in the world. (PTI)