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Before India terminated the transshipment facility for Bangladesh’s export cargo, trucks and consignments saw a sharp uptick at Petrapole, the nation’s largest land port, data shows.New Delhi halted transshipment facilities for the neighbouring country on April 8, days after Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus advocated the extension of the Chinese economy around the strategically important Northeast India region. India first allowed transshipment of export cargo from Bangladesh to third countries using Indian Land Customs Stations and subsequently Indian ports and airports on June 29, 2020. Story continues below this ad According to sources in the Petrapole Land Port’s customs department, in the financial year 2023-24, 3,373 trucks with transshipment commodities or ex...

New Delhi: India needs to “break up Bangladesh” to gain access to the Chittagong sea port, Pradyot Kishore Debbarma, the founder of BJP’s coalition partner in Tripura TIPRA Motha party, said Tuesday, joining the growing chorus against Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus’s remarks on India’s “landlocked” Northeastern states. Addressing a ‘High-level Roundtable on Sustainable Infrastructure and Energy’ in Beijing on 28 March, Yunus said that Bangladesh is the “only guardian of the ocean” in the region due to the landlocked nature of India’s Northeast. A two-minute-nineteen-second video clip of his speech was uploaded on Yunus’s official social media accounts. “Seven states of India, eastern part of India, called seven sisters. They are a landlocked region of India. They have no way to re...

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Bangladesh border port saw sharp uptick before India halted transshipment

‘Break up Bangladesh,’ says Pradyot joining Sarma, Sanyal in slamming Yunus for ‘landlocked’ remarks