Export to Bangladesh was suspended for about five hours on Wednesday as Indian drivers demonstrated on the “zero line” of the international border near the Petrapole land port to protest a...

The state health department has begun collecting two swab samples each from people who are entering India from Bangladesh through the Petrapole and Ghojadanga land ports to track the possible carriers...

At least eight export-bound trailers carrying a large consignment of cotton bales, synthetic yarn and textile material, worth around Rs 20 crore, were gutted at a private parking lot near the Petrapol...

A truck driver and his assistant, both Indian nationals, were arrested by the Border Security Force allegedly for illegally dealing in foreign currency through the Petrapole international land port on...

A consignment of 30 ambulances offered by India as a gift to Bangladesh to help fight Covid-19 has been cleared for movement on a priority basis. The vehicles will set out for Dhaka from the Petrapol...

Border Security Force (BSF) personnel seized 30 gold biscuits, weighing 3.5 kilos and worth around Rs 1.72 crore, from a truck driver when he was leaving the Petrapole international cargo port in Nort...

An organisation of clearing agents and labourers who work for exporters and importers at the Petrapole land port in North 24-Parganas have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing the Land Po...

The sudden restriction on movement of people through land borders between India and Bangladesh put hundreds of Bangladeshis — most of whom had come to Calcutta on medical visa — in a quand...

“Our lives are beholden to the Border Security Force outpost, really,” he said pointing to his right just as a BSF jawan got off his outpost to adjust the octogenarian’s mask for a t...

Export and import operations with Bangladesh are likely to take a hit at the Petrapole land port starting Monday following an announcement of strikes by three truck drivers’ unions to protest ag...