“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...
Coronavirus outbreak has created a demand for pulse oximeters in the market and smugglers have found in it an opportunity to bring in Chinese-made devices into the country through the India-Bangladesh...
Cargo trucks from Bangladesh rolled into Indian territory on Sunday through two land ports in North 24-Parganas, Petrapole and Ghojadanga, after 102 days, amid murmurs that the Mamata Banerjee governm...
Export to Bangladesh through the Petrapole land port was suspended “indefinitely” since Wednesday morning after some Bangladeshi traders allegedly stopped the Indian cargo from entering Be...
Traders and clearing agents on Tuesday appealed to the North 24-Parganas district administration to issue “standard operating protocol” immediately for resumption of imports from Banglades...
Import and export resumed at the Petrapole land port on Thursday afternoon after the Indian and Bangladesh authorities agreed to transfer goods at the zero point of the international border.Sources sa...
West Bengal will resume bilateral trade with neighbouring Bangladesh through the Petrapole integrated checkpost in North 24 Parganas district on Sunday after more than a month, a senior official said....
At least 70 medical students from Kashmir, studying at various colleges in Bangladesh, reached the Petrapole border in North 24-Parganas, but immigration authorities denied them permission to enter In...
By Arkamoy Datta Majumdar and Subhasish Chaudhuri
in Calcutta
A programme organised close to the India-Bangladesh border to pay tributes to the martyrs of the 1952 language movement on Friday turned into a show of resistance against the Citizenship (Amendment) A...