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From over Rs 4000 crores to zero: At nation's biggest land port after Delhi’s curbs on Bangladeshi readymade garments
June 07, 2025 9:20 am
On April 8, New Delhi stopped transshipment facilities for Bangladesh, days after Muhammad Yunus, the country’s chief advisor, advocated for expanding the Chinese economic presence in the strategically important Northeast region.
Night vision cameras, alarms deployed along unfenced border with Bangladesh
January 09, 2025 4:30 am
BSF says jawans have themselves improvised the fence using wire in unfenced zone of the border
'We will see how they will eat potatoes': Suvendu Adhikari warns of non-stop border blockade as thousands gather to protest in Petrapole against monk arrest
December 03, 2024 12:57 pm
Slams Mamata over UN peacekeeper demand: ‘Trying to shrug off responsibility’
'They're breaking Mujib’s statues, will they keep currency with his picture?': Fears of money exchangers along Indo-Bangla border
August 13, 2024 7:25 pm
The money exchangers convert Indian rupees to Bangladeshi Taka (1 Bangladeshi taka = 0.71 INR) and also exchange Dollars at the border for both Indians visiting Bangladesh and vice-versa.
‘We are scared... Don’t know what will happen when we return home' : at Petrapole land port on Bangladesh border
August 07, 2024 10:00 am
Russel Mondol (21), a resident of Jhenaidah, studies engineering at a college in Meghalaya. Entering India through the border check-post, he said: “I saw with my own eyes miscreants looting shops and setting fire to them. Houses of Awami League leaders are being ransacked and set on fire.”
Exports stalled at South Asia’s biggest land port Petrapole amid unrest in Bangladesh
July 21, 2024 7:28 am
Only 40 trucks have crossed from the Indian side to the Bangladesh side of the land port since 10 am on Saturday, said officials at the Petrapole border.
Trucks stuck at Petrapole, MHA reminds Bengal govt to reopen land port
May 07, 2020 12:50 pm
The MHA also said the state was violating the Centre's guidelines that movement of goods trucks could not be stopped.
Protests force Petrapole, India’s biggest land port, to close again
May 05, 2020 10:52 am
Though only two trucks were unloaded that day, 18 more could offload their cargo before the movement of goods trucks from the Indian side was again halted on Monday.
Three weeks and counting: Stranded and hungry at Petrapole, India's largest land port
April 13, 2020 10:23 am
Covid-19: An estimated 2100 trucks, their drivers and helpers are stuck at Petrapole in West Bengal on the India-Bangladesh border owing to the lockdown.
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