[🇧🇩] Indo-Bangla Relation: India's Regional Ambition, Geopolitical Reality, and Strategic Options For Bangladesh

[Krishna with Flute]

Restrictions meant Gujarati and Maratha onion growers were threatening suicide, per your media. Onion prices had dipped to unsustainable levels because of export restriction recently per your media. Even before that, there was an onion glut.

The onion export restriction was a bad geo-political move toward Bangladesh which back-fired on the Modi govt.

Just an effed up situation and horrible anti-people moves - as is typical for Modi Govt.

Onion export ban triggers protests among farmers, traders in Gujarat

Farmers & traders in Gujarat protest Centre's overnight ban on onion export, causing prices to crash & disrupting trading.

www.thehindu.com

Instead of bring ideas by quoting your unverified "logic" - I suggest quoting credible news sources.

I have quoted your post and explained what it means. You are contradicting yourself.

Rathar than doing chest thumping of onion import from Egypt than from India, you should ask yourself why BD need to import even onion, rice and wheat like items. You guys are not even self sufficient to produce your food. You are proudly post the news that BD imported onion from Egypt than from India.

 

[Bilal9]

I have quoted your post and explained what it means. You are contradicting yourself.

Rathar than doing chest thumping of onion import from Egypt than from India, you should ask yourself why BD need to import even onion, rice and wheat like items. You guys are not even self sufficient to produce your food. You are proudly post the news that BD imported onion from Egypt than from India.

You don't understand the basics of supply/demand.

We consume far more in onions than we produce, so we have to import. We produced around 33 Lakh tonnes of Onion last year. Same with Rice - where we have to import because we consume far more than we produce. We don't eat that much wheat.

In fact every year, the onion production exceeds that of previous year. We don't have drought like in India's Western onion growing areas.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/agriculture/334434/chapainawabganj-farmers-reap-benefits-of-bumper

Our cost of agri production is also higher than India because of rapid industrialization. People have better jobs than farming, unlike India. Hard to find people in Bangladesh for lower wage farming.

In India majority jobs found are in low-wage farming. Therefore India's agri (onion) production costs are far lower.

There are about 20 plus lakhs of illegal Indian workers working in Bangladeshi factories because of job shortages in India and even then, far lower wages than Bangladesh. We allow them to stay and work because we need people to work our export industries. Instead of Shokar Gujari - Indians think that it is some kind of power that their illegal Millions are working in Bangladesh.

The habit of chest-thumping is endemic to India under Modi, not Bangladesh. We don't have to get votes for BJP.

Indians hardly consume anything. Avg. Indian spending on groceries is probably half that of Pakistani or Bangladeshi people.

Bangladesh's onion production on track to topple previous records

While onion farmers in other major growing, such as Rajbari and Pabna, are also eyeing bumper yields, their profits could be constricted by the rapid rise in production costs.

asianews.network

 

[Krishna with Flute]

You don't understand the basics of supply/demand.

We consume far more in onions than we produce, so we have to import. We produced around 33 Lakh tonnes last year.

In fact every year, the onion production exceeds that of previous year. We don't have drought like in India's Western onion growing areas.

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/agriculture/334434/chapainawabganj-farmers-reap-benefits-of-bumper

Our cost of agri production is also higher than India because of rapid industrialization. People have better jobs than farming, unlike India, where majority jobs found are in low-wage farming. Hard to find people to where farming offers lower wages.

There are about 20 plus lakhs of illegal Indian workers working in Bangladeshi factories. We allow them to stay and work because we need people to work our export industries. Instead of Shokar Gujari - Indians think that it is some kind of power that their illegal Millions are working in Bangladesh.

The habit of chest-thumping is endemic to India under Modi, not Bangladesh. We don't have to get votes for BJP.

Indians hardly consume anything. Avg. Indian spending on groceries is probably half that of Pakistani or Bangladeshi people.

Bangladesh's onion production on track to topple previous records

While onion farmers in other major growing, such as Rajbari and Pabna, are also eyeing bumper yields, their profits could be constricted by the rapid rise in production costs.

asianews.network

That is what exactly I told you that you are unable to produce the food you consume. Batter not talk on Industrialization as Gautam adani's networth is higher than the value of BD's capital market.

 

[Bilal9]

That is what exactly I told you that you are unable to produce the food you consume. Batter not talk on Industrialization as Gautam adani's networth is higher than the value of BD's capital market.

Your "logic" is non-existent. I am done with you and will stop answering your posts after this.
It is a lost cause.

Self-sufficiency in agri products like onions or rice is not something to boast about. No one cares. These are widely-traded commodities globally.

Please correct your spelling before you post. It is embarrassing.

Gautam Adani is a massive fraudster and this has been well-proven.

Swiss freeze $310m linked to Adani as fraud claims resurface

New documents published this week reveal that fraud allegations made against Adani appear to have been on the radar of regulators in Switzerland for years.

www.theeastafrican.co.ke

India’s Richest Man Accused of Pulling the ‘Largest Con in Corporate History’

A two-year investigation by a short seller claims Adani Group engaged in accounting fraud worth billions of dollars.

time.com

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/adani-vs-hindenburg-research-what-you-need-know-2024-01-03/

 

[PakistanProud]

New American delegation re-iterates idea on working directly with Bangladesh bypassing Indian interference.

I see 'Donald Lu' in the midst there. Be very wary of him as he was one of the leading figures to oust Imran Khan.

 

[Bilal9]

I see 'Donald Lu' in the midst there. Be very wary of him as he was one of the leading figures to oust Imran Khan.

Yes - well noted.

But we have no option for now other than playing nice with the US.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

I see 'Donald Lu' in the midst there. Be very wary of him as he was one of the leading figures to oust Imran Khan.

He is the one involved in ouster of Hasina as well.

 

[Saif]

Bangladesh not exporting hilsa to India this year

Bangladesh will not export hilsa fish to India on the occasion of Durga Puja in October, according to a top commerce ministry official, discontinuing a long-standing tradition of the country as a “goodwill gesture” to its neighbour.

www.thedailystar.net

Bangladesh not exporting hilsa to India this year

Bangladesh will not export hilsa fish to India on the occasion of Durga Puja in October, according to a top commerce ministry official, discontinuing a long-standing tradition of the country as a "goodwill gesture" to its neighbour.

The decision of the export ban is to ensure adequate hilsa supply in the local market so that the prized fish remains more accessible to people, according to authorities.

This stand by the interim government marks a clear departure from the deposed Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government.

During the puja festival, Bangladesh, the largest producer of hilsa, usually relaxes the ban on exports of the fish, a sought-after delicacy especially in India's West Bengal.

Hilsa consignments from Dhaka are treated as a gift to Indian people from Bangladesh during the biggest religious fest for Hindu people.

"We have around 50 applications pending for exporting the fish to India," said a senior commerce ministry official. "But we have not received any export permission from the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock this year."

As per policy, the commerce ministry permits the export of any goods based on the opinion of the ministry concerned.

In the case of hilsa, the fisheries and livestock ministry did not allow for exports this year, the official said, requesting not to be named.

Farida Akhtar, adviser to the fisheries and livestock ministry, in multiple media interviews said the interim government wants to increase hilsa supply in the domestic market.

In fiscal 2023-24, Bangladesh exported 664.86 tonnes of hilsa to India at $7.71 million, according to data from the Department of Fisheries.

In fiscal 2022-23, Bangladesh exported 1,376.42 tonnes of hilsa worth $13.68 million, the data shows.

Demand for the fish is also high in Bangladesh. Despite an uptick in hilsa hauls in recent years, the fish still remains pricier in the local market.

In fiscal 2022-23, Bangladesh produced a total of 571,342 tonnes of hilsa. In fiscal 2021-22, the production of hilsa was 566,593 tonnes, shows fisheries data.

Hilsa is netted from rivers in August and September, when the fish comes into rivers from the Bay of Bengal to lay eggs. Fishers catch up to 600,000 tonnes of the fish annually, with a majority of the haul coming from the sea.

In 2017, hilsa was recognised as a geographical indicator for the country.

Despite being the national fish, buying hilsa still is a luxury for many in the marginal class.

In Dhaka, a piece of hilsa weighing one kilogramme (kg) is being sold between Tk 1,400 and Tk 1,600 at retail. Hilsa weighing below one kg is priced between Tk 1,100 and Tk 1,200 per kg at retail.​

 

[Saif]

Bangladesh for working relations with Delhi on mutual respect: adviser

Foreign adviser to the interim government, Md Touhid Hossain, said on Saturday that Dhaka would like to maintain working relations with New Delhi on the basis of...

www.newagebd.net

Bangladesh for working relations with Delhi on mutual respect: adviser
Staff Correspondent 21 September, 2024, 16:39

Foreign adviser to the interim government Md Touhid Hossain.

Foreign adviser to the interim government, Md Touhid Hossain, said on Saturday that Dhaka would like to maintain working relations with New Delhi on the basis of mutual respect by removing ongoing tension between the two neighbours.

Admitting the current strain in the India-Bangladesh relations, he said that it was necessary to admit problem if there was any to resolve that.

‘We must recognise that there is a kind of tension in our relations with India at the moment. We can resolve the problem and maintain working relations with them on the basis of mutual respect,’ Touhid, also a retired diplomat, told a press briefing on Bangladesh’s participation in the 79th United Nations General Assembly at the foreign ministry.

He expressed his belief that it was possible to advance bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh on the basis of mutual respect and fairness.

Responding to another question, he said that there was no possibility of any meeting between chief adviser to the interim government, Professor Muhammad Yunus, and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the UNGA, saying that ‘Modi is scheduled to leave New York before Professor Yunus is to reach there’.

The foreign adviser, however, said that he would have a bilateral meeting with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar on the sidelines of the UNGA.

He said that the chief adviser was expected to join bilateral talks with the prime minister of Pakistan, the prime minister of the Netherlands and the prime minister of Nepal.

He would also join a meeting with the United States secretary of state Antony Blinken on the sidelines.

Touhid said that Professor Yunus would leave Dhaka for New York on September 23 by a commercial flight with a 57-member delegation unlike previous years with more than 100 delegates by chartered flights.

Concluding his three-day trip, the chief adviser would leave for Bangladesh on September 27, he added.

This would be the first foreign trip of Professor Yunus after he took over as the chief adviser to the interim government on August 8 following the fall of autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India amid a student-led mass uprising on August 5.

Asked whether the government was taking any move to bring back Hasina, now facing dozens of cases on charges of murders and committing crimes against humanity, Touhid iterated that they would follow a judicial process in this regard.

Asked about Bangladesh’s focus in the UNGA, he said that the chief adviser was expected to present an account of the student-led mass uprising in Bangladesh behind the political changeover leading to the formation of the interim government and his reform agenda in various sectors to the international communities.​

 

[Saif]

Biden, Modi talk about Bangladesh

The developments in Bangladesh came up during discussions between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the former’s personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday.

www.thedailystar.net

Biden, Modi talk about Bangladesh

File photo: US President Joe Biden and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet with senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies in the East Room of the White House in Washington, US, June 23, 2023. File photo: Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein

The developments in Bangladesh came up during discussions between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the former's personal residence in Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday.

Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said there was also an exchange of views between Modi and Biden about the situation in Bangladesh.

Vikram's remarks came during a media briefing in Washington in reply to a question from India's state-owned TV channel Doordarshan journalist if Bangladesh was a part of the discussions between the two leaders and if he could share the contours of the discussion.

"Look, as I said, these discussions cover subjects that are in the region. They may be of bilateral interest to one party or the other, but they do have significance beyond the region as well. In this context, a number of situations came up for discussion. Bangladesh also figured in the discussions, and there was an exchange of views with regard to the situation there."

Vikram did not elaborate further.

This was the first time that Bangladesh came up in the discussions between Modi and Biden in their first in-person bilateral meeting since the change of guard in that country after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister on August 5 in the face of a student-led mass movement that led to her escape to India.

The Modi-Biden sharing views on Bangladesh came in the backdrop of reports that the chief adviser of Bangladesh's interim government Prof Muhammad Yunus may meet Biden in the US later this week.

The possibility of a first in-person meeting between Modi and Yunus has been dashed as the chief adviser is going to the US only after Modi returns to India from his three-day visit to the US.​