CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The BSF is tasked to guard the 4, 096 km long international Indian front with Bangladesh on the country’s eastern flank. These talks were held annually between 1975-1992 but they were made bi-annual in 1993 with either side alternatively traveling to the national capitals of New Delhi and Dhaka.

Detailed explanation-2: -India is Bangladesh’s second-largest trading partner and Asia’s top market destination for exports. Bilateral trade between both countries increased at an unprecedented rate of approximately 44% from $10.78 billion in 2020-21 to $18.13 billion in 2021-22, despite Covid-19-related difficulties.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Prime Ministers of India and Bangladesh signed the Land Boundary Agreement in 1974 to exchange enclaves and simplify their international border. A revised version of the agreement was adopted by the two countries on 7 May 2015, when the Parliament of India passed the 100th Amendment to the Constitution of India.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hili is on the India-Bangladesh border, popularly identified as a porous border. 2, 216 km of the 4, 096 km long India-Bangladesh border falls in West Bengal. More than 11, 000 people live near/ around the zero line in Dakshin Dinajpur. Approximately 252 km of the international border is in Dakshin Dinajpur district.

Detailed explanation-5: -India was the first country to recognize Bangladesh as a separate and independent state and established diplomatic relations with the country immediately after its independence in December 1971.