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In Historic Land Swap at Midnight, 14,000 Bangladeshis Become Indians
Jubilant crowds celebrated after India and Bangladesh, at one minute past midnight on Saturday, swapped tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for nearly 70 years.
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Meet India's 'Vicky Donors' Who Run Out of Work Tonight
When he was born, his parents named him Rubel Rana - a wholesome Bangladeshi name. But at age 6, he was enrolled in school as Anisur Rehman, son of a man named Sayyed Ali Mondal who was, in fact, a distant relative, and an Indian.
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A Pin Code: That Will be India's First Gift to 14,000 New Citizens Today
At midnight on Friday, when India and Bangladesh officially swap land, the District Magistrate of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, P Ulaganathan, will experience what a civil servant might have experienced at Independence.
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No Longer an Enclave, Indians Opt for Dhaka
The excitement over the Land Boundary Agreement may have ebbed in Delhi and Dhaka, but in 111 enclaves in Bangladesh that were Indian till Saturday, people are still celebrating their homecoming.
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PM Narendra Modi Thanks Opposition Leaders For Support to Land Boundary Bill
As Parliament passed a "landmark" bill to settle the 41-year-old border issue with Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today thanked leaders of all Opposition parties for their support and said a "historic milestone" has been reached in India-Bangladesh ties.
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Hope for Indo-Bangladesh enclaves
During Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's Bangladesh visit last week, New Delhi and Dhaka signed the historic agreement on demarcation of land boundaries - the two countries agreed to resolved the status of enclaves and adversely possessed areas.
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India to lose 10,000 acres in land swap deal with Bangladesh
India and Bangladesh are gearing up to solve a protracted cross-border land conflict. Both nations are preparing for a land swap of enclaves or pieces of land which lie in each other's territories.These enclaves are pieces of land that the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and Rangpur won or lost in gambling and have existed since 1947. But, soon after Bangl...
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In Historic Land Swap at Midnight, 14,000 Bangladeshis Become Indians
Jubilant crowds celebrated after India and Bangladesh, at one minute past midnight on Saturday, swapped tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for nearly 70 years.
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Meet India's 'Vicky Donors' Who Run Out of Work Tonight
When he was born, his parents named him Rubel Rana - a wholesome Bangladeshi name. But at age 6, he was enrolled in school as Anisur Rehman, son of a man named Sayyed Ali Mondal who was, in fact, a distant relative, and an Indian.
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A Pin Code: That Will be India's First Gift to 14,000 New Citizens Today
At midnight on Friday, when India and Bangladesh officially swap land, the District Magistrate of Cooch Behar in West Bengal, P Ulaganathan, will experience what a civil servant might have experienced at Independence.
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No Longer an Enclave, Indians Opt for Dhaka
The excitement over the Land Boundary Agreement may have ebbed in Delhi and Dhaka, but in 111 enclaves in Bangladesh that were Indian till Saturday, people are still celebrating their homecoming.
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PM Narendra Modi Thanks Opposition Leaders For Support to Land Boundary Bill
As Parliament passed a "landmark" bill to settle the 41-year-old border issue with Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today thanked leaders of all Opposition parties for their support and said a "historic milestone" has been reached in India-Bangladesh ties.
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Hope for Indo-Bangladesh enclaves
During Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's Bangladesh visit last week, New Delhi and Dhaka signed the historic agreement on demarcation of land boundaries - the two countries agreed to resolved the status of enclaves and adversely possessed areas.
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India to lose 10,000 acres in land swap deal with Bangladesh
India and Bangladesh are gearing up to solve a protracted cross-border land conflict. Both nations are preparing for a land swap of enclaves or pieces of land which lie in each other's territories.These enclaves are pieces of land that the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and Rangpur won or lost in gambling and have existed since 1947. But, soon after Bangl...
