BanglaCapsule | Bangladesh India Relations Timeline  

1971 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said today the time was not yet ripe for India to recognize the rebel Bangla Desh (Bengal Nation) government in East Pakistan.
Google
1971 India recognizes Bangladesh as an independent nation.
Google
1972 Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) was established in Dhaka, pursuant to the joint declaration of the prime ministers of Bangladesh and India signed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Mrs Indira Gandhi.
Google
1972 India and Bangladesh sign friendship treaty.
Google
1972 India agreed to initially deliver 150 POWs, including A.A.K. Niazi against whom Bangladesh gathered evidence of atrocities, to Bangladesh for the trial.
Google
1972 The statute of the Indo Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission (JRC) was signed in Dhaka.
Google
1974 A tripartite agreement was signed between Bangladesh, India and Pakistan regarding post-war humanitarian issues.
Google
1983 Over 2,000 people, mostly Muslims of Bangladeshi origin, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.
Google
1992 'Tin Bigha Day' protest in India of corridor opening to Bangladesh.
Google
1992 India leases Tin Bigha corridor to Bangladesh.
Google
1996 Ganges Water Sharing Treaty between the Governments of Bangladesh and India on sharing of the Ganga/Ganges waters at Farakka was signed by the two Prime Ministers.
Google
1999 India and Bangladesh border guards had a shootout that left 6 people dead and 60 wounded.
Google
2001 The Supreme Court of India expressed the fear that unchecked migration of the citizens of Bangladesh to India will pose a threat, both to the economy and the security of the country.
Google
2001 Border fighting between Bangladesh and India left 16 Indian and 2 Bangladeshi soldiers dead.
Google
2004 India and Bangladesh ended a two-day meeting in Dhaka without any breakthroughs on the sharing of water from common rivers.
Google
2004 Indian officials said they have fenced nearly 40 percent of the porous border with Bangladesh and would fence the entire frontier by March 2006 to prevent movement of insurgents, illegal immigrants and smuggling.
Google
2004 India's Border Security Force (BSF) asked Bangladeshi authorities to hand over 126 Indian insurgents, including top leaders of guerrilla groups it says are based in the neighboring country.
Google
2005 Indian border guards killed 3 Bangladeshi villagers after they had strayed across the border near the eastern Bangladesh town of Akhaura.
Google
2009 Former Indian president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (11th president of India), arrives in Dhaka on a three-day visit.
Google
2021 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Dhaka for a two-day visit to join celebrations marking 50 years of the country’’s independence. The visit also coincided with the birth centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. His visit sparked violent protests resulting in 12 deaths in the country.
Google
2025 Chief Adviser of Bangladeshi Interim government Muhammad Yunus and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi met each other for the first time since the ouster of Hasina in August 2024. Both leaders engaged in a bilateral meeting in the sideline of 6th BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok.
Google