India Report: Government tightens security at the eastern border amid violence in Bangladesh

Listen to the latest SBS Hindi news from India. 22/12/2025

Bangladesh security personnel stand guard in front of the burnt office of the Daily Star newspaper that was vandalized in violence following the death of a prominent activist in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 December 2025. Demonstrations broke out on 18 December after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, the spokesperson of the student protest group Inqilab Mancha, who died of his injuries in a Singapore hospital where he had been receiving treatment after being shot in Dhaka. Source: EPA / MONIRUL ALAM/EPA

• India has increased vigilance on its eastern border and closed the visa office in Chittagong as violence erupts in Bangladesh after the murder of an anti-Sheikh Hasina leader.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has raised the infiltrator pitch once again in the eastern Indian states of Assam and West Bengal.
• The BJP-led coalition wins big in the local body elections in the western state of Maharashtra.
• Rising pollution has brought people and environmentalists together in the capital, Delhi, and neighbouring states, to save the Aravali, the oldest mountain range. 
• The Indian women's team wins the first T20 against Sri Lanka by 8 wickets.

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