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problems between Bangladesh and India.
Both Bangladesh and India make claims over the same sea water at the
Bay of Bengal.
There was a minor glitch in their relations when Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh accidentally mentioned that 25% of Bangladeshis are
anti-Indian, during an informal press meet.
Recent Developments
In September 2011, the two countries signed a major accord on border
demarcation to end the four-decade-old disputes over boundaries. India also
granted 24-hour access to Bangladeshi citizens in the Teen Bigha Corridor.
The agreement included an exchange of adversely-held enclaves, involving
51,000 people spread over 111 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh and 51
Bangladesh enclaves in India. The total land involved is reportedly 7,000
acres.
On 9 October 2011, Indian and Bangladeshi armies participated in
Sampriti-II (Unity-II), a 14-day-long joint military exercise at Sylhet to
increase synergy between their forces.
INDIA–NEPAL RELATIONS
Relations between India and Nepal are close, yet fraught with difficulties
stemming from geographical location, economics, the problems inherent in
big power-small power relations and common ethnic, linguistic and cultural
identities that overlap the two countries’ borders. New Delhi and Kathmandu
initiated their intertwined relationship with the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of
Peace and Friendship that defined security relations between the two
countries, and an agreement governing both bilateral trade and trade
transiting Indian soil. The 1950 treaty and letters stated that “neither
government shall tolerate any threat to the security of the other by a foreign
aggressor” and obligated both sides “to inform each other of any serious
