{"id":5328,"date":"2017-08-11T16:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digbazar.com\/bartaeng\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2017-08-11T16:52:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T10:52:18","slug":"cross-boreder-bangladesh-india-power-exchanging-upswing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/cross-boreder-bangladesh-india-power-exchanging-upswing\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Border power exchange with BD and others are rapidly growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday expressed satisfaction over rapid growing cross-border exchange of power among India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to note that cross-border exchange of power among India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh is on rapid upswing,\u201d she said while addressing 15th Bimstec Ministerial meeting in Kathmandu.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digbazar.com\/bartaeng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/nepal.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5331 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/digbazar.com\/bartaeng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/nepal-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"nepal cross border\" width=\"672\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>IN THE PHOTO: INDIA-NEPAL CROSS-BORDER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Indian Minister said energy is considered the engine of economic development and the region is blessed with abundant energy resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBimstec MoU on Grid Interconnection, which has been finalized, would further facilitate regional energy trade,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali also attended the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal Krishna Bahadur Mahara in the chair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digbazar.com\/bartaeng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bhutan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5332 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/digbazar.com\/bartaeng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bhutan-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"bhutan\" width=\"677\" height=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>IN THE PHOTO: INDIA-BHUTAN CROSS BORDER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bimstec has a combined GDP of over US$ 2.85 trillion and the member states think there remains an immense unfulfilled potential for deeper economic integration.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Minister said along with the work on Bimstec FTA, the Bimstec Trade Facilitation Agreement and the Bimstec Agreement on Mutual Assistance on Customs Matters would fasten trade, and must be concluded at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday expressed satisfaction over rapid growing cross-border exchange of power among India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. \u201cI\u2019m happy to note that cross-border exchange of power among India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh is on rapid upswing,\u201d she said while addressing 15th Bimstec Ministerial meeting in Kathmandu. IN THE PHOTO:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[75,805,806,807,808,809],"class_list":{"0":"post-5328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-bangladesh","9":"tag-bimstec","10":"tag-cross-border-power-exchange-with-bd-and-others-are-rapidly-growing","11":"tag-cross-boreder","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-power-exchanging"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}