“Border tense as Bangladesh guards stop India from building fence”, Hindustan Times, August 24, 2024:
“Personnel of the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) stopped Border Security Force (BSF) officers from building a cattle fence near the India-Bangladesh border in Coochbehar, north Bengal on Thursday evening, further straining relations between the two countries amidst the political turmoil in Dhaka.
There was no violence, said people familiar with the matter, but the construction has now been put on hold and will be brought up during a meeting of the director generals of the two forces in Delhi this October.
“While our personnel were supervising the construction of the cattle fence, BGB personnel came over and objected. It was not even a border fence,” said a top BSF official aware of the issue.
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