MEA remains silent on Bangladesh crisis as Sheikh Hasina resigns Despite dramatic developments in Dhaka and the arrival of outgoing Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Hindon airbase outside Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs made no statement about the situation in Bangladesh or on Ms. Hasina on Monday. Sources said that the MEA, headed by External Affairs Minister S.

Jaishankar and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, was engaged in a number of meetings within the government as well as with military officials as soon as news broke of Ms. Hasina’s resignation, and then her decision to fly to India as she awaits asylum abroad. Preamble of the Constitution dropped from select new NCERT textbooks The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has dropped the Preamble to the Constitution from several Class 3 and 6 textbooks issued this year.

In the old textbooks for Class 6, the Preamble was printed in the the English book Honey Suckle , the Science book, Hindi textbook Durva , and all three Social Science books — Our Pasts-I , Social and Political Life-I , and The Earth Our Habitat . Train services between India, Bangladesh suspended after Sheikh Hasina’s resignation The Indian Railways on August 5 suspended all train operations to Bangladesh amid the unrest in the neighbouring country where Sheikh Hasina has resigned as the Prime Minister and fled following protests. A rocket attack at an Iraqi military base injures U.

S. personnel Several U..