India-Bangladesh Ties: Shashi Tharoor-Led Panel Flags 'Biggest Strategic Challenge Since 1971'

In this breaking news report, India Today's Foreign Affairs Editor Pranay Upadhyay details the damning findings of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, chaired by Shashi Tharoor. The committee's report, presented in Parliament today, terms the current situation in Bangladesh as the 'biggest strategic challenge for India since the 1971 war'. Pranay Upadhyay highlights that the report comes amidst rising tensions, citing the recent targeting of the Indian Assistant High Commission in Rajshahi by protesters. The programme explores the committee's concerns over growing anti-India sentiment under the Muhammad Yunus government and the potential for the situation to worsen ahead of the upcoming elections in February.