Overview

• Brig Gen Md Nazim-ud-Daula says the Lalmonirhat upgrade will support a new aerospace university and bar any foreign activity that could threaten Bangladesh’s security.
• India has fast-tracked modernization of Kailashahar airport in Tripura to add runway capacity for the Indian Air Force near the Siliguri Corridor.
• Muhammad Yunus’s earlier China visit and request for Beijing’s help on the airbase fueled New Delhi’s alarm despite Dhaka’s insistence there is no Chinese involvement.
• Bangladesh has proposed a Commerce Secretary–level meeting with New Delhi to resolve recent Indian restrictions on Bangladeshi exports and avoid further trade escalation.
• Analysts warn that both the Rakhine corridor proposal and the airbase project are heightening strategic competition and testing civil-military coordination in Bangladesh.