Bangladesh, India open border bazaar

Bangladesh and India on Saturday opened a bazaar along their border as part of new moves to improve ties between the south Asian neighbours, officials said. Bangladesh Commerce Minister Mohammad Faruk Khan and his Indian counterpart, Anand Sharma, inaugurated the "Border Haat" (bazaar) along the frontier of Kurigram in northern Bangladesh and the eastern Indian state of Meghalaya.
"The two ministers opened the Border Haat along the border by hoisting the national flags of the two nations," Bangladesh commerce ministry official Mokabbir Hossain told AFP by phone. He said people living within a five-kilometre (three-mile) radius of the market will be allowed to sell goods produced or manufactured in the two countries.