
India Resumes Bangladesh Tourist Visas | UPSCPDF
UPSCPDF Editorial Analysis: India resumes Bangladesh tourist visas (28 June 2026). Neighbourhood First, tourism data, GS-2 with MCQs, Mains, Essay, Interview.
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After a near two-year freeze, New Delhi reopens tourist visas for Bangladeshi nationals from 28 June 2026 — a confidence-building reset with Dhaka's new elected government that tests the balance between people-to-people ties, the tourism economy and national security. India will resume tourist visa services for Bangladeshi nationals from 28 June 2026, ending a suspension imposed in August 2024. The announcement was made on 26 June by Dinesh Trivedi, India's newly appointed High Commissioner to Bangladesh, at the Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) in Dhaka. Applications will initially be accepted at five centres — Dhaka, Chattogram (Chittagong), Rajshahi, Sylhet and Khulna — with plans to expand further. India had scaled down visa operations after 5 August 2024, when the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in Dhaka was ransacked and five IVACs were attacked amid the unrest that toppled the Sheikh Hasina government. Even so, the High Commission continued issuing over 1,500 visas a day
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