New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- External affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has called out leaders of Bangladesh's interim government for making "absolutely ridiculous" charges against India, days after meeting Touhid Hassan, his counterpart from the neighbouring country's caretaker administration, in Oman, amid unprecedented strain in ties between the two nations.

"If every day, someone in the interim government stands up and blames India for everything.some of those things if you look at the reports, are absolutely ridiculous. You cannot, on the one hand, say that 'I would now like to have good relations with you', but I wake up every morning and blame you for everything that goes wrong. It is a decision that they must make," S Jaishankar ...