New Delhi, June 21 -- Amid renewed tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pahalgam terrorist attacks in India-administered Kashmir, and India's subsequent missile strikes in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under "Operation Sindoor", New Delhi remains focused on securing its western front. Even as India concentrates on countering threats along its western front, developments in its eastern neighbourhood are evolving in parallel, and with strategic consequence. The political transition in Bangladesh, in particular, is reshaping the regional calculus in ways that elevate strategic concerns and warrant close observation.

Since the fall of Sheikh Hasina's regime in August 2024, bilateral relations between Dhaka and New Delhi...