Dhaka, July 25 -- India continues to cold-shoulder requests for holding talks to resolve accumulating trade-related disputes, officials say, while Bangladesh businesses have to pay for abrupt shipment restrictions in particular.

In recent months, calls from Dhaka went unheeded for lifting the ban on trade carriage through land ports, holding bilateral commerce secretary-level meeting, and meeting of joint working group on trade, among others.

Sources guess political implications for the bilateral economic relations of late. Officials say after the August 2024 student-mass uprising, which ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, forcing her to take refuge in New Delhi, the government of India turned taciturn on any letters sent from B...