Dhaka, April 30 -- Bangladesh has summoned India's Acting High Commissioner Pawan Badhe, protesting "insulting" comments by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over pushbacks into Bangladesh.

Israt Jahan, head of the South Asia Wing at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, delievered a formal protest note during a meeting with the Indian envoy at the ministry on Thursday afternoon.

A senior foreign ministry official confirmed that Dhaka expressed "strong" resentment over the Assam CM's decision to label pushed-back individuals as "Bangladeshis".

The official noted that such remarks are "derogatory" and counterproductive to the bilateral relationship between the two neighbouring countries.

The diplomatic tension follows a post by Himan...