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India, Bangladesh swap land and people, settling old border dispute
Kurigram,Bangladesh : life of people after Bangladesh and India officially exchanged the adversely possessed enclaves at Dashiarchhara in in Kurigram district is 240 kilometers (150 miles) north of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015. Tens of thousands of stateless people who were stranded for decades along the poorly defined border between India and Bangladesh can finally choose their citizenship, as the two countries swapped more than 150 pockets of land at the stroke of midnight Friday to settle the demarcation line dividing them (Photo by Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/NurPhoto)
