SUBIR BHAUMIK | A long exercise over determining citizenship in India’s northeastern state of Assam may end up…
DHAKA | PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh’s rapid economic expansion will pick up further momentum…
LOOKEAST REPORT | THE ULFA has issued a denial yet again, saying the interview of its military…
KOLKATA | SUSPICIOUS signals in coded languages in an around Kolkata for the past few weeks have…
Associated Press | AN American adventurer who kayaked to a remote Indian island populated by a tribe…
Around 3 Million Face Non–Inclusion in Assam
SUBIR BHAUMIK | A long exercise over determining citizenship in India's northeastern state of Assam may end up rendering around three million people stateless. Four million people, mostly Bengali Hindus and Muslims, were not included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft that was published in July this year. Those excluded were asked to file claims for inclusion in NRC by Dec 31st 2018. With the deadline approaching, just over half a million of these excluded people have been able to file claims. The remaining more than three million have not filed claims, perhaps because they have no fresh documentary evidence to submit in addition to those already deposited with the authorities. More than twenty Bengali Hindus and Muslims have committed suicide so far after… …. →
Sino–Indian Rivalry for Influence in Bangladesh
ISHRAT HOSSAIN | INDIA should not be worried about Bangladesh’s close ties with China; the cooperation is meant only for development’, reassured Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina while speaking to a visiting delegation of Indian journalists recently. Statements of this kind from Bangladesh’s leader point to a new reality for the country, where balancing two of Asia’s rising powers is slowly becoming the diplomatic mainstay. As the strategic rivalry between India and China intensifies, Bangladesh increasingly… …. →
SUBIR BHAUMIK | A long exercise over determining citizenship in India’s northeastern state of Assam may end up…
DHAKA | PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh’s rapid economic expansion will pick up further momentum…
ISHRAT HOSSAIN | INDIA should not be worried about Bangladesh’s close ties with China; the cooperation is…
MK BHADRAKUMAR | THE G20 in Argentina last weekend turned out to be of great significance for…
FRANCESCO SISCI | FOR 40 years the US worked to smoothly integrate China into the world. Today…
LOOKEAST REPORT | BUOYED by successful trial of cargo movement to Bangladesh via the inland waterways protocol…
LAPHAI SENG RAW | The words of Archbishop Oscar Romero are as poignant today as when first…
LOOKEAST REPORT | At least 10,000 farmers, Bargadars and agricultural workers launched a massive march towards Kolkata…
LOOKEAST REPORT | HIZB–ut–Tahrir supporters marched without fear in Dhaka on Monday with police nowhere in sight….
LOOKEAST REPORT | THE ULFA has issued a denial yet again, saying the interview of its military…
SUBIR BHAUMIK | A long exercise over determining citizenship in India’s northeastern state of Assam may end up…
LAPHAI SENG RAW | The words of Archbishop Oscar Romero are as poignant today as when first…
LOOKEAST REPORT | At least 10,000 farmers, Bargadars and agricultural workers launched a massive march towards Kolkata…
LOOKEAST REPORT | HIZB–ut–Tahrir supporters marched without fear in Dhaka on Monday with police nowhere in sight….
LOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | NOW that the Jamaat–e–Islami is sure that BNP will contest the forthcoming Bangladesh polls,…
LOOKEAST REPORT | Police vehicles have been set on fire by BNP activists in Naya Paltan during…
TAHSEEN ALI | Bangladesh is preparing for national elections at the end of the year. As usual,…
DHAKA | The Bangladesh Election Commission rescheduled the 11th parliamentary election fixing the last date of nomination…
DHAKA | BSS Bangladesh Election Commission set December 23 for the 11th parliamentary election. “The voting will…
DHAKA | BSS The much–anticipated dialogue between the 14–party alliance and the National Unity Front (NUF) kicked…
DHAKA | PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh’s rapid economic expansion will pick up further momentum…
ISHRAT HOSSAIN | INDIA should not be worried about Bangladesh’s close ties with China; the cooperation is…
MK BHADRAKUMAR | THE G20 in Argentina last weekend turned out to be of great significance for…
FRANCESCO SISCI | FOR 40 years the US worked to smoothly integrate China into the world. Today…
LOOKEAST REPORT | BUOYED by successful trial of cargo movement to Bangladesh via the inland waterways protocol…
LOOKEAST REPORT | At least 10,000 farmers, Bargadars and agricultural workers launched a massive march towards Kolkata…
DHAKA | Bangladesh cabinet endorsed a protocol signed with India to dredge out about 470 kilometre river…
AGARTALA | The Tripura government will soon start dialogue for purchase of 26% equity shares of the…
LOOKEAST REPORT | Deeper regional trade and connectivity has the potential to more than triple India’s trade…
STEPHEN LEAHY | The world’s rarest great ape, discovered only in 2017, will not survive the building…
SUBIR BHAUMIK | A long exercise over determining citizenship in India’s northeastern state of Assam may end up…
DHAKA | PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh’s rapid economic expansion will pick up further momentum…
ISHRAT HOSSAIN | INDIA should not be worried about Bangladesh’s close ties with China; the cooperation is…
MK BHADRAKUMAR | THE G20 in Argentina last weekend turned out to be of great significance for…
FRANCESCO SISCI | FOR 40 years the US worked to smoothly integrate China into the world. Today…
LAPHAI SENG RAW | The words of Archbishop Oscar Romero are as poignant today as when first…
LOOKEAST REPORT | HIZB–ut–Tahrir supporters marched without fear in Dhaka on Monday with police nowhere in sight….
LOOKEAST REPORT | THE ULFA has issued a denial yet again, saying the interview of its military…
KOLKATA | SUSPICIOUS signals in coded languages in an around Kolkata for the past few weeks have…
GUNJAN SINGH | It is essential at this time to reanalyse India–Bhutan relations in the backdrop of…
LAPHAI SENG RAW | The words of Archbishop Oscar Romero are as poignant today as when first…
YANGON | Eight months pregnant, shamed by her family and shunned by the father of her child,…
COX’S BAZAR & YANGON | Dozens of Rohingya Muslim families on a list of refugees set to…
BELINDA GOLDSMITH | An Indian campaigner supporting women survivors of violence in northeast India was named as…
LOOKEAST REPORT | Indian media came down heavily on ruling Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah’s reference…
LOOKEAST REVIEW | The book, A Mandala of 21st Century Perspectives, is the proceedings of the international…
LOOKEAST REPORT | There is huge potential for entrepreneurship in solar energy but businesspersons in eastern India…
LOOKEAST REPORT | The student protests in Bangladesh for road safety has come to an end. Prime…
ANINDITA DASGUPTA | Ever since the time of Independence, the constant political refrain in this pivotal state…
LOOKEAST REPORT | Assam will release the second draft of its National Register of Citizens. If the name…
Bangladesh | Jaamat—BNP Parleys
LOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | NOW that the Jamaat–e–Islami is sure that BNP will contest the forthcoming Bangladesh polls, it has decided… Read more…
RIC | Finally Modi Gets His Foreign Policy Right
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