LOOKEAST REPORT | Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has congratulated her Bangladesh counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali on his re–election in the 11th national parliamentary polls, an official release said. “Sushma called Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali yesterday to congratulate him on his election victory,” it added. Sushma Swaraj has said the…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has led her party to a third consecutive win in parliamentary polls, securing two–thirds majority in yesterday’s election held in an atmosphere dominated by the ruling party men. Hasina is set to become the prime minister for the third straight time — an unprecedented feat in the…
Read moreBARRISTER TUREEN AFROZ | It has been a long journey to accomplish an impossible mission! However, the Awami League–led government remained committed to hold the war crime trials against the local and international pressure and unwarranted conspiracy. Almost nearing nine years into the operations of the war crimes tribunals, the trials of war criminals about…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | The recently leaked seven–minute telephone conversation between senior BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and an agent of Pakistan’s Inter–Services Intelligence (ISI) has brought to light the Pakistani spy agency’s active effort to influence the Dec 30 parliament election. Bangladesh intelligence sources said their investigations have found that the ISI has been maintaining regular…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | The ruling Awami League is expected to return to power with majority of parliamentary seats in the upcoming election partly owing to its well–entrenched system of patronage at local level and also because it has overseen a period of solid economic growth, according to London–based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The EIU, however,…
Read moreSUBIR 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…
Read moreDHAKA | PRIME Minister Sheikh Hasina said that Bangladesh’s rapid economic expansion will pick up further momentum to hit 10% annual growth over the next three years. Ahead of a general election on Dec. 30, the 71–year–old leader said her nation will shed its “least developed country” status from 2024. Hasina has overseen nearly a…
Read moreISHRAT 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…
Read moreMK BHADRAKUMAR | THE G20 in Argentina last weekend turned out to be of great significance for India–China relations. On the sidelines of the event, PM Modi and President Xi Jinping had occasion to interact thrice — one bilateral meeting and a second meeting of BRICS leaders were scheduled in advance and then, lo and…
Read moreFRANCESCO SISCI | FOR 40 years the US worked to smoothly integrate China into the world. Today America has apparently given up on this plan and in any case at the end of the 90 days of truce agreed in the summit between American and Chinese presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, there will be…
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Prasanta Paul | OIL India Limited (OIL) has stepped up exploration and supportive logistic work in the wake of striking… Read more…
Human Language Is 135,000 Years Old ?
Prasanta Paul | WHEN did homo sapiens start using words or to be specific – a language – for communication… Read more…
Aravalli | An Uncertain Road Ahead
Dr Manas Das | THERE seems to be a temporary lull among environmental activists and civil society as the Supreme… Read more…
Election Commission of India has decided to deploy at least 480 companies of Central Forces in various troubled parts of West Bengal from March 1
