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CEPA | Understanding India–Bangladesh Economic Partnership
— September 15, 2022

DOREEN CHOWDHURY | BANGLADESH and India enjoy cooperation and warm relations in almost every area. Throughout history, both countries have also cultured an economic and trade dependency. At present both countries are experiencing high growth. To consolidate their growth and interdependency, they have embarked on signing a comprehensive economic partnership agreement, titled the Bangladesh–India Comprehensive…
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Burma | Junta’s Long History Of Executing Its Enemies
— August 1, 2022

BERTIL LINTNER | THE hangings of National League for Democracy (NLD) lawmaker Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, pro–democracy veteran Kyaw Min Yu, widely known as ‘Ko Jimmy’, Ko Hla Myo Aung and Ko Aung Thura Zaw have caused outrage around the world, and clearly show that it is a folly to believe that any kind of…
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Jishnu Dev Varma | Ullaskar Speech
— April 30, 2022

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Rewrite Freedom Struggle History From Nationalist Approach | Jishnu
— April 30, 2022

AGARTALA | TRIPURA deputy chief minister Jishnu Dev Varma urged the scholars to rewrite the history of India’s freedom struggle from the “nationalist” perspective while addressing a gathering of 132nd birth anniversary of revolutionary Ullaskar Dutta, who hailed from undivided Tripura. The event organised by Ullaskar Dutta Academy, a Kolkata based research group. Dev Varma…
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Bangladesh To Revert To 1972 Secular Constitution
— October 16, 2021

SUBIR BHAUMIK | TAKING the radical Islamist challenge head–on, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government has decided to revert to its 1972 Constitution offered by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman. At a media briefing on Friday, Bangladesh junior information minister Murad Hassan said an amendment will soon be tabled in Parliament and is likely to be…
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Re–Reading Bankimchandra Anew
— July 2, 2021

MANAS DAS | ALTHOUGH Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, the Scott of Bengal, and the key figure in the literary renaissance of Bengal, is primarily known in our country and elsewhere as a pioneering Bengali novelist and the composer of India’s national song “Vande Mataram”, some of his works have often been criticized for their alleged championing of…
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Phuket Sandbox Welcomes 1st Quarantine Free Tourists
— July 1, 2021

LOOKEAST REPORT | THAILAND’s ambitious quarantine–free tourism experiment began on Thursday morning as an Etihad Airways flight from Abu Dhabi carrying fully vaccinated passengers landed on the island of Phuket. After clearing immigration, the visitors were taken straight to their hotels, where they will wait for the results of PCR tests COVID-19. If the results…
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Myanmar | Authorities Open Corruption Cases Against Suu Kyi
— June 11, 2021

REUTERS | MYANMAR authorities have opened new corruption cases against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi accusing her of abusing her authority and accepting bribes, state media reported, allegations her chief lawyer said were “absurd”. The cases are the latest of a series brought against elected leader Suu Kyi, 75, whose overthrow in a Feb….
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India Set For Covid-19 Vaccination Drive
— January 15, 2021

LOOKEAST REPORT | INDIA is all set to kick off its nationwide vaccination drive against Covid-19 on January 16. The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) had earlier this month approved Oxford Covid-19 vaccine Covishield, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, and indigenously developed Covaxin of Bharat Biotech for restricted emergency use in the…
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Myanmar Orders 30 Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses From India
— January 8, 2021

ZAW ZAW HTWE | YANGON MYANMAR has ordered 30 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine from India that are due to arrive by February, according to the President’s Office. The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, is producing the COVID-19 vaccine, called Covishield, that was developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca. …
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