STEPHEN LEAHY | The world’s rarest great ape, discovered only in 2017, will not survive the building of a $1.6 billion hydroelectric power plant and dam in the middle of its remaining habitat in Sumatra, Indonesia, wildlife experts warn. Only 800 of the newly identified Tapanuli orangutans remain in the wild, all in northern Sumatra’s Batang…
Read moreINAM AHMED / SHAKHAWAT LITON | He was hardly known to outsiders until his father, General Ziaur Rahman who became Bangladesh’s president in the process of several coups and counter–coups, died in another military putsch in May 1981. For the first time, through a Bangladesh Television programme “Jodi Kichhu Money Na Koren”, the countrymen came…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | After India, ties between Pakistan and Bangladesh have also gone sour as Dhaka has refused to accept new Pakistani high commissioner to Bangladesh. Credible diplomatic sources revealed that awaiting the agreement of high commissioner to Bangladesh Saqlain Syedah. The post of the high commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh went vacant after the…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | Bangladesh is likely to be one of the biggest mover in the global gross domestic product rankings in 2030, says a report of HSBC Global Report. The report titled “The World in 2030: Our long term projections for 75 countries” says Bangladesh is becoming the 26th largest economy in the world from…
Read moreBELINDA GOLDSMITH | An Indian campaigner supporting women survivors of violence in northeast India was named as one of two winners of an annual award recognising female human rights workers. Binalakshmi Nepram shared the Reach All Women in WAR (RAW in WAR) Anna Politkovskaya Award with Nobel literature laureate Svetlana Alexievich, an investigative journalist and…
Read moreFRANCESCO SISCI | What’s really happening between the American and the Chinese navies — after two ships almost ran into each other in the South China Sea on September 30 — could determine the future ties of the countries. Are the two navies talking to each other to avoid future incidents ? Are the respective…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | There has been no rest at Manipur University since the Ministry of Human Resource Development appointed its new Vice–Chancellor in October 2016. After inquiry, he was suspended. In the meantime, he had appointed a Pro–Vice Chancellor which led to student protests against him. After three months of agitation, the semester examinations were…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | A crude bomb exploded at the crowded marketplace in Dum Dum on the northern fringes of Kolkata Tuesday morning, killing a seven–year–old boy and injuring nine others and triggering a war of words between the ruling Trinamul Congress and the BJP. Killing a seven–year–old boy and injuring nine others and triggering…
Read moreSAJEEB WAZED JOY | Government opponents claim that democracy in Bangladesh is broken. They call the 2014 general elections invalid and say the upcoming elections will be, too. They allege that the disappearance of some opposition leaders was a government conspiracy. They are wrong. None of these claims are true. BNP chose to boycott…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | Canada’s parliament voted unanimously to effectively strip Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship over the Rohingya crisis. Ottawa had given the long–detained democracy advocate and Nobel laureate the rare honour in 2007. But her international reputation has become tarnished by her refusal to call out the atrocities…
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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
