LOOKEAST REPORT British lawyer, Lord Carlile, will advise the defence panel of Khaleda Zia, in an attempt to beef up the BNP chairperson’s legal defence. He is a renowned lawyer in London and a member of the British Queen’s Council and House of Lords. “Hiring a foreign lawyer does not mean Bangladeshi lawyers are incapable,” BNP…
Read moreANJALI NAIR Just as the US seems to have given up, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has finally found a way to install a prototype rail gun in one of its warships. Photographs taken at the Wuchang Shipyard show a large gun, mounted on the Haiyang Shan, a type 072 tank landing craft, that does…
Read moreSYED BASHIR Myanmar’s president Htin Kyaw has resigned citing poor health, two days after State Counsellor and defacto leader Aung San Suu Kyi pulled out of an event in Australia after feeling sick. No official explanation has so far been provided for Htin Kyaw’s resignation, but there have been growing concerns in recent months about…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT The BIMSTEC must redouble its efforts to be more effective and result-oriented in integrating the economies of its seven member countries for the welfare of their people, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali said. “Time has come for us to seriously re-look at how we want BIMSTEC to be more effective…
Read moreLOOKEASE REPORT Cooperation between India and Myanmar in the railways sector reaches an important landmark. Myanmar is seen as a crucial partner in the fight to end insurgency in India’s north-east, as a gateway to South-East Asia and a key component of Modi’s new vision for South and South-East Asian regional cooperation. It is also…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during the informal WTO meeting in March 2018 asked India not to worry about Dhaka’s growing ties with China, asserting that the cooperation with Beijing was meant only for the country’s development. However, it seems likely that India has enough reasons to worry, and Bangladesh too for that…
Read moreSAMAYETA KANJILAL The winds of peace seems to be blowing after the Doklam stand–off and China seems to be using its Buddhist diplomacy to make a break. Probably for the first time the Chinese embassy in Kolkata has pitched for a two days conference on Chinese Buddhist travellers like Huen Tsang. They are also willing to…
Read moreJASMEET WARAICH IT may seem trivial to compare a trade war to a real one, but trade war comes with potentially serious and unpredictable results as well — especially when Trump is involved. And even beyond that, it could preview how Trump might conduct himself in actual military conflict, in which his tendency to retaliate…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT The NSCN(I-M) is piling huge pressure on the Indian government to secure release of a member who was arrested by customs officials in Delhi airport four days ago with a five pistol-conversion carbine units. They have pushed Chief Minister Neipheu Rio to take up the matter with the Union Home Ministry without any delay. It…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT The BJP has made a mistake allying with IPFT in Tripura and the results are starting to show pretty too soon. After demolishing the 25-year-old Left regime, the saffron party now has another battle to win, this time with its partner. The BJP and its alliance partner IPFT(NC) in Tripura, a separatist tribal…
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