Political lessons of the prime minister's India visit
September 9 ,2022
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By: Kamal Ahmed
The details published about the official talks held during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's India visit once again reflect a picture of t...
Sheikh Hasina’s Teesta water calls turn desperate. But Mod...
September 8 ,2022
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By: Praveen Swami
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Famed across the land for their beauty, but fearing their...
How Sheikh Hasina’s breaking the Chinese wall, creating ne...
September 7 ,2022
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By: Jyoti Malhotra
File image of Indian PM Narendra Modi and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina | Photo: PIB
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ha...
Understanding the proposed Bangladesh-India comprehensive...
September 4 ,2022
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By: Doreen Chowdhury
Bangladesh and India enjoy cooperation and warm relations in almost every area. Throughout history, both countries have also cultured a...
Ministers are the boss, bureaucrats real boss
August 29 ,2022
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By: Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee
Who is calling all the shots in government affairs at the moment, the ministers or the bureaucrats? The answer is pretty obvious.
A hu...
15 August: The actual truth must be known
August 25 ,2022
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By: Mohiuddin Ahmad
Body of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman lying on the stair at Dhanmondi 32Prothom Alo illustration
August is our month of mourni...
Rapists freed: Is this how justice ends for Indian Muslims...
August 24 ,2022
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By: Apoorvanand
Bilkis Bano, her daughter Aksha, and husband Yakub Rasool in New Delhi in 2017 [File: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters]
It was Independen...
Momen has said the ‘right thing’
August 23 ,2022
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By: Asif Nazrul
“Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has requested the US to bring BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) to power. He also requested the US...
One year after the Taliban takeover: Regional risks and re...
August 20 ,2022
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By: Raheb Radfar
On August 15, 2021—exactly one year ago —the Taliban captured Kabul and retook power in Afghanistan two decades after the U...
Time to reform: Lack of transparency may worsen economic s...
August 12 ,2022
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By: Pratim Ranjan Bose
No government is perfect and every economy has its share of skeletons in the cupboard. However, for a democratic nation, Bangladesh mad...
For Sri Lanka, nuclear energy may be the best bet in the l...
August 12 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: In his recent address to the Advocata Institute in Colombo, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said: “I think we...
Govt invites inflation
August 9 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Global economic situation and the situation in BangladeshProthom Alo infographic
Whe...
Bangladesh’s economic crisis: How did we get here?
August 6 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s willingness to support Bangladesh’s request for a 4.5 billion dollar bail...
Pakistan: The default response
August 5 ,2022
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By: Aqdas Afzal
Before the recent by-election in Punjab, the present government seemed to be coasting towards completing its constitutionally mand...
Foreign debt: Loan repayment to double within 3 years
August 2 ,2022
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By: Jahangir Shah
Bangladesh will have to pay huge amount of loan with capital and interest in next 10-15 years and the volume of loan repayment will dou...
India’s delayed cyber security policy
August 1 ,2022
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By: Subimal Bhattacharjee
Prime Minister at the Opening Ceremony of Global Conference on CyberSpace 2017 in New Delhi
Over two years ago, Prime Minister...
How Does the Sanction Waiver to India Aid US' Strategic In...
July 30 ,2022
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By: Rahul Bedi
US President Joe Biden listens as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a 'Quad nations' meeting at the Leaders' Summit...
Ambassadors of Hindutva: How saffron has seeped into India...
July 28 ,2022
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By: P. Raman
File photo of minister for external affairs S. Jaishankar, national security adviser Ajit Doval and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Ima...
Amid China-US rivalry, Sri Lanka crisis offers lesson for...
July 25 ,2022
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By: Akhil Ramesh
Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa (centre) with his younger brother, the recently ousted president Gotabaya Rajapa...
Will Droupadi Murmu remain a BJP electoral ploy or help un...
July 24 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
President-elect Droupadi Murmu celebrates with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in New Delhi, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Photo: PTI
Ne...
The Nupur Sharma episode: India’s public diplomacy and GCC...
July 22 ,2022
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By: Muhsin Puthan Purayil
Last month, India faced a diplomatic quagmire when Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal, spokespersons of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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