The United Nations Organisation (UNO) has recently recognised Bangladesh’s eligibility as a developing country from a least developed country (LDC). This evaluation by the UN was formally announced by Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister, Bangladesh, on the 99th birth anniversary of Bangabandhu, Sheikh M...
What happened in Maldives?The latest political crisis in Maldives is a result of a deadlock between President Abdulla Yameen and the Supreme Court of Maldives. The Supreme Court of Maldives has unanimously ruled that nine opponents of Yameen’s regime have been unfairly convicted. Those opponents i...
One highlight of the evolution of international relations in recent years has been the shifting of the axis of global politics to Asia and the rise of developing countries and emerging economies, especially India and China, which has profoundly impacted the international structure. When Chinese lead...
Chairman Xi Jinping’s dramatic elevation to the topmost slot of the Chinese Communist Party has certainly ruffled some feathers here in Bengal. The election of Jinping is being pitted as one of the historic events in Chinese political history as the leader is being bracketed with the two of his gr...
The porosity of the Indo-Bangladesh border permeates several outlawed activities like illegal infiltration, human trafficking, smuggling of gold, illegal cattle trade, circulation of counterfeit currency, narcotics trade and robbery. For almost three decades now, India has spent a significant sum of...
Zeenat Shahzadi, a 26 year old reporter of Daily Nai Khabar and Metro News TV channel, went missing on August 19, 2015, when some unidentified men allegedly kidnapped her while she was on her way to office in Lahore. She was rescued recently from the Afghan-Pakistan border on October 19, 2017. Accor...
India signed an agreement with Bangladesh providing $4.5 billion credit line for infrastructure projects. The loan was announced during Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India in April and is perhaps the biggest Line of Credit (LoC) provided by India to any country. After the ...
It was a foreign bank in Afghanistan. While opening a bank account a woman was asked about her mother’s name. She couldn’t remember. In Afghanistan’s staunchly patriarchal society, women are often publicly identified by the names of their male relatives. There are no traces of a mother’s nam...
Nepal is a land-locked central Himalayan country in South Asia located between China and India. The country is divided into seven provinces. It has about 25.2% population living below the poverty line as per the 2011 estimates.Land reforms had started in Nepal in 1951. An official policy issued in 1...
Mao Zedong once said, “When faced with an opponent, one should push till one meets resistance”, and that could perhaps be what the Chinese are doing at the moment. For over four weeks, India and China have been involved in a standoff along part of their 3500 km shared border. The two nations fou...