The coastlines of the Mediterranean Sea went blurry with the waves. The trembling water receded. Then perhaps, deciding to leave a memo, the waves dispatched a body, a little one. It was a silent baby in red shirt and blue pants. He lay dead. He had left his native land in haste and had undertaken a...
China has become India’s largest trading partner. Bilateral trade between them has exceeded India’s trade with the US, which was India’s biggest trade partner till recently. However, trading ties have been severely skewed in favour of China with imports outstripping exports by a huge amount.Th...
India and Pakistan have never shared decent trade relations because of political uncertainty. However, intermittently, there have been efforts aimed at improvement. For example, in 1996, India granted the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to Pakistan. But Pakistan did not do the same for India.From ...
It was not an easy task for the people of Bangladesh to go against the Government of Pakistan, which had made Urdu the sole national language in East Pakistan. Those familiar with post-colonial politics in the Indian sub-continent know that the struggle to recognise Bengali as a national language cu...
Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina has swept back to power in the recently held general elections in the country. Hasina’s Awami League led alliance has won 288 on seats out of 298 seats in the Bangladeshi Jatiya Sangsad (parliament). Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main opposition party, ha...
The cold months of November and December are usually associated with festivities, skiing competitions, ice sculptures, and carnival parades in Europe. However, this unusual winter is experiencing a slew of fiery protests in the continent. Demonstrators are on the streets, rallying against controvers...
Kolkata, the City of Joy, lives a larger than life episode during the festive season. Durga Puja is a source of income generation for many people. Setting temporary food street stalls is also a way of earning during Durga puja. BE looked into the economy and operation of these temporary food stalls ...
The Indian state of Sikkim has recently been awarded the prestigious ‘World Future Policy Award 2018’ by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for becoming the world's first totally organic agriculture state. The award recognises this remarkable achievement and the UNFAO believes that t...
The UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1820 in 2008, which condemns the use of sexual violence as a tool of war, and declares that “rape and other forms of sexual violence can constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity or a constitutive act with respect to genocide”. This year’s Nobel ...
United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer in a detailed 182 paged document on March 22 accused China of indulging into unfair trade practices which ranged from transfer of technology by entering into forced joint ventures, promoting undue licensing practices, encouraging heavily su...