Few hours after Narendra Modi took oath as the Prime Minister of India for his second term, US President Donald Trump confirmed that his administration will withdraw the designation of Generalised System of Preference (GSP) from India. GSP is the largest and oldest US trade preference programme allo...
North Korea’s recent missile tests could again escalate tensions with the US. The two missile tests within a week can be perceived as a threat by the US administration. Things might worsen if the US fails to reach an agreement on removing economic sanctions imposed on North Korea. The US had propo...
Bilateral relations between Bangladesh and India have become a model of positive bilateral relations between neighbouring countries. The World Bank has projected that both countries will be among the fastest growing five countries in the world. A similar assessment has also been made by the Asian De...
The Indian government has recently gone on record stating that India is sufficiently prepared to deal with the impact of the US decision to end waivers that allowed India to buy Iranian oil without facing sanctions. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas said in a press release, “The Government...
On the resurrection day of Lord Jesus, the blood of his children was spilt. The Sri Lankan cities of Colombo, Negombo, and Batticaloa witnessed one of the bloodiest terror attacks on Easter day of 2019 which left a death toll of more than 320 and injured over 500. The first wave of the attacks was t...
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...
