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A message too loud to ignore

Bangladesh’s 13th national parliamentary election has delivered a verdict that is politically significant not merely for Dhaka, but for the entire South Asian region.

North-East looks forward to stable, friendly Bangladesh under BNP rule

As the detailed preparations for the much-awaited general election in Bangladesh fructified without any untoward ado last Thursday, and the results the next day showed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP, led by Tarique Rahman) had established a landslide victory, the people of North-East India now expect a stable, progressive and friendly regime in Dhaka.

Ties reset

The recent meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus at the BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok marks a crucial moment in the evolving relationship between the two South Asian nations.

Poison in the Air

The world was already in the VUCA phase with a lot of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. The war in Ukraine that started in the year 2022 added to these upheavals and impacted worldwide trade especially bringing volatile shifts in the food commodity market.

Hydropower Diplomacy

Nepal’s expanding energy exports to India signal a pivotal shift in South Asian regional cooperation, particularly in the energy sector.

Kamala a truth stranger than fiction

The United States had its first Black president and its first female president over a halfcentury ago. They were fictional, they were on screen, their names were Douglass Dilman and Leslie McCloud, and in the decades that followed there have been many others.