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Saturday, April 27, 2024
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Topic: Bangladesh

IFS officer Pranay Verma appointed India’s new ambassador to Bangladesh

As he had been serving as India's envoy to Vietnam, Sandeep Arya will now fill the post as the next Ambassador of India to Vietnam.

Jihadists in Bangladesh are still going strong. Economic gains aren’t ‘wins’

Mobs burning down Hindu-owned homes and businesses in Narail’s Sahapara is a sign. It shows what happens to polities which fail to confront communalism.

Viral photo of Rath Yatra celebrations in Bangladesh not fake, but it was clicked in 2019

Many on Twitter said the image wasn’t from Bangladesh. In actuality, it was taken by a Bangladeshi photographer at a Rath Yatra in Dhaka’s Dhamrai before the pandemic.

Padma bridge shows Bangladesh’s resolve. Why it carries the weight of Sheikh Hasina’s politics

Bangladesh has been transformed into an economic success story and Hasina is aware that victory at the 2023 polls lies through economic prosperity.

Why Bangladesh is absolutely quiet when it comes to anti-Prophet remarks by BJP leaders

As many as 20 countries and organisations have issued statements, but not Bangladesh. It has clearly understood at whose door the power lies in India.

At least 35 killed, over 450 injured in fire at Bangladesh chemical container depot

A massive explosion took place Saturday night and subsequently fire spread from one container to another due to the presence of chemicals at BM Container Depot in Chittagong.

Don’t use mosques, temples for barriers’ – Why poet Kazi Nazrul Islam needs to be read today

Kazi Nazrul Islam confronted orthodoxy in both Hindu and Muslim societies – through poetry, his magazine and his songs. He is Bangladesh’s national poet.

‘Not all inheritances from Partition are traumatic.’ Some stories are ‘celebrations’ too

Author-historian Aanchal Malhotra's 'In the Language of Remembering' explores the legacy of Partition within Indian families today.

Any restrictions on wheat exports by India will likely hit its neighbours most

According to reports earlier this week the food ministry was considering export restrictions after severe heat damaged the country's wheat crop.

‘No one wants to be the last man to die’ — What happened on final day of 1971 Bangladesh War

In ‘December in Dacca’, KS Nair writes about 15 December 1971, when the end of the war was in sight, but by no means certain.

On Camera

Congress can’t deny Modi’s charge of Muslim quota. Karnataka & 2009 manifesto are proof

The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.

A scrap revolution for recyclists, it’s an opportunity too good to waste

Recycling 'energy-transition metals' - or metals from batteries, electric vehicles and renewable-energy products offers abundant growth potential.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.