Post the fall of Hasina govt, under interim leadership of Yunus, Liberation War narratives & revisionism became a key point of discussion amid improvement in Bangladesh-Pakistan ties.
Politics demands an ability to reach beyond established networks and to appeal to constituencies that do not share the same ideological commitments. Jamaat has struggled on this front.
It had initially been planned under the ousted Hasina govt for early last year, but technical complexity of integrating atomic power into grid caused delays.
Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh & Pakistan have all imposed some form of energy rationing as war continues to roil global energy markets for the third week in row.
What Awami League needs now is not an answer to who will succeed Hasina or even a debate on whether Hasina should return to Bangladesh, but a new leadership on the ground.
Recent research posits that ‘Columbo’ arose from a corruption of ‘Clerembault’—a name on one of the headstones in the mausoleum noted by historian Walter Firminger in 1917.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
Within weeks of Tarique Rahman assuming power, a top military official from Dhaka held talks in Delhi with R&AW chief & India’s Director General of Military Intelligence.
Purported CCTV clip of incident, which occurred Saturday evening, shows masked individual leaving a bag in temple premises & fleeing, seconds before explosion. Probe underway, reports say.
The safety of Bangladeshi Hindus, India’s CAA endeavour, and the rising political crackdown on undocumented immigrants. Jabarani Sarkar finds herself entangled in all three narratives.
India must ensure that while the world tightens its belt, India’s schools remain open without fear, its factories remain humming, and its informal workers remain employed.
The countries signed a memorandum for co-development of UNICORN masts in November 2024. India has been second Asian nation to have such an agreement with Tokyo, after Philippines.
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