Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina inaugurated a 131.5-kilometre-long India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL) from Siliguri in North Bengal to Parbatipur in Banglaesh’s Dinajpur province Saturday (18 March). The pipeline, built with Rs 377 crore drawn from a line of credit offered by India […]

Pathik Hasan Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the inauguration of “India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline” is a milestone achievement in mutual cooperation for the development of the two friendly neighbours. Sheikh Hasina hoped that Bangladesh and India would jointly celebrate many such successes in the days to come. The pipeline will play a significant role […]

Dr. Shakuntala Bhabani The subregion has immense potential for economic growth and significant untapped economic potential for intra-regional trade. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN)  subregional initiative, which was endorsed way back in 1997 to strengthen the region’s pursuit of trade and economic integration, still has a long way to go. A projection based on […]

Fumiko Yamada China was the mediator of the talks held in Beijing. After four days of talks, two regional rivals in the Middle East, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have agreed to restore diplomatic ties. This significant diplomatic shift is undoubtedly an important event for all countries, especially for the Middle East. Because in the current […]

Fumiko Yamada February 24 marked one year of the Ukraine-Russia war. A year ago, Putin’s 200,000 troops invaded Ukraine with arrogance and arrogance. The roar of the Russian tank fleet, some 35 miles long, died down within a few days. We have seen the devastation of tank fleets and the pursuit of Russian troops in […]

Ishtiaq Fardin  journalist, columnist, and author. Recently, 40 global figures expressed their “deep concerns for the well-being” of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus in an open letter to prime minister Sheikh Hasina, which appeared as a full-page ad in the Washington Post on Tuesday, 7 March 2023. Citing the achievements of Yunus and Grameen […]

Dr Arpita Hazarika  Gauhati University, Assam, India India will begin exporting diesel to neighbouring Bangladesh through a pipeline this month after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina inaugurate the cross-border oil pipeline on 18 March. Good news is India will send us diesel, the (oil) pipeline has been completed. The […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka Recently, 40 global figures wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh expressing their concern over Professor Yunus’ well-being. The letter was published in the Washington Post as an advertisement. A wide range of global personas signed the letter, including former UN General Secretary Ban-Ki […]

Courtesy Africa News French-Cameroonian commission to turn light on colonial era | Africanews A joint French-Cameroonian commission started Friday (Mar. 3rd) work on delving into France’s role in the nation’s colonial past and post-independence years. It is jointly headed by a Cameroonian artist Blick Bassy and a French historian Karine Ramondy. The composition of the team tasked […]

 Lanka Lead News පසුගිය වසර පුරාම රුසියාව සහ යුක්රේනය අතර ගැටුම එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් නිර්වචනය කළේ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය සහ ඒකාධිපතිවාදය අතර යුද්ධයක්” ලෙස ය. එම මතය තහවුරු කිරීම සදහා එක්සත් ජනපදය හා බටහිර සමාජය දිගින් දිගටම උත්සාහ දැරීය. කෙසේ වෙතත් රුසියාව යුක්‍රේනය සමඟ ගැටුමකට ක්‍රමක්‍රමයෙන් තල්ලු කරනු ලැබුවේද එක්සත් ජනපදය ප්‍රමුඛ නේටෝ සංවිධානය බව වර්තමානයේ ලොවට […]

Jubeda Chowdhury  columnist, researcher ‘Alone we can do very little; Together we can do so much’. These words of the American writer Helen Keller are remarkably appropriate in the context of electricity for South Asian countries. Despite the huge potential, very little cooperation between countries in the region has been realized on electricity. Bangladesh, Bhutan, […]

Pathik Hasan Dhaka, Bangladesh The economy of Bangladesh is gradually improving. As a result of the increase in the country’s GDP, the per capita income has increased and the standard of living is improving as compared to before. Although the economic momentum has been somewhat hampered in the past few years due to the corona […]

Jubeda Chowdhury is a columnist, researcher According to Bangladesh Export Development Bureau, significant agricultural exports are vegetables, tea, flowers, fruits, various spices, tobacco, dry food etc. However, Bangladesh has made significant progress in the export of dry food. These dry foods include various products like biscuits, chanachurs, cakes, potato crackers and nuts. Of the $100 […]

Sufian Siddique A bit of news published in the leading British daily ‘The Guardian’ on February 20, 2023 has come to my notice just as idle curiosity. They ran the news under the headline– ‘Bangladesh shuts down main opposition newspaper’ with the subheading– ‘Campaigners fear media crackdown under PM Sheikh Hasina after suspension order upheld’. […]

Aziz Patwary London, England On February 19th, Bangladesh shut down a daily newspaper, Dainik Dinkal, for violating the country’s press and publication law. The decision has created a national debate in Bangladesh. Many portray this shutdown by legal intervention as an attack on the country’s media freedom. The issue has also attracted international media such […]

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China February 2023 https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/202302/t20230220_11027664.html Contents Introduction I. Political Hegemony—Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony—Wanton Use of Force  III. Economic Hegemony—Looting and Exploitation IV. Technological Hegemony—Monopoly and Suppression V. Cultural Hegemony—Spreading False Narratives Conclusion Introduction Since becoming the world’s most powerful country after the two world wars […]

Sufian Asif Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka. Today, challenges like climate change, pandemics, energy reliance, economic crisis, and many more are concerning us. No nation can overcome these obstacles without the assistance and collaboration of other nations. Most importantly, many of these problems have international repercussions. South Asia is facing much more difficulty when […]

Courtesy Unz Review Introduction I. Political Hegemony—Throwing Its Weight Around II. Military Hegemony—Wanton Use of Force III. Economic Hegemony—Looting and Exploitation IV. Technological Hegemony—Monopoly and Suppression V. Cultural Hegemony—Spreading False Narratives Conclusion Introduction Since becoming the world’s most powerful country after the two world wars and the Cold War, the United States has acted more […]

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BY JU-HYUN PARK Courtesy The Real News Network After weeks of political theater, the Pentagon is walking back its claims that China invaded US airspace with a spy balloon.” But the damage from the media frenzy is already done, and the worst is likely yet to come. At times, the ways people perceive an object betrays […]

A.J. SMUSKIEWICZ  Courtesy The Unz Review I recall that when I was attending St. Albert the Great elementary school in Burbank, Illinois, during the mid-to-late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the history teachers used to tell us that the United States had never lost a war. Keep in mind that this was while the […]

Chris Hedges Fan Club John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation. Mearsheimer was born in December […]

TED RALL  Courtesy The Unz Review Though their number is steadily dropping, especially among Republicans, most Americans support Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. I have a question for you pro-Ukraine peeps: Imagine you were Russian President Vladimir Putin just shy of a year ago. What would you have done in his place? Putin faced an impossible […]

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts  Courtesy Global Research After the Russiagate Hoax, the Covid hoax, and the Insurrection hoax, We now Have the Chinese Spy Balloon Hoax According to Washington and the media, China sent a balloon that the Pentagon said could” be loaded with explosives to spy on America.  A top general said that similar balloons have entered […]

Courtesy Teheran Times At times of natural disasters, countries actually set aside differences with the foes and extend a helping humanitarian hand.  But the United States and its Western allies have refused to assist the Syrian government even as it faces one of the worst natural disasters in more than a century. Syria has already […]

acTVism Munich In this episode of The Source, we talk with Professor Emeritus of Economics (University of Massachusetts) and founder of Democracy at Work, Richard Wolff, about the economic impact of the Ukraine war. We assess the impact of Western sanctions on Russia as well as how the war has affected the West economically. Interview […]

Courtesy Star (Kenya) Sri Lankan investors have employed over 20, 000 Kenyans at Export Processing Zone in Athi River Kananathan said Sri Lanka, a country in South Asia, was committed to supporting the Kenyan government in its quest of creating jobs for citizens in a bid of solving the challenge of unemployment in the country. […]

Courtesy Teheran Times This past week for an evening in North Carolina I had the pleasure of speaking briefly with Medea Benjamin and hearing her opine about Ukraine to an audience at a local church. A petite, elegant, straight talking Jewish lady, now 70, who for decades has been at the forefront of trying to […]

Harunur Rasid In the cross-border commerce with Bangladesh, Myanmar has been exporting more than it has been importing, with 8,620.7 tonnes of exports to Bangladesh valued at US$10.733 million between April and October of the fiscal year 2022–2023. The two border checkpoints between Myanmar and Bangladesh, Sittway and Maungtaw, saw a 65 percent increase in […]

Courtesy Teheran Times The war was begun in February 2014 with a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin and continues until now. Putin told the Russian people that he was conducting a special military operation” to denazify” Ukraine and prevent NATO from expanding to Russia’s borders. Many in the West see the war, which many […]