Jubeda Chowdhury  Dhaka based teacher, freelance columnist, researcher. German-based news media Deutsche Welle aired a documentary about Bangladesh’s elite force Rapid Action Battalion RAB. Deutsche Welle published the investigative documentary in association with Netra News. A summary of the same was also circulated in a press release. It is said that there is a renewed […]

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Courtesy https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/ ‘I’m hopeful that this will have a positive impact on other cases in Diego Garcia.’ Two Sri Lankan asylum seekers who were transferred to Rwanda earlier this month after attempting suicide on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia were approved by UK authorities on Thursday to receive asylum in a third country. Documents notifying […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror China and Brazil have reportedly reached a deal to trade in their own currencies, ditching the US dollar as an intermediary, as part of the rising global use of the Chinese renminbi. The deal will enable China and Brazil to conduct their massive trade and financial transactions directly, exchanging renminbi for […]

Erina Haque from Sweden Last Wednesday altogether 9 districts and 211 upazilas across Bangladesh have been declared as homeless and landless free. The number of rehabilitated people is 3,856,505. The beneficiary includes widows, deserted women, bedes, low-caste people, hijras and climate refugees. This is a significant achievement in ensuring fundamental human rights. Bangladesh is lauded for […]

Sufian Siddique Independent researcher and freelance columnist, Dhaka On March 20, the  State Department released a global report titled “2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices”.  The report is based on the human rights situation in 198 countries and territories.  The section on Bangladesh in the report highlights the issues of extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture, […]

Priyantha Hettige. You are living in particularly significant times. The rise of Russia and its Federation of States is confronting the world’s most powerful and brutal-minded country in the world – the United States. The USA can be said to be poorly led by Joe Biden. It is a failing world power, old corrupt and […]

Dr. Abantika Kumari Assistant Professor at History Department of Allahabad College, Uttar Pradesh, India The United States’ “2022 Nation Reports on Human Rights Practices” were published on March 20, 2023 and have rekindled old wounds caused by the US’s continued attempts to serve as the world’s policeman. The solemn report is essentially a list of […]

Jubeda Chowdhury  Dhaka based freelance columnist, researcher The USA recently released a report on the human rights situation of 198 countries in 2022. In 2022, extrajudicial killings, disappearances, suppression of expression and media, use of force in gatherings, obstruction of national and international human rights institutions, etc. continued as usual in Bangladesh. However, compared to […]

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 […]