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Would love see Bangladeshi immigrants create next unicorn in India: Microsoft CEO Nadella 0
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- January 14, 2020
The Daily Star | January 14, 2020 Would love see Bangladeshi immigrants create next unicorn in India: Microsoft CEO Nadella Satya Nadella. Microsoft’s Indian-origin CEO Satya Nadella has joined the chorus against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in India, saying what is happening is “just bad” and he would love to see a Bangladeshi
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Maverick Mamata and a disunited opposition camp 0
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- January 12, 2020
By Pallab Bhattacharya | January 12, 2020 Maverick Mamata and a disunited opposition camp By deciding to boycott a meeting of about a dozen opposition parties in New Delhi, India on January 13—when they will try to firm up a strategy to take forward the movement against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the
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NRC, CAA and Bangladesh 0
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- January 4, 2020
The Daily Star January 03, 2020 Fallacy of unsuspecting trust by C R Abrar Finally the tides of uncertainty and insecurity generated by the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in India have begun to strike the shores of Bangladesh. On December 30 under instruction of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory
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India stares at the New Year with high politics over CAA/NRC 0
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- December 31, 2019
by Pallab Bhattacharya 30 December 2019 It has been more than a fortnight that the pan-India protests against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are going on. The violence and police firing that have often accompanied the agitation snuffed out more than 20 lives. On December 19, the country witnessed the most extensive protests with
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Myanmar’s legacy of rape as a terror tactic 0
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- December 7, 2019
The Daily Star December 04, 2019 The Myanmar military has been using rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war to exterminate the Rohingya community—or at least a part of it. PHOTO: THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION Tasneem Tayeb While it is a well-docu-mented fact that more than 700,000 Rohingya had to flee Myanmar’s Rakhine state since
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Rohingya Genocide Trial: ICJ on course to hold hearings 0
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- December 6, 2019
The Daily Star December 07, 2019 Porimol Palma 6 December 2019 The Gambia is set to launch a legal battle against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice as it starts hearing the case on Rohigya genocide on Tuesday. Gambia Attorney General and Justice Minister Abubacarr Marie Tambadou and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu
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Lt Jamshed Manekshaw: An unsung hero of World War II 0
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- November 29, 2019
Prakash Bhandari November 25, 2019 Lt Jamshed Manekshaw (standing left on the second row) on the Burma Front during WWII. The world knows late Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw as the man who, as the chief of the Indian army in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War following the Bangladesh Liberation War, made great contributions to the creation
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Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi; The fallen angel dances with the devil 0
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- November 26, 2019
Securing justice for the Rohingya genocide C R Abrar 26 November 2019 The Daily Star Late last week, Burma announced that its de facto head, Aung San Suu Kyi, will appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend the country against allegations of genocide. Earlier in the month, in an application filed before
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The mounting pressure on Myanmar and its sum total effect 0
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- November 22, 2019
The Daily Star November 22, 2019 Abdullah Shibli Last week, for the first time I heard an eminent Burmese citizen and a former advisor to the military government admit that massacre and atrocities were committed against the Rohingyas. He also acknowledged that Rohingya villages were burned in Rakhine. Thant Myint-U, a historian, former diplomat, and
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NRC: The way ahead for India and Bangladesh 0
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- October 7, 2019
The Daily Star October 03, 2019 Trinamool Congress supporters protest against the National Register of Citizens in Siliguri on August 4, 2018. PHOTO: AFP Pallab Bhattacharya As Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi meet in New Delhi on October 5 for their second inter-face in about a week, the issue of National Register of
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India: Inclusivity under threat 0
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- October 4, 2019
The Daily Star October 04, 2019 Project Syndicate catches up with Shashi Tharoor, a former UN under-secretary-general, Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, and Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development. Excerpts from the interview: Shashi Tharoor. Photo: Reuters Shashi Tharoor Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government revoked the special status of
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Bangladeshi beaten dead by ‘BSF’0
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- September 20, 2019
September 20, 2019 A Bangladesh national was beaten to death allegedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Kathaldangi border in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon today. The deceased was identified as Md Kamal, 32, son of Abdul Hakim and a resident of Geruadangi village in the upazila, our Thakurgaon correspondent reports. Quoting locals Md Amiruzzaman,
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India’s Democratic Dictatorship 0
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- September 15, 2019
September 16, 2019 The Daily Star Shashi Tharoor Amid much fanfare, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has completed a hundred days of its second term. Despite his government’s poor record, Modi remains immensely popular personally. This does not bode well for Indian democracy. The Modi government’s supporters tout a slew of new repressive legislation—including
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Rohingyas: Repatriation bids: Designed to fail, all along 0
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- August 24, 2019
The Daily Star August 25, 2019 Porimol Palma Myanmar, which is accused of genocide against the Rohingya population, has done little to create conditions that encourage the refugees to return from Bangladesh and to hold the perpetrators of the alleged genocide accountable, analysts say. Dr Mizanur Rahman, a law professor at Dhaka University, said that
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