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  • India: Assam’s NRC data conundrum0

    August 19, 2019 Pallab Bhattacharya After the Indian Supreme Court recently rejected the Indian central and Assamese governments’ plea for sample re-verification of names included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC), politics has begun playing out afresh over the issue. On August 1, the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Assam released, in the legislative

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  • Transboundary cooperation key to enforcing rivers’ legal rights in Bangladesh0

     by Gauri Noolkar-Oak August 11, 2019 In June 2019, the Bangladesh High Court granted its rivers the status and rights of a living entity, becoming the fourth country after New Zealand, India and Colombia to do so, and the first to extend the declaration to every river within its territory. The decision was welcomed by

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  • Making migration work for everyone0

    The Daily STar August 05, 2019 Md Shahidul Haque In a globalised world, migration is a fact of life that should be governed accordingly. To that end, it is time to establish what I call “Migration Order 3.0,” a new framework that would make migration work for everyone.    Until World War II, transnational human mobility was subject

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  • Rohingya flow into Bangladesh continues, albeit low: Anisul to UN0

    The Daily Star July 30, 2019 Reiterating that Bangladesh sheltering 1.1 million Rohingyas for the sake of humanity, Law Minister Anisul Huq today told the United Nation that the flow of Rohingyas into Bangladesh still continues, albeit low. “The most disconcerting fact is that the flow of Rohingyas, albeit low, still continues,” he said while

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  • History writing in South Asia and Prof Abdul Karim0

    July 24, 2019 by Amit Dey In 1990, when I was striving to enter the world of doctoral research, my father, who was an eminent historian, placed three books on my table with the assurance that if I thoroughly read them, I would be on my way to select a research topic for myself. The book that

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  • India/Bangladesh: Signing a meaningful Teesta Treaty0

    The Daily Star July 24, 2019 by Gauri Noolkar-Oak The first step towards effective water diplomacy in India’s eastern neighbourhood Last month, shortly after the new Modi government came to power, the External Affairs Minister of India, Dr S Jaishankar, met his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momin on the sidelines of the CICA (Conference of

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  • Bangladesh – ERSHAD: A mixed legacy0

    The Daily Star July 19, 2019 by Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd) There are certainly many better persons than I who can assess former President HM Ershad more insightfully and, perhaps, more eloquently. As a writer one cannot escape the inevitable influence of the personal association with the man he is writing

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  • Alleged Indian spy’s Death sentence in Pakistan: Rivals both claim victory as ICJ orders review0

    The Daily Star  July 18, 2019  Cod Satrusayang  The International Court of Justice, the top United Nations Court, on Wednesday ruled that Pakistan had violated international law by denying consular access to Indian Navy Officer Kulbhushan Jadhav. The ICJ also ordered that Pakistan review the death penalty it handed down to Jadhav for spying. Jadhav

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  • Miscarriage on the rise: Effects of climate change in coastal Bangladesh0

    by Dr Maruf Hasan 6 July 2019 Most people felt the temperature this summer was higher than previous years, and that it has become intolerable. On the other hand, this perceived rise in temperature has brought satisfaction to the salt producing farmers, who believe the salinity of water will help them produce more in the

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  • India: The contagion effect of NRC in Nagaland0

    by Pallab Bhattacharya 6 July 2019 When the exercise to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam began two years ago, it was expected to have a contagion effect in the rest of northeast India where identity politics has always been pronounced. The first sign of that has come in the public domain

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  • India: ‘Cut money’ bleeds Trinamoool, boosts rivals in West Bengal0

    June 27, 2019 Pallab Bhattacharya A youth from West Bengal’s Baharampur district cleared the West Bengal civil services examination more than two years ago but is yet to get his appointment letter. When he went to enquire about the delay in getting the letter, he was advised by an official of the West Bengal Public

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  • Bangladesh: Monopolising loan defaults0

    The Daily Star June 24, 2019 The shocking truth about the banking sector The finance minister’s revelation in parliament that half of all the defaulted bank loans in Bangladesh was held by 0.17 percent of borrowers, is simply astonishing. Total bad loans now stand at a whopping Tk 1 lakh crore and the number of

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  • ASEAN’s clean chit to Myanmar0

    June 10, 2019 A fig leaf to hide the truth A leaked report prepared by the regional body’s Emergency Response and Assessment Team (ASEAN-ERAT) on the Rohingya issue exposes a preposterous attempt to hide the facts about the brutality committed by the Myanmar army in Rakhine. In certain instances, the report echoes the position of

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  • India: Surfeit of slogans and sub-nationalism in Bengal0

    The Daily Star June 08, 2019 Trinamool Congress has decided to undertake a door-to-door campaign with the message how Bengal and Bangla culture are different from that BJP is trying to project. Pallab Bhattacharya POST-PARLIAMENTARY elections, a battle over sub-nationalism along ideological lines is on in West Bengal between Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. That

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