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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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Kashmir: Why Article 370 and why its abrogation will prove to be costly 0
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- August 22, 2019
Ramisa Rob August 19, 2019 This year, on August 14 and 15, Independence Day of Pakistan and India, celebrations were tainted with the political tensions that followed the Bharatiya Janata Party led Indian Government’s decision on August 5, 2019 to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35a, that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, including
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India: Assam’s NRC data conundrum 0
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- August 19, 2019
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 Bangladesh 0
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- August 11, 2019
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 everyone 0
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- August 4, 2019
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 UN 0
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- July 30, 2019
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 Karim 0
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- July 23, 2019
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 Treaty 0
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- July 23, 2019
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 legacy 0
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- July 19, 2019
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 review 0
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- July 18, 2019
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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