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Corruption and development: Bangladesh bridge collapse is a familiar story0
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- October 22, 2018
In Bangladesh, it is easy to find many such stories of superficial development. Development cannot be sustained in the long term because it takes place using substandard material, mainly due to corruption and lack of good governance, writes Minhazur Rahman Rezvi for South Asia Monitor By Minhazur Rahman Rezvi Oct 22, 2018 Development means positive
Arms sales to Saudi Arabia give Trump all the leverage he needs in Khashoggi affair0
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- October 22, 2018
Arms sales to Saudi Arabia give Trump all the leverage he needs in Khashoggi affair American-made F-15 warplanes fly over Riyadh. AP Photo/Hassan Ammar Terrence Guay, Pennsylvania State University Among Donald Trump’s many unusual characteristics as president is his frankness. Last week, after the disappearance and apparent torture and murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal
Why the new H-20 subsonic stealth bomber could be a game changer for China0
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- October 22, 2018
Sunday, 21 October, 2018 State media says aircraft is making ‘great progress’ and military analysts expect it will make maiden flight soon Analysts say it’s being developed to break America’s military advantage in the western Pacific China’s subsonic stealth bomber the H-20 is making “great progress”, according to state broadcaster CCTV, and military analysts
India, Bangladesh and three dying rivers0
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- October 22, 2018
Dam building and pollution have turned these transboundary rivers into dirty sludge, unable to sustain life Fisherman Gurudayal Haldar says rampant pollution in the Atreyee River has cause a drastic fall in catch (All photos by Gurvinder Singh) Gurvinder Singh, October 19, 2018 Gurudayal Haldar, 62, has been a fisherman for the past five decades
Arms and influence in the Khashoggi affair0
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- October 20, 2018
President Donald Trump shows a chart highlighting arms sales to Saudi Arabia. AP Photo/Evan Vucci Russell E. Lucas, Michigan State University President Donald Trump’s reaction to the disappearance and death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul reveals important details about the declining influence of U.S. in the Middle East. As a scholar who follows
Trump strikes a blow in US-China struggle with Build Act to contain Xi’s Belt and Road0
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- October 20, 2018
Photo: AFP The just-passed US Build Act will create a new agency to lend to developing countries, particularly in Asia and Africa The legislation elevates the US into a potent player in global development financing, five years after Xi Jinping launched his… By Bhavan Jaipragas 20 Oct 2018 Democrats and Republicans in the United States
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Sri Lanka: A RAW deal, yet again!0
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- October 18, 2018
N Sathiya Moorthy 18 October 2018 Whether Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans can live without the northern neighbour India, they just cannot live without naming India’s external intelligence agency, ‘Research and Analysis Wing’, R&AW, popularly known as RAW, for most if not all their woes. This has been proved one more time this week with news
WTO AGREEMENTS ON AGRICULTURE AND CHALLENGES FOR FOOD SECURITY IN INDIA0
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- October 16, 2018
by Aijaz Ahmad Turrey 16 October 2018 World Trade Organization (WTO): World Trade Organization (WTO) is an organization for opening trade relations among countries. WTO is a medium as well as a place for member governments to settle trade disputes and negotiate trade agreements. WTO came into existence as a result of negotiations operating under
Turkey plays Khashoggi crisis to its geopolitical advantage0
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- October 16, 2018
By James M. Dorsey 16 October 2018 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr. With Turkish investigators asserting that they have found further evidence that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed when he visited the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago, Turkey appears to be leveraging
Military Modernization: Transforming Strategic Outlay of India0
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- October 15, 2018
Image credit: Indiatimes.com India has been engaged in an ongoing comprehensive process of military modernization. The primary purpose behind this military modernization has been to develop effective military capability in order to protect and promote Indian national interest abroad and at home while project military power in South Asia and Indian Ocean region for political
‘Forever war’ in Afghanistan fading from Americans’ memory0
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- October 15, 2018
Michael Kugelman October 10, 2018 Sunday marked the 17th anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan. The conflict has dragged on for so long that, very soon, America’s youngest soldiers could be fighting in a war that began before they were born. Aside from a series of news articles, this 17-year milestone didn’t
Srilanka: Rajapaksas all the way 0
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- October 15, 2018
Sathiya Moorthy 16 October 2018 There used to be times in the history of a Nation and a people that historians describe a given condition of theirs as being in the ‘crossroads.’ It is often related to cultural and civilisation-related aspects on the one hand, and economic policy and reforms on the other. Occasionally, situations appear
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Book Review: A Broken Dream: Rule of Law, Human Rights and Democracy by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha
Updated 20 September, 2018 0600 Justice Sinha was born in Moulavibazar district in the northeast Bangladesh where he grew up in a family of six siblings, five brothers and one sister. His father was a dedicated teacher and a scholar of the Hindu religion. During Bangladesh liberation war in 1971, he experienced the same
Shadow of India, Hasina govt’s corruption, repression of BNP looms over Bangladesh polls
by Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty | Sep 07,2018 BANGLADESH will go into election mode in the next few months. Democratic transfer of power in Bangladesh became the norm ever since the overthrow of military dictator General HM Ershad in 1990. The army-backed caretaker government, during 2007–2008, was an exception in Bangladesh’s democratic governance. Bangladesh has never