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Japan to tie landlocked Northeast India with Bangladesh

Hopes for the Red Sun finally glimmer lights over landlocked northeast India and plans to connect with landlocked states with Bangladesh, which has been deemed as geostrategic significance to Japan. Japan after the brutal Second World War has developed several…

China’s dam on Brahmaputra to threaten BD, India

China secretly built the world’s biggest dam over the mighty Brahmaputra River which is likely to jeopardise the ecology, environment, and morphology. If the mega project goes through will immensely cause hardship for several million people in downstream India and…

Why is Japan edging closer to Bangladesh and India in the region?

Bangladesh, Japan, and India will hold a meeting in Tripura on 11-12 April to put in place connectivity initiatives to harness the commercial potential of the region. By Fumiko Yamada Asian Confluence, a think tank based out of North East India, in…

China has to go beyond tokenism to ensure return of Rohingya to Myanmar

The lights are dim at the end of the tunnel in case of repatriation of Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. The country hosts nearly 1.2 million Muslim Rohingya people who…

Myanmar-Bangladesh railway connection provides benefits for the region.

To facilitate the travel of tourists from home and abroad to Cox’s Bazar, a rail communication network is supposed to develop along with air and road. The railway line from Dhaka to Chittagong is 320 kilometers long and 102 kilometers…

Myanmar’s planned Rohingya repatriation process must be smoothly implemented, continual, sustainable

Despite some ongoing crises worldwide, a piece of good news for the world is that Myanmar expresses its interest in taking back/repatriating some Rohingyas (estimated 700 Rohingya primarily) in Rakhine. Although the estimated number of refugees in Rohingya repatriation in…

Can Donald Lu’s Bangladesh visit restore his credibility in South Asia?

US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Donald Lu has recently been mentioned frequently in the media while talking about US relations with South Asian nations. This time his visit to Dhaka has generated a buzz in…

Metrorail: Another success story of Bangladesh

Metrorail, one of the mega projects of the government, is no longer a dream but a visible reality. Its trial run has started last year. The train started from Diabari in the capital and returned to the depot through Pallavi.…

How Bangladesh is trying to ensure food security for all?

Food security is stated as one of the citizens’ fundamental rights in the Bangladeshi Constitution. Food security means that everyone has access to enough wholesome food at all times to sustain their health. The availability of food, whether through domestic…

US Congress To Recognise Bangladesh Genocide In 1971

Recently United States Congressman Steve Chabot along with co-sponsor Congressman Ro Khanna and Congresswoman Katie Porter introduced a bipartisan resolution 1430 “Recognising the Bangladesh Genocide of 1971” in Capitol Hill, Washington DC. By aleem Samad The resolution demands that the…

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