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Dhaka eyeing deeper economic cooperation with Beijing ahead of Yunus’s China visit

Bangladesh and China have enjoyed friendly relations since establishing diplomatic ties in 1975. Since then, cooperations between China and Bangladesh have risen exponentially. Bilateral ties between the two countries started solidifying, identifying each other’s interests and priorities. The relationship has…

New coalition agreement in Greenland to be signed on Friday, 28 March 2025, and JD Vance’s Visit

Statement by Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes, Founder and Managing Director of Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI), on the new coalition agreement in Greenland to be signed on Friday, 28 March 2025, and JD Vance’s Visit Formation of New Coalition…

The US Will Struggle To Get Europe To Abide By Putin’s Demand To Stop Arming Ukraine

A compromise is possible whereby the Europeans are pressured by the US into stockpiling their Ukrainian-destined arms in Poland and Romania for swift shipment across the border if hostilities re-erupt sometime after a ceasefire, armistice, or peace treaty is agreed…

The World Humanist Forum announces and invites you to its next Open Assembly

The next open Assembly of the World Humanist Forum will be held virtually on Saturday, April 5. Deliberations will begin at 10:00 a.m. in Argentina/Chile/Brazil, with the start time corresponding to 7:00 a.m. in Mexico/Central America and 9:00 a.m. in…

Explainer: Bashkortostan’s Modern Agricultural Technologies and Approaches Useful for Africa

The importance of introducing new technologies, the need for adopting innovative approaches as key drivers for the development of agriculture, as well as the need to develop an agricultural insurance system, in the context of climate change and global challenges,…

India shies over Yunus-Modi talks

India has not declined a meeting with Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, Chief adviser of Bangladesh Interim Government and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. South Block in New Delhi did not respond to a request for Yunus-Modi state-level bilateral meeting…

Europe: Irrelevance Breeds Defiance

A few weeks ago, I paraphrased Marx’s words from nearly two centuries ago: “A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of irrelevance”. Recent events suggest that the spectre is rapidly becoming a reality. While the European Union and Britain…

Rohingya Refugees Return Dim, Dimmer, and Dimmest

Three significant developments have occurred in a week which once again brought the much-talked-about Rohingya refugee crisis to the global media. First, last week United Nations Secretary General António Guterres visited the Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in south-east…

Greenland: It’s time for the international community to step in

– We in Greenland have done everything we can to make the Americans understand that they are violating us as a people and our sovereignty through their constant pressure. But nothing has got through to the Trump administration; on the contrary,…

RSS Calls for Global Solidarity with Bangladesh’s Hindu Community

Guwahati: The Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha 2025 (ABPS) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Saturday expressed its serious concern on the unabated and planned violence, injustice, and oppression faced by the Hindu and other religious minority communities at the…

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