Dilip Deodhar, a well-known Nagpur-based RSS researcher, said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) have tried to leave their differences behind, and the fall of the Hasina government in Bangladesh had a huge role to play.
"The Sangh had apprised the BJP leadership of its concerns that a regime change that took place in Bangladesh through street protests could also happen in India. Many of the Opposition leaders had spoken after the Bangladesh results that a similar thing was needed in the country. So, the concerns were not unwarranted. Both the Sangh and the BJP know that there are external forces that do not want India to have its own foreign policy."
Things between the BJP government at the Centre and its p...
Generating sufficient productive jobs in Bangladesh is arguably the most important developmental challenge facing the country today. A recently published World Bank report offers new insights into how to meet this challenge. It calls for a shift in the country’s development strategy so that it caters for both frontier and non-frontier firms, thereby negating the historical focus on a narrow group of the most productive firms.
Frontier F...
Bangladesh Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 4, officials in Dhaka and Delhi confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.
"I can tell you that the meeting will take place," a senior official in Dhaka told the media without elaborating further. Meanwhile, New Delhi also hinted positively about the meeting. "It is expected that they'll meet," a source in New Delhi informed.
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Last month’s arrest of Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi, the leader of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, was heralded by some as a blow to Rohingya militancy. Yet, far from quelling unrest, this development may be igniting a new wave of radicalization among the Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority in Myanmar.
As hope dwindles amid worsening conditions — abandonment by former allies, slashed humanitarian aid ...
Bangladesh has sent the second mission of emergency medicines and relief supplies for the victims of the devastating earthquake in Myanmar.
The supplies and medicines were sent this morning via three transport aircraft of the Bangladesh Army (BA) and Bangladesh Air Force (BAF), following the instructions of Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus.
The mission consists of rescue and medical teams composed of rescue experts from all three services and doc...
US Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircrafts at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, on 7 September 2021 (Olivier Douliery/AFP)[/caption]
