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BIMSTEC can be a global manufacturing hub

In recent times, BIMSTEC (the Bay of Bengal Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation), an economic grouping comprising of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand as member countries, is gaining importance. The initiative for this economic cooperation was undertaken during 1997.
bimst-ecBIMSTEC was formed with the idea of imparting greater socio-economic cooperation among the member nations in the area of technology, transport and communications, energy, tourism, agriculture, fisheri...

Hilsa hits big at Kolkata fair

Grilled marinated chicken tikkas and smoking seekh kebabs from Pakistan and rice dishes from Bangladesh with Ilish (hilsa fish) are not only tasty but healthy too, according to chefs from the two countries who are here for a fair. hilsaTwo stalls from the neighbouring countries are not only rustling up delicacies at the ongoing 27th Industrial India Trade Fair here, but also dispelling myths about traditional foods. Be it the warm platters of aromatic Sindhi Dum Biriyani, or the slow cooked chicken or mutton Nahari stew, the 15 dishes served at ...

Let the speech be free in Turkey  

Though the Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that his country has the freest press in the world, but according to the International Committee to Protect Journalists, a global press freedom organization, Turkey was the world’s top jailer of journalists in 2012 and 2013, ahead of Iran and China. rise-in-violence-for-journalists-in-south-asia-press-freedomErdogan on Friday brushed off accusations that media freedoms were being ero...

Who recognised Bangladesh first?    

Bhutan’s recognition of Bangladesh without waiting for Indian advice was a clever move. It was a calculated gamble to assert its independence, says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.

Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan had very few comforts in 1971. For us, who went to Bhutan from Tokyo, with a nine-month old baby 42 years ago, the feeling was that we had walked backwards in time by about half a century. The first motorable road was opened only in 1968 and there were no commercial flights into Bhutan. The drive from the border town of Phuntsholing in India to Thimphu took the whole day, with a lunch break at Chukha, a small rivulet at that time, but a gigantic hydro-electric project now. Electricity was a rarity and we had to huddle around a bukhari, which bu...

Global conflicts to watch in 2015

Foreign policy often involves making difficult and debatable choices about which parts of the world matter more to a given country—and which, by extension, matter less. It’s about defining national interests and determining where those interests are most evident and endangered. This is why the United States has done far more to stop ISIS in Syria and Iraq than, say, sectarian war in the Central African Republic. In short, it’s about priorities. And according to a new survey of U.S. foreign-policy experts and practitioners, those priorities could look a lot like the map above in 2015, at least from America’s point of view. The map sorts potential conflicts around the world into three tiers of risk: red for high-priority threats, orange for moderate-priority threats, and yellow for low...

Kargil and India’s role in creation of Bangladesh

Pakistan's former military dictator Gen Pervez Musharraf has said he believes in a tit-for-tat policy on all fronts and claimed that Kargil conflict was in response to India's role in the creation of Bangladesh. musharraf1The 71-year-old former president, who masterminded the Kargil conflict in 1999 and ruled over Pakistan for nine years, said that India had played role in creating Bangladesh and trying to seize Siachin. "They also undertook such operations so Kargil also happened," he told Samaa TV channel. "I believed in a tit-for...