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Gulf states not to allow US to use airfields, skies to attack Iran

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have imposed a ban on US warplanes using their airfields or skies to attack Iran after US President Donald Trump over the weekend threatened to bomb the country.
[caption id="attachment_33272" align="alignleft" width="557"] US Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircrafts at al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, on 7 September 2021 (Olivier Douliery/AFP)[/caption]

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BJP, RSS fear regime change in India like Hasina

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."
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Towards a new job-creation agenda in Bangladesh

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.

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1st-ever Yunus-Modi in-person meet April 4

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.

Potential of Bangladesh-Türkiye strategic partnership

In an era of geopolitical volatility and economic restructuring, the burgeoning relationship between Bangladesh and Türkiye offers a compelling case study in South-South cooperation. While historical ties and shared cultural values have long connected these two nations, the potential for a deeper, more strategic alliance remains largely untapped. The economic relationship between Bangladesh and Türkiye is currently characterized by promising, but still relatively modest, trade volumes. In fiscal ...

The lessons of Bangladesh

It’s the middle of the night, and news is breaking around the globe as most of Bloomington-Normal sleeps. A mild-mannered professor from Illinois State University is often awake in these quiet hours. There’s a 12-hour time difference between Bangladesh and Bloomington-Normal, so Dr. Ali Riaz often finds himself monitoring events in his home country deep into the night. The Distinguished Professor in Illinois State’s Department of Politics and Government is a scholar of South Asian politics, especially the political landscape in his native land. Last August, an uprising led mostly by students rejecting the government’s turn to full-blown autocracy caused Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to leave the country after 15 years in office. An interim government, le...
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