Opinion
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently forecast that Bangladesh's economic growth over the coming months of this fiscal year will touch 5.5% in the current FY23, putting it in a favorable image compared to that put by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB)'s projec...
South–South cooperation (SSC) is a term historically used by policymakers and academics to describe the exchange of resources, technology, and knowledge between the developing countries who are also referred to as the Global South because of the different dimensions within their paradigm. One ...
The world including Bangladesh has observed once again the ‘World Autism Awareness Day’ on 2 April. We have reiterated our belief that all of us should attach more significance in the achievement of a ‘Neuro Inclusive World. For All’ that can help improve the lives of childre...
Analyst Stephen Collinson has observed that the entire visit of Chinese President to Russia and his discussions with Russian President Putin has only underlined Beijing’s emergence as a great power whose influence now stretches far beyond Asia.However it is clear that the United States a...
The international reaction to the diplomatic rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran in the second week of March- after seven years of tension that was threatening stability and security in the Middle East - through restoration of diplomatic ties has been very positive. The fact that there has a...
Several interesting and significant denominators have emerged throughout the world during the observance of the International Women's Day, 2023 on 8 March. Analysts underlined the importance of positive action when gaining fundamental rights for women was still proving dif...
The Biden administration on November 29 last year announced that the governments of Costa Rica, the Netherlands, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Zambia, and the United States will co-host the second ‘Summit for Democracy’ on March 29-30, 2023. Building on the first Summit, th...
The world has also watched how the latest UNGA in its eleventh emergency special session responded to calls for Russia’s immediate withdrawal from Ukraine. The Resolution was adopted as 141 Members voted in favor; seven against (Belarus, DPRK, Eritrea, Mali, Nicaragua, Russia and Syria) and 32...
Shortly before leaving for his first state visit to China in the middle of February, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a thinly veiled criticism of his powerful ally, saying the two countries’ relationship- trade and economic ties- had not lived up to expectations. The world was...
The toll from the two huge earthquakes has crossed 36,000 across south eastern Turkey and northern Syria. In addition to hundreds of thousand affected survivors, tens of thousands of injured persons have been pulled out of the debris across the affected region. However these figures are not final an...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his latest visit to the Middle East urged Israel and Palestinians to calm tensions and also reaffirmed the long-stalled peace vision for a two-state solution as the "only path" forward. Through this he raised hopes in the horizon filled with desp...
Reports from the international media have been drawing attention in the recent past to two aspects in particular- (a) Myanmar’s military authorities announcing strict new election law ahead of the polls supposed to take place in Myanmar later this year and (b) that Myanmar’s major o...
After three Lunar New Year holidays – from 2020 to 2022 – when travel restrictions, as well as quarantine and testing requirements, kept so many families apart, many appear to have grappled with taking difficult decisions this year- not only in China but also in many other countries in A...
December 2022 brought forth an analytical storm from socio-economists and geo-strategists about what a country or institution or community needs to carefully monitor in the first quarter of 2023. The principal emphasis was on how the global economy is likely to evolve within the changing conditions ...
Most countries are carefully noting how European nations are trying to overcome different dimensions related to their current energy crisis. Since the emergence of the Ukraine conflict nearly one year ago the challenges have intensified. It has exacerbated supply issues and also led to the cos...
The global agreement reached at the UN Conference to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030 has had a good start. Convened in Montreal, Canada in December, 2022, the COP 15 Agreement on a Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) has raised hopes about the possibility of reversing the global crisis fa...
UNDP considers that insecurity resulting from the current evolving dimensions in the world needs to be viewed as significant risks , particularly pertaining to life’s absolute necessities – air, water, food and shelter. Analysts feel that these rank as a...
Attention has been drawn recently to a development which has continued to grow throughout the world and affect socio-economic engagement. It is now being seen as an abuse of good governance and violation of human rights.In these times when all sorts of human rights violations are being perpetr...
The media has also indicated that Xi’s visit, his third journey outside China since the coronavirus pandemic began, included his attendance at a “Saudi-Chinese summit,” a China-Arab and a China-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit. Apparently China and Saudi Arabia signed a c...
An All-Party Conference was convened in Lahore in February 1966 where the central issue was the Tashkent agreement and its ramifications. The participants also included delegates from the then East Pakistan, led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He used this forum to present his Six Point Progra...
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