To combat potential insurgencies before the next general election in Bangladesh in 2024, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) has been training special forces in Bangladesh and India. For the last two
The security landscape of India’s North-East in 2026 reflected a complex mixture of consolidation, transition and renewed volatility. While several States sustained the gradual decline in insurgency-related violence achieved over the past
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There is a particular kind of hypocrisy that comes dressed in the language of law. India has spent decades presenting itself to the world as South Asia’s responsible anchor a democratic heavyweight
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India Bangladesh relations were placed on an even keel after Bangladesh Nationalist Party [BNP] government was elected to power and party leader and heir Mr Tarique Rahman adopted an enlightened approach after
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In the refined idiom of jurisprudence! The term “shall” wields commanding authority of the highest order, elevating a mere expression into an obligatory mandate. More clearly, in legal parlance, the word “shall”
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Pakistan and Bangladesh have taken a significant step toward formal security cooperation, signing what is effectively the first publicly acknowledged bilateral security framework between the two countries since the political upheaval that
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India’s latest dispute with Bangladesh over alleged “illegal immigrants” has exposed growing contradictions between New Delhi’s regional rhetoric and its actual conduct toward neighbouring states. For years, India has presented itself as
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Saint Martin’s Island, a diminutive coral isle in the north-eastern Bay of Bengal, lies nine kilometres south of the Cox’s Bazar–Teknaf peninsula, marking Bangladesh’s southernmost edge. Barely three square kilometres in area,
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Wings of servitude! A grossly slavery treaty! An egregiously servile accord, this treaty reeks of subjugation and ignominy, reducing sovereignty to a hollow illusion. It binds the weaker party in chains of
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Diplomacy, as Winston Churchill once observed, is “the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” It is a craft of nuance, restraint,
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A ceremony has been held in Bangladesh to mark the beginning of nuclear fuel loading into the first unit of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, the country’s first-ever nuclear power facility. The
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