by Our Diplomatic Affairs Editor India has decided to sideline Sri Lanka from a substantive role at this year’s BRICS summit in New Delhi, scheduled for 12–13 September this weekend, according to
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Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Shafiqur Rahman has said his party will not compromise on any major issue affecting the country’s democratic process, particularly the right to vote, as polling took place in the Dhaka-15
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir cast his vote on Thursday morning in the Thakurgaon-1 (Sadar) constituency, describing the election as a decisive moment that will determine the
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Sri Lanka has taken a major step toward abolishing the parliamentary pension system that has existed for almost five decades, after the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Public Administration, Justice and Civil Protection
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Japan is once again confronting one of the most sensitive questions in its postwar history: whether to revise the Constitution that has defined the nation’s pacifist identity for nearly eight decades. Newly
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The mutual hostility between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other since the 1978 Islamic Revolution and the establishment of the unique political system known as
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Pakistan is grappling with an alarming surge of violence along ethnic and sectarian lines. On February 6, 2026, a suicide bombing during Friday prayers at the Khadija al-Kubra Imambargah in Islamabad killed
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In this interview, former Bangladeshi ambassador Mohammad Harun Al Rashid delivers a blunt assessment of the political upheaval in his country, describing recent developments as “not merely political regression; it is civilizational
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On 20 May 2017, during a violent protest planned by sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was attacked by a mob that accused him of being a Chavista. After being
More Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi emerged from Sunday’s snap lower house election with the strongest mandate seen in postwar Japan, a political triumph that reshapes the country’s domestic balance of power while sending
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