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Khaleda Zia – a valiant fighter for democracy
By P. K. Balachandran/Sunday Observer Colombo, January 4 – Bangladeshi leader, Begum Khaleda Zia, who died of multiple illnesses in Dhaka on Tuesday at the age of 80, had a packed 44-year political career marked by both achievements and controversies. But there is no gainsaying...
Jaishankar’s objective in initiating handshake with Ayaz Sadiq in Dhaka
Jaishankar’s friendly gesture towards Pakistan parliament’s Speaker Ayaz Sadiq was most probably meant to be noticed and deciphered in Bangladesh rather than in Pakistan
Khaleda Zia was Bangladesh’s Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Both were strong nationalists and initiators of radical changes in their countries’ domestic and foreign policies
Jaishankar hands over Modi’s letter to BNP Acting chair Tarique Rahman
Dhaka, December 31 – India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S.Jaishankar left Dhaka following a whirlwind 4-hrour visit on Wednesday. Bangladesh and India would look forward to script a new chapter in bilateral ties, in shared interests driven by pragmatism and mutual interdependence, as indeed briefly...
Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party Khaleda Zia passes away
Dhaka, December 30 (TOB)- The Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and three-times former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia passed away on December 30. She was 80. She breathed her last at 6am on Tuesday while undergoing treatment at the Evercare Hospital in the...
India and Bangladesh heading for a rapprochement
By P.K. Balachandran/Daily News Colombo, December 30 – India, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Interim Government led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus, appear to have entered an informal understanding to bring back inclusive democracy to Bangladesh, put Indo-Bangla relations back on the rails and...
Bangladesh’s students’ party NCP squandered its legitimacy
NCP teams up with the Jamaat-e-Islami
Returning to Bangladesh from exile, stiff challenges await BNP leader Tarique Rahman
Bangladeshis are yearning for law and order, checks on corruption and a sense of direction from Rahman who returned from a 17 year exile on December 25 to take charge of his disabled Bangladesh National Party
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