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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...
India performed creditably in the May 2025 India-Pakistan war, says Stimson Centre analyst
By P.K. Balachandran Colombo, January 3 –Though India lost some aircraft in the four-day India-Pakistan air war in May 2025, it struck deep into Pakistan with missiles and drones while defending itself well against similar attacks by Pakistan, says Christopher Clary, a Fellow at Stimson...
Emerging multipolar world could be India’s moment
By Milinda Moragoda/Pathfinder Foundation India’s influence today extends well beyond South Asia. Its economic gravity increasingly shapes outcomes across West Asia, Africa, the Indo-Pacific Colombo, January 3 – As the world enters a new year, it is becoming increasingly clear that South Asia’s existing models...
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
From 2015 to 2025 – Two Mumbai New Year’s Eves, and the changing story of delivery riders
By Laxmi/Substack Mumbai, January 1- Ten years ago today, on December 31, 2015, I snapped a photo on the streets of Colaba, Mumbai: a Domino’s delivery rider wearing a bright red helmet, carrying two large blue insulated boxes boldly labelled “Yehi Hai Right On Time”...
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...
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...
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