By Nitya Chakraborty The interim Chief Adviser of Bangladesh Government Dr. Muhammad Yunus has finally announced the holding of national elections in the country in the first half of April next year defying the demand of the main opposition party BNP to hold it in December this year. The final dates will be notified by […]
By Nitya Chakraborty 26 days have passed since the temporary truce in the limited four day war between India and Pakistan taking effect on May 10 this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking of his three point doctrine since then, the most important of which is no dialogue with Pakistan unless the ruling […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The political crisis in Bangladesh has reached its flashpoint in the last 48 hours with two opposing groups getting ready for a major confrontation on the issue of holding elections in the country. One side is led by the newly floated party of the students – National Citizens Party (NCP) backed by […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The four day visit of the Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar to China ended on Wednesday May 21 with top Chinese leaders assuring Dar that ‘as an ironclad friend, China, as always, firmly support Pakistan in safeguarding its national sovereignty and territorial integrity, support Pakistan in exploring a development path […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Soon after organizing a 90 day truce last week end at Geneva through three day intensive talks between top officials of the United States and China, President Donald Trump is on a three nation tour covering Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE to pursue his deal making focusing on both trade and security. […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has placed India in a very advantageous position vis a vis Pakistan in the limited war that lasted for four days beginning early hours of May 7. The ceasefire that took effect from 5 PM of May 10 was more engineered by desperate Pakistan which hoodwinked the US […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The joint declaration issued by the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Chinese President Xi Jinping on the eve of the Victory Day on May 9 upholding longstanding friendship to pursue mutual benefit and win-win outcomes in the new era carries major significance in the present period of global tariff war as […]
By Nitya Chakraborty More than forty hours have passed since the missile strikes by Indian military on the nine terror camp sites in Pakistan. The situation in both New Delhi and Islamabad is witnessing the same type of preparations indicating that Pakistan is getting ready for another military confrontation with India after the Kargil war […]
By Nitya Chakraborty It is now official. After waiting for a few days since Donald Trump diluted the U.S. tariff rates for China and announced his intention for talks, China confirmed on Wednesday morning that a high level Chinese negotiating team will be visiting Switzerland for four days beginning May 9 to hold talks with […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Ten days have passed since the gruesome killings of 26 people at Pahalgam on April 22. In the following days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a lead to the boiling mood of the nation by announcing a number of measures, including the suspension of the 1960-signed Indus Water Treaty, followed by Pakistan’s […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The United States of America President Donald J. Trump has completed his first one hundred days in office in his second non-consecutive term on April 29, Tuesday amidst continuing global disorder over his chaotic policies — unilateral tariffs hike, failure to establish peace in Gaza with Israeli killing spree continuing unabated and […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Three days have passed since the savage terrorist attack at Pahalgam resulting in the death of 26 people, mostly tourists. The communal tenor of the massacre shocked the Indian people. There was unequivocal demand from the people supported by all sections of the political parties that the Narendra Modi government must take […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Chinese President Xi Jinping has won the first round in the protracted battle against Donald Trump over his declaration of tariff war against China. After waiting for long three weeks for a personal call from XI Jinping offering talks to discuss the proposed tariff hikes, Trump partially retreated on Tuesday when he […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser to the interim government Dr. Muhammad Yunus is presently in the midst of his diplomatic triumph by successfully outreaching to the major countries of the world including the two super powers. After having a major success in getting all the support from the Chinese President Xi Jinping during his […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Though there is a 90 day pause in Trump’s latest unilateral imposition of reciprocal tariffs on most of the countries, the trade war between the USA and China, the two largest economies of the world is in full steam imparting tremors in global trade and economy. Close advisers of Trump were expecting […]
By Nitya Chakraborty What is happening to the “Neighbourhood First” policy of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the year 2025? Modi is an expert in coining attractive slogans whether those finally work or not. For South Asia, he opted for Neighbourhood First and for South East Asia and ASEAN nations Act East. At […]
By Nitya Chakraborty 71 year old CPI(M) politburo member Mariam Alexander Baby has taken over as the sixth general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) following his nomination at the 24th congress of the Party which concluded at Madurai on April 6. Baby is a veteran leader of the CPI(M) from Kerala with […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known globally as Lula has launched a major initiative to meet the U.S. President Donald Trump’s unilateral tariff offensive by joining hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Russian President Vladimir Putin, apart from taking assistance from South Africa and a few other […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The inevitable has happened. Narendra Modi government’s myopic policy on handling the interim government of Bangladesh headed by Dr. Muhammad Yunus has led this important neighbour of India into Chinese lap. The Xi Jinping-Yunus meeting held in Beijing on March 28 gave its final seal of approval to the economic strategy of […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Russian President’s pending visit to India has turned into a big diplomatic mystery as in the last five months since the Kazan summit on October 22 last year when Putin officially confirmed his visit to India in the presence of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi amidst full media and TV glare, […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known as the super salesman of jumlas. Beginning from Jan Dhan account of Rs. 15 lakh for everyone to generating two crore jobs for youth every year, all the hyped up propaganda of the BJP led government since 2014 have turned into a big flop. Even in […] 
