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 […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Europe, which has always been vocal about its past history and civilization as well its contribution to the making of the modern world, has never faced such humiliation in the hands of its transatlantic ally the USA in the last eighty years since the end of the Second World War in 1945.The […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Is the Bangladesh Army going to take over control of their politically turbulent country, either from front or behind, to precipitate the holding of early elections? This question is being raised by the seasoned political observers in Dhaka, as the whole of last week was dominated by highly controversial posts on Facebook, […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Bangladesh has officially sought a meeting between their head of interim government Dr. Mohammad Yunus and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the coming BIMSTEC meeting at Bangkok on April 2-4 next. Both countries are members of BIMSTEC. As per present schedule, both have confirmed their presence at […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Narendra Modi has been heading the Indian government as the Prime Minister since 2014. He has made so far many observations about the delicate India-China relations in the last nearly eleven years, but his observations on this issue made to the American journalist cum researcher Lex Fridman in his podcast released on […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Indrajit Gupta, the dedicated Communist leader of India in the last century and an outstanding Parliamentarian dominated the country’s trade union movement and the Left movement for the last sixty years of the 20th century. He belonged to that generation of leaders from undivided Bengal whose sense of patriotism and deep anguish […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Sidelined by the Trump 2.0 administration and rebuffed by India, Bangladesh interim government is exploring all avenues to rejuvenate the country’s ailing economy by expanding its trade and investment relationship with Pakistan and China. The objective is to reduce the dependence on India in major areas where the outsourcing is possible from […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The 14th National People’s Congress of China ended its one-week-long session in Beijing on Tuesday March 11 with a clear direction given by the President and the Communist Party supremo Xi Jinping that China will take on the disruptions made in the global order by the United States president Donald Trump in […]
By Nitya Chakraborty How is China, the second largest economic and military power of the world after the United States is planning to confront the second term U.S. President Donald Trump’s resurgence disrupting the so long established global order to impose his total domination on international politics? Every political analyst is looking at the current […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The U.S. President Donald Trump has fired his missile on Europe, especially, France, UK and Germany by suspending arms aid to Ukraine after categorically making it clear that President Zelensky has to agree to the peace and security deal proposed by Trump on Friday in the White House meeting. The deal is […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Is the global geopolitics moving a full circle after 80 years since the end of the Second World War in 1945? The question is now extremely relevant after the world saw on Friday in TV channels the unprecedented spat between the United States president Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Democratic rights activist Jagdeep S. Chhokar in his recent piece in the news portal The Wire mentions of his four conclusions on the state of Indian polity in the present stage after the BJP sweep in Delhi assembly polls. His four concluding points are- first, the BJP is almost achieving an opposition-free […] 
