As India launches its largest-ever naval exercise with African nations, its ambitions on the global stage are on full display. The six-day operation, co-hosted by Tanzania and featuring ships from nine African nations, marks a bold attempt to elevate India’s maritime profile in the Indian Ocean and assert its presence on a continent where China, […]
India’s top diplomat made headlines this week by declaring that no other nation “wishes Bangladesh well” more than India does. Yet, within days of that heartfelt sentiment, New Delhi pulled the plug on a critical transshipment facility — one that supported Bangladesh’s struggling export economy. At the Rising Bharat Summit, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar […]
President Donald Trump’s latest tariff hike against India—an across-the-board 27 percent levy on nearly all Indian imports—exposes the deep disconnect between rhetoric and reality in the so-called friendship between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Despite public declarations of camaraderie, Trump’s trade war tactics reveal a calculated maneuver: he is leveraging India’s economic vulnerabilities […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus met Thursday on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit, offering a rare moment of diplomacy between the two neighbors at a time of regional flux and mutual anxieties about U.S. stability. It marked Modi’s first meeting with Yunus since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster in August […]
India’s lower house of parliament passed the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025, early Thursday, amending laws that govern land and property donated by Muslims for religious and charitable use. The bill permits non-Muslims to serve on boards managing waqf properties and authorizes the government to determine land ownership in the event of a dispute. Waqf properties, […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the chief advisor to Bangladesh’s interim government are expected to hold their first official bilateral meeting during the Bimstec Summit in Bangkok, according to media reports published Wednesday. Prof. Muhammad Yunus, 84, of Dhaka, assumed leadership following the ouster of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. The meeting, […]
India’s recent decision to restrict medical visas for Bangladeshi citizens is proving to be a strategic misstep with far-reaching consequences. Once a reliable destination for affordable, high-quality healthcare, India is now ceding both economic opportunity and regional influence to China—a rival eager to fill the gap. For years, India issued thousands of medical visas daily […]
Bangladesh and China have launched a direct flight service between Chittagong and Kunming, marking a strategic development in regional healthcare and diplomacy amid reduced medical visa access to India for Bangladeshi citizens. The new route, which began service Sunday, aims to support growing medical tourism from Bangladesh to China. Kunming has designated four hospitals to […]
Leadership is tested in moments of crisis. When a nation faces sectarian violence, a true leader steps forward to restore order and reaffirm the values of peace and unity. Yet, once again, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has remained silent as Hindu nationalist groups engage in violence—this time in Nagpur, where clashes over Aurangzeb’s tomb have […]
It is troubling that a centuries-old tomb has once again become a flashpoint for religious conflict in India. The recent clashes in Nagpur, sparked by demands from Hindu nationalist groups to demolish Mughal emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb, show just how fragile peace can be in a nation increasingly consumed by divisive rhetoric. Even more absurd is […]
