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India-Bangladesh: What to Expect During Prime Minister Hasina's Visit?
Amit Ranjan. · 29 Mar, 2017 · #5257 · Commentary
After a long delay of seven years and some postponements, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, will finally pay an official visit to India. This visit - scheduled for 7-10 April 2017 - will have a long-term impact on South Asian regiona ...
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China's Belt and Road Initiative: Should India be Concerned?
Anand Kumar. · 14 Dec, 2016 · #5204 · Commentary
The Belt and Road Initiative, also known as the One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project, launched by the Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013 is one of the most ambitious projects of recent times. This project, which has both overland and maritime compon ...
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Fragile States Index 2016
FSI and South Asia
Monish Gulati. · 10 Oct, 2016 · #5149 · Commentary
The Fragile States Index (FSI) is an annual ranking
of 178 nations, conceived with the core notion that weak and failing states
pose a challenge to the international community and in a highly interconnected
world, ‘pressures’ on one ...
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Fragile States Index 2016
Bangladesh: A Conflict Shatter Zone
Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman. · 06 Oct, 2016 · #5148 · Commentary
The Fragile States Index (FSI), published annually by the Washington DC based The Fund for Peace has come out with its report for 2016, which covers the conflict events for the year 2015. This article analyzes the indicators provided by the report ...
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The Myth of 'Homegrown Terror'-III
Mapping the Dhaka Gulshan Attack: Who was Tamim Chowdhary?
Angshuman Choudhury. · 04 Oct, 2016 · #5143 · Commentary
On 27 August 2016, Tamim Ahmed Chowdhary alias Abu Shaykh Al-Hanif - the mastermind of the recent Gulshan attack in Dhaka - was killed in a raid by Bangladeshi security forces in Narayanganj.
Chowdhary's identification, and the state ...
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IPCS Discussion
Security of Bangladesh in the South Asian Context
Report. · 17 Aug, 2016 · #5108 · Commentary
On 26 July 2016, for the second interaction under its Twentieth Anniversary Plenum Series, IPCS hosted Mr Moudud Ahmed, former Vice-President and former Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, for a talk on Security of Banglade ...
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The Myth of ‘Homegrown Terror’- II
The Islamic State in Bangladesh
Angshuman Choudhury. · 04 Aug, 2016 · #5095 · Commentary
The assessment in the first part of this analysis leads to the assumption that the Dhaka attack was a manifestation of a new, hybridised terror dynamic in Bangladesh that involves at least some degree of international involvement, in this case the ...
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The Myth of Home-Grown Terror-I
Mapping out the Dhaka Gulshan Attack
Angshuman Choudhury. · 19 Jul, 2016 · #5087 · Commentary
The current narrative of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) surrounding the 1 July terror attack at Dhaka’s Gulshan area is premised on the assumption that there is no presence of the Islamic State (IS) in Bangladesh. The attack was directly ...
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Rising Radicalism in Bangladesh
Assessing Bangladesh’s Ground Reality
Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman. · 18 Jul, 2016 · #5084 · Commentary
Walking down the streets of Gulshan and Mohakhali in the central business district of Dhaka, one can sense a curious mix of chaos and order. Various government offices, private and international donor agencies, conference centres, embassies, shoppi ...
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Rising Radicalism in Bangladesh
Terror Attacks in Dhaka: The Way Ahead for India
Souvik Chatterji. · 11 Jul, 2016 · #5079 · Commentary
On 1 July 2016, suspected Islamic State (IS) militants mounted an attack in
Holey Artisan café in Gulshan, Dhaka. There are indications of Jamaat-e-Islami
groups being involved in the alleged terror attack.The Bangladeshi security
forces ...
