The rationale underlying the US position to restrict itself to a procedural resolution becomes clearer. It will help to mobilise those same countries that voted in 2012 to back the US-sponsored resolution. It will also keep the resolution of 2012 alive on the UNHRC agenda to be brought up again in 2014 when the country comes closer to the next […]

The rationale underlying the US position to restrict itself to a procedural resolution becomes clearer. It will help to mobilise those same countries that voted in 2012 to back the US-sponsored resolution. It will also keep the resolution of 2012 alive on the UNHRC agenda to be brought up again in 2014 when the country comes closer to the next […]

Modi and Rahul are distinct political entities. Modi is an extrovert who intimidates and repels prospective coalition partners; Rahul, an introvert, is, on current showing, shy of coalitions. This aversion to coalitions is being rationalised as a tactic to wait, even beyond 2019, when the electorate will become so disenchanted with coalitions that it will produce a parliamentary majority for […]

FEBRUARY 4 has been marked as World Cancer Day since 2006 in line with an announcement by the World Health Organisation. However, the day was first conceptualised in 1933 in Geneva, under the Union for International Cancer Control, with support from prominent cancer societies, treatment centres, research institutes and patient groups, and aiming to bring down the number of deaths […]

DIPANKAR Chakroborty has passed away. It’s already been a few days. Busy days are moving past. Moving are the wings of time. But the question comes up: who he was? Dipankar Chakroborty (1941-2013) was a friend of Bangladesh, a friend of Bengalis. He cherished a prosperous Bangladesh, a Bangladesh free from all forms of external influence and intervention. Dipankar Chakroborty, […]

Tom Heinemann has previously made a critical documentary about Muhammad Yunus and the micro-loan project, which led to the Nobel Peace Prize. Because of the critical documentary, Muhammad Yunus in two and a half years have refused to talk to Tom Heinemann. ‘P1 Orientering’ accepted Muhammad Yunus refusal to be interviewed by Heinemann and sent instead of another journalist writes […]

The nature of the cooperation between India and Israel in dealing with terrorism raises fundamental questions not only about India’s views on terrorism but also on how it understands the nature of the Palestinian struggle, writes Ninan Koshy ‘IT IS advisable for the democratic countries of the US, Israel and India to come together with an integrated task force to […]

Corruption and stealing threaten a once-vibrant nation WILL 2013 be a watershed in US-Bangladeshi relations? My country of 150 million people, located between India and Myanmar, has been independent since 1971, when the United States was one of the first nations to recognize our right to self-determination. Yet in the past year, relations have been strained to the point where […]

Only three million people in this country of 160 million are extreme poor. When the country has 1.9 million wealthy people and a very strong middle class, is it really difficult to graduate these 3 million out of poverty within a year? Many of us are able and interested to help at least one extreme poor people in our lifetime […]

While US officials excoriate Tehran for either ‘playing for time’ or being too internally conflicted to negotiate seriously, it is Washington that has not been diplomatically serious. Iran has consistently been prepared to accept more intrusive monitoring of — and perhaps negotiated limits on — its nuclear activities, if Western powers would in turn recognise its right to enrich uranium […]