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Tibetans Coming To India Reduced To A Trickle – OpEd

The annual flow of ethnic Tibetans entering India has dropped sharply due to strong border controls by the Chinese and stiff

12.12.2024 7

Eurasia Review

Subir Bhaumik

China Compels Myanmar Rebel Groups To Negotiate With Junta – OpEd

China has forced two powerful armed rebel groups in north Myanmar to start negotiations with the Burmese military junta and

10.12.2024 6

Eurasia Review

Subir Bhaumik

Bangladesh’s Impending Descent Into Islamist Republic – OpEd

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus’s interim administration apparently plans to turn Bangladesh into an Islamist Republic. The country’s...

15.11.2024 6

Eurasia Review

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Naga Rebel Group Threatens To Resume Armed Struggle If Necessary – OpEd

The main faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland ( NSCN) has threatened to resume ” violent armed resistance” against India to...

09.11.2024 20

Eurasia Review

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Race In The Clouds: Indian Army’s High Altitude International Marathon – OpEd

Apparently , it is all about showcasing the breathtaking beauty of this Himalayan foothill town housing an ancient Buddhist monastery

28.10.2024 9

Eurasia Review

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Ethnic Violence In Bangladesh’s Hill Region Leaves Many Dead – OpEd

The failure of Bangladesh’s interim government to control law and order in the country came into sharp focus this week with the eruption of ethnic...

22.09.2024 10

Eurasia Review

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Bangladesh: A Vendetta Republic – OpEd

Two recent incidents in conflict-ravaged Bangladesh raises serious questions about its interim government’s chief adviser Mohammed Yunus’ pitch...

01.09.2024 5

Eurasia Review

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Bangladesh’s Islamist Opposition Wants Election Roadmap – OpEd

Bangladesh’s interim government chief advisor Prof Muhammed Yunus may want to take his time for implementing reforms needed to institutionalise...

27.08.2024 10

Eurasia Review

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Elections In Bangladesh To Be Delayed – OpEd

Chances of an immediate parliament election in troubled Bangladesh faded this week when the country’s interim government head Muhammad Yunus

20.08.2024 6

Eurasia Review

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Biggest Defeat For Burmese Army In Escalating Civil War – OpEd

The Burmese army Tatmadaw is heading for its worst defeat in the escalating civil war engulfing Myanmar for nearly a

31.07.2024 7

Eurasia Review

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Bangladesh On The Boil: Court Hearing Advanced – OpEd

In what is seen as desperate attempt to bring under control an escalating student movement that has left nearly 30 dead so far, the Appellate Division...

19.07.2024 4

Eurasia Review

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Tibetan Exile President Ups Ante In Nomenclature War – OpEd

The Tibetan exile government says it will “strongly counter” Beijing, which has been renaming Tibetan places with Chinese names. Penpa Tsering,...

18.07.2024 3

Eurasia Review

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India Needs A National Reconciliation Day – OpEd

June 30 passes off with some celebrations in tiny northeast Indian state of Mizoram as the day of peace or Remna Ni but the rest of India takes no...

01.07.2024 5

Eurasia Review

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India Reiterates Tibet Position After US Delegation Visit – OpEd

Immediately after a visiting US delegation upped the ante on Tibet, India reiterated its stance on His Holiness’ Dalai Lama, emphasising his...

23.06.2024 10

Eurasia Review

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China’s Sri Lanka Refinery Alarms India – OpEd

In a move that will up alarms in India, China’s giant conglomerate Sinopec is entering Sri Lanka’s energy market with its

21.06.2024 6

Eurasia Review

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Accused Indian Murderer Back In US – OpEd

Indian national Nikhil Gupta, accused in US for involvement in the attempted murder of a Sikh extremist,  has been extradited by the Czech Republic...

17.06.2024 7

Eurasia Review

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US Bill On Tibet After India’s Renaming Challenge To China – OpEd

A bill passed by US lawmakers, seeking to counter China’s claim of controlling Tibet since “ancient times,” has landed on...

14.06.2024 10

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Bangladesh Ruling Party MP Calls For Action Against Corruption – OpEd

In a house where binoculars are needed to find Opposition MPs, it has been left to a few clean lawmakers in the ruling Awami League to raise the...

10.06.2024 9

Eurasia Review

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India-China Nomenclature War Intensifies In The Himalayas – OpEd

India has intensified with China “a silent war” focussed on challenging China’s renaming of places in India’s Arunachal Pradesh state to...

03.06.2024 10

Eurasia Review

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Bangladesh MP Murder Wake-Up Call For Awami League – OpEd

The gruesome murder of Bangladesh MP Md. Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata has sent shockwaves across the border in both Bengals .   The prime murder...

27.05.2024 10

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‘India Out’ Fizzles Out On Eid, Noboborsho – OpEd

“What India Out,” exclaims an angry Mir Mostaque Ahmed Robi, a former Bangladesh lawmaker. “In last 2 days, I have purchased leather goods worth...

17.04.2024 9

Eurasia Review

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Both Democracies, But India-US Differences Nagging – OpEd

The world has heard enough of those cliche — cooperation between the world’s oldest democracy, the United States, and the world’s most populous...

08.04.2024 10

Eurasia Review

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Cambodia: Asia’s New Fraud Capital – OpEd

A French diplomat staying in a riverfront hotel in the Cambodian capital is attracted by the rate board on the massage parlours . ‘5 US dollars for...

29.03.2024 7

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Assam Rifles, India’s Unique Asymetric Warfare Option – OpEd

The Indian Navy and its marine commandos Marcos have come in for global praise for its multi-focal special operational capability

21.03.2024 4

Eurasia Review

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Mujib’s Legacy And Contemporary Bangladesh – OpEd

On his 124th birthday, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who led Bangladesh to freedom will not only be remembered as Bangabandhu (Friend of Bengalis), but also...

17.03.2024 20

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US Investigates Modi’s Friend Adani, But Not Bangladesh – OpEd

The US is India’s strategic partner while Bangladesh is its closest friend in South Asia.  But while that does not stop the Biden administration...

17.03.2024 10

Eurasia Review

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Bangladesh’s Banking Sector Heading For Collapse? – OpEd

The country’s central bank, Bangladesh Bank (BB)’s latest report has found more than two-thirds of the banks in the country in the weak to very...

12.03.2024 9

Eurasia Review

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Tibetans And Indians Demonstrate Against Chinese ‘Aggression’ – OpEd

Tibetan and Indian protestors demonstrated against China’s ‘aggression’ against Tibet as well as ‘incursions’ into Indian border states...

11.03.2024 7

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Burmese Military Junta Reels Under Fresh Rebel Offensive – OpEd

Even as China managed to bring the three-group Brotherhood Alliance to the table and reports emerged of a limited understanding thos week between them...

09.03.2024 4

Eurasia Review

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Hong Kong’s New Security Law Raises Fears Of Lost Freedoms – OpEd

Hong Kong’s government has began the process of adopting a controversial new national security law that critics fear will further roll back civil...

08.03.2024 10

Eurasia Review

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US Court Witnesses Spine-Chilling Story – OpEd

A Japanese crime lord has been charged with smuggling weapons- grade nuclear material sourced to Myanmar, raising questions how such material was...

25.02.2024 3

Eurasia Review

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Visa Application Volumes Almost Back To Pre-Covid Levels, But Less China Travel – OpEd

India’s top market for outbound tourism, the eastern city of Kolkata, has in 2023 regained visa application volumes to 91% of pre-pandemic level,...

22.02.2024 5

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Indian Army Prepares For A Tough Summer On China Border – OpEd

The Indian Army says it is preparing in full earnest to counter anticipated Chinese incursions and “other forms of aggression” along the Line of...

22.02.2024 8

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Bold New History Of Asian Identity – Book Review

Rarely would one read a history of thought and one of an evolving continental identity as exciting as Sugato Bose’s “Asia after Europe: Imagining...

20.02.2024 6

Eurasia Review

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Myanmar: Arakan Army Changes Couse Amid Military Success – OpEd

The Arakan Army fighting for an independent Rakhine State in southwestern Myanmar seems to have given up its secessionist goal. “We’ve never...

17.02.2024 10

Eurasia Review

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Bangladesh’s Serious Foreign Exchange Crisis Gets Worse – OpEd

Finally the cat is out of the bag. After months of self-denial, Bangladesh has finally sought support from Saudi Arabia to tackle the country’s...

12.02.2024 40

Eurasia Review

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Van Schendel: Spirit Of 1971 Never Quite Returned To Bangladesh After 1975 – Interview

Europe’s leading scholar on South Asian borderlands Willem Van Schendel discussed in depth a host of issues with Subir Bhaumik on the sidelines of ...

08.02.2024 60

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Three Years After Coup, Myanmar Military Junta Falling Apart – OpEd

Exactly three years after the coup that blocked an elected government from taking power, Myanmar’s oppressive military junta seems to be falling...

05.02.2024 6

Eurasia Review

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India’s Myanmar Border Fencing Plan Opposed By Tribal States – OpEd

Indian Home Minister Amir Shah has announced plans to erect barbed wire fencing on the country’s 1,643 kms long border with Myanmar, overriding...

22.01.2024 20

Eurasia Review

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Bangladesh Opposition Follows Muizzu’s ‘India Out’ Campaign – OpEd

Bangladesh’s leading Opposition party BNP has launched an “India Out” campaign on the lines of Maldives’ present ruling party led by President...

19.01.2024 20

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Indian Neighborhood Woes Multiply – OpEd

India has a really smart and erudite foreign minister in S. Jaishankar whose books make interesting reading and takes on the high and mighty on the...

10.01.2024 20

Eurasia Review

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Bangladesh Army Reluctant Of Election Deployment – OpEd

The 1,600,000-strong Bangladesh Army is ‘seriously reviewing’ implications  of deployment to maintain law and order in the rundown to and during...

01.01.2024 20

Eurasia Review

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Selection Trial, Not Contest In Strange Bangladesh Poll – OpEd

It’s Awami League versus Awami League in Bangladesh’s forthcoming parliament polls scheduled on Jan 7. The leading Opposition Bangladesh...

18.12.2023 10

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