Date: December 6, 2009
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the United States was the first such visit by a Head of State/Government under the Obama administration. The hosts used this point in the media to single out the visit as a special one. Likewise, the state banquet given to the Indian Prime Minister, where over 300 guests were invited, was also mentioned in the media in great details to underscore the care and the attention that the hosts have taken to make the visit remarkable.
Date: December 3, 2009
US President Barack Obama met the leaders of the two most populous nations in a span of ten days. Obama paid a state visit to China from November 15-18, where he met President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. Soon after his return to Washington from the APEC Summit in Singapore, he greeted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Washington as a state guest from November 23-25.
Date: November 21, 2009
THE Indian Foreign Secretary's visit ended positively for a number of reasons. She was upbeat about the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India next month. The fact that Nirupama Rao found time to meet Khaleda Zia and refrained from calling on the Army Chief that her predecessor had done added to the positive tone of her visit.
Date: November 14, 2009
THE civil society in Bangladesh plays a significant role in articulating people's interests in special areas to the government. In recent times, the civil society has built up consciousness among the people on major national issues such as corruption, climate degradation, and land grabbing by influential people in the society that have left Bangladesh's rivers, canals, and wetlands at their mercy.
Date: November 6, 2009
PAKISTAN is at war with itself. The situation there is worrying and sad. It is worrying because the Taliban over the past several weeks have freely chosen to attack highly secure targets in Islamabad and other major cities, causing widespread damage.
Date: October 28, 2009
Bangladesh elected member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for a three-year term beginning from January 1, 2010.
Date: October 28, 2009
India yesterday replaced its High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, according to an official announcement of Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
Date: October 24, 2009
The things that are currently happening in Pakistan are unbelievable. Suicide and ordinary bombings causing deaths and destruction that are “breaking news” elsewhere are ordinary news in Pakistan. But the attack by the militants on the army headquarter in Rawalpindi early this month is absurd even by Pakistani standards. The militants followed the Rawalpindi attack with three attacks simultaneously carried out in Lahore on top security installations that have underscored the tightening of alliance between the Taliban, Al Qaeda and militant groups in Punjab.
Date: October 18, 2009
ON October 1, the five Security Council members and Germany (P5+1) -- known as the "six-party" -- met in Geneva with Iran for a fresh round of talks over Iran's nuclear program. Actually, the meeting was called last April, but Iran delayed its acceptance.
Date: October 17, 2009
BANGLADESH and Myanmar are on a collision course with tension in the border that has been heightened by amassing of troops in their respective sides of the border. Foreign Minister Dipu Moni, when asked by journalists about the construction of pillars for barbed wire fence along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Naikkhangchhari in Bandarban, said that the action is in accordance with international law.
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