Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation will be seen as a loss for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), not only because Pradhan was a valued political leader who had the ability to could …
Jayanta Roy Chowdhury
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China Looms Behind India’s Nuclear and Maritime Push with Australia
by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury 5 minutes readAs Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew into Australia on Wednesday, India’s high-stakes Indo-Pacific diplomacy jigsaw started falling into place, shaped by an increasingly familiar strategic reality, that of the unspoken …
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India Launches Op Amistad as Venezuela Quake Toll Rises
by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury 4 minutes readIndia has launched ‘Operation Amistad,’ dispatching a specialized paratrooper medical contingent to earthquake-stricken Venezuela as rescuers continued a frantic search for survivors beneath collapsed buildings and the death toll from …
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Bangladesh’s Balancing Act: Delhi or Beijing?
by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury 5 minutes readThe red-carpet welcome extended to Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in the Chinese port city of Dalian Monday night carried significance beyond diplomatic protocol. China is Bangladesh’s largest trading partner, …
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BRICS Security Summit in the Shadow of the Iran War
by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury 4 minutes readAs peace talks between the US and Iran muddled through without any major breakthrough, Ghadir Nezami, Deputy Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, landed in Delhi on …
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When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stepped out of the usual routine of a choreographed diplomatic visit and decided to head first to the headquarters of the Missionaries of …
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Ganga Water Talks in Focus as Bangladesh Ratchets Up Demands, Sends Tech Team to Farakka
by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury 3 minutes readA Bangladeshi delegation flew into the city on May 20 for a meeting of the Joint Rivers Commission and a visit to the Farakka barrage where the flow of the …
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As India Sends New Envoy, Bangladesh’s Anti-India Chorus Grows Louder
by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury 4 minutes readAs a new high-powered Indian envoy prepares to take charge in Dhaka, the second political appointee to serve as India’s High Commissioner to Bangladesh, a familiar and potentially dangerous political …
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Bengal’s BJP Surge Reshapes India-Bangladesh Equation
by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury 4 minutes readThe Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) breakthrough in West Bengal has altered more than India’s domestic political map. It has also changed the strategic calculus along India’s eastern frontier, particularly in …
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Bengal Polls: Battle Over ‘Bangaliana’
by Jayanta Roy Chowdhury 5 minutes readAs Bengal celebrates ‘Poila Baisakh,’ the first day of the Bengali calendar, a vibrant expression of the culture of this riverine land, electoral battle lines are hardening over that very …