After Bangladesh’s independence, India played a crucial role as the new nation’s so-called “patron-protector” until the violent overthrow of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975. Although this event was a setback for India, it did not mark the end of Indian influence in Bangladesh. However, India has yet to come to terms with the abrupt […]
Bangladesh and Qatar have continuous cooperation in several bilateral aspects including labor migration (400,000 Bangladeshi workers and USD 1.3 Billion remittances), energy cooperation (15 years’ G-2-G LNG agreement), and continuous aid to the Rohingya. Bangladesh continues to buy liquefied natural gas from Qatar and Oman under long-term contracts and imports about four million tons of […]
Recently, China decided to grant duty-free access to 98 percent of Bangladeshi goods, including 383 new products, especially leather and leather-made goods. This decision will increase the number of Bangladeshi products, enjoying the duty-free facilities, to 8,930. So why has China offered such preferential treatment to Bangladesh and how can Bangladesh reap optimum benefits from […]
In the fiscal year 2022, Bangladesh is expected to be India’s fourth-largest export destination, jumping from the fifth place it is currently holding. This is definitely a landmark for the Indo-Bangladesh relations which began on 6 December 1971 with India’s recognition of Bangladesh as an independent state. Bangladesh is thus to be in the list […]
South Asian neighbors Bangladesh and Bhutan have a harmonious relationship on the strength of their mutual interest, shared history and culture. On December 6, 1971, Bhutan and India became the first countries to recognize the independence of Bangladesh. Bangladesh-Bhutan ties started to deepen from this period. These two countries can work together in the sectors […]
Bangladesh and Pakistan together make up 5 percent of the world’s population. The possibilities of market value in the case of export and import between these two countries are inevitably huge. But the trade between the two countries of 384 million people combined is now only 6-7 hundred million dollars. This is a very small […]
There’s something doleful, forlorn, perhaps even otherworldly about the spectacle of a ship run aground on the sandy banks of a waterway, marooned “like an enormous beached whale”. That was the fate that last week befell the Ever Given in the Suez Canal, a waterway, that since 1869, has linked Asia to Europe and through […]