By prioritising energy security, resolving the Teesta dispute, modernising border management, and strengthening economic integration, the two countries can contribute significantly to peace and prosperity in South Asia. The manner in which India and Bangladesh manage their differences will carry implications far beyond their borders.If successful, the partnership has the potential to emerge as a major engine of regional growth and stability. The time has come for cautious resets to evolve into bold and visionary action grounded in mutual respect, trust, and shared prosperity.
Increased industrial activity in India could generate demand for raw materials, intermediate goods, and services from countries such as Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Bangladesh’s textile industry could strengthen its links with Indian manufacturing networks, while Sri Lanka may gain from expanded opportunities in tourism, logistics, and services.
What emerges from this moment is not a singular crisis but a layered one, shaped by global disruptions, local cost pressures, and structural vulnerabilities. Workers are leaving Delhi not because the city has stopped offering work, but because it has become increasingly difficult to live sustainably in the capital city while working.
It is high time South Asian countries not only pass stricter environmental regulations but also strictly enforce them, making sure that there is no factory releasing waste water without adequate treatment. Besides, upholding legally binding labour standards must also be a priority together with ensuring safety of the workplace environment.
From historical times, human beings have been surviving, in spite of several types of diseases confronting them. In such situations, medical science has developed and come out with new inventions, drugs, and cure with a view to safeguarding human beings from diseases due to the compelling need for the survival of humanity
The coronavirus pandemic and the resulting lockdowns in many countries have led to a resurgence of authoritarianism because of which the liberal democratic model again finds itself at peril from reactionary forces
For the first time the world finds itself caught in the sufferings unleashed by COVID-19. No one is safe from the virus which has impacted almost every nation on the planet
The COVID 19 lockdown recall continues. In 1990 I was sitting pondering at my misfortune of having landed the job of looking after the material requirements of a large naval dockyard when in breezed the pint-sized ex gunnery officer of a missile corvette we had commissioned together in the (former) USSR in the late seventies
Not as pretty as a flower
Amid rising cases of COVID-19 and as countries in WHO South-East Asia Region ease lockdowns in a graded manner, WHO today said careful assessment of local epidemiology should guide future actions to combat the virus
In a world when COVID-19 has brought humanity to its knees and exposed the haughty posturing of many nation-states the lesson of its interconnectedness in combating the pandemic is in stark contrast to the situation four months ago
This initiative was launched in 2015 as a collaborative effort between the Indian Council of Medical Research, Public Health Foundation of India, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and a number of other key stakeholders in India, including academic experts and institutions, government agencies and other organizations, under the aegis of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
India’s ties with the Gulf countries that have been robust in the past have come under strain owing to a number of factors
I slept a lot, but I was doing that in any case before the lockdown. I read some but it is becoming increasingly difficult to focus for long with my failing eyesight
Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared lockdown all over India around 40 days back, which caught the countrymen by surprise and led to a feeling of uncertainty
If I could swim the meadows and walk the rivers
In living memory, the worst disaster and miseries took place during the World War II. A large number of manufacturing units, airports, and seaports were destroyed and buildings demolished. Japan suffered the worst when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing the death of millions of innocent people
There are indications/allegations that COVID-19 or coronavirus was accidentally released from a Wuhan lab
Pakistan’s health crisis could explode, gravely crippling the economy and national security, if the lockdown is lifted prematurely. The whole world is grappling with the lives vs. livelihoods debate
