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Written by Fakhrul Islam
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This is the story of the rise of a dictatorship and fall of a country. A country, which was one of the richest countries on earth 50 years ago, one of Latin America’s oldest and strongest democracies boasting a strong social safety net progressing on its promise to deliver free health care and higher education to all its citizens being a model of social mobility and a magnet for immigrants from across Latin America and Europe... ...
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India will train 1,800 civil servants from Bangladesh in ethics in administration and public policy among other areas of governance.
In this regard, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on February 08, between the Ministry of Public Administration of Government of Bangladesh and the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG), an institute under the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), India... ... Dhaka-Riyadh signs defense deal some 1800 Bangladeshi troops to be deployed to Saudi Arabia15/3/2019
Written by Bashir Ahmed
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Bangladesh-Saudi Arabia military relation has reached a new height as the two friendly countries inked a defense deal (MoU) on February 14, 2019. It seems to be a long-lasting effort to further bolster military cooperation. Some 1800 Bangladeshi troops to be deployed to Saudi Arabia for demining operations along the kingdom’s border with war-torn Yemen. But Bangladeshi troops will not engage in any combat operations, assured Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque... ...
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While tensions between Bangladesh and Myanmar are running high over Rohingya crisis, the Myanmar government again falsely depicted Bangladesh's Saint Martin's Island as part of its territory in a map in one of its websites. Dhaka has reacted sharply and lodged a strong protest officially against the ‘deliberate’ attempt. Last year, the Myanmar authorities did the same thing... ...
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Recently Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) inked a deal with Vietnam worth 160mn dollars to supply 3 Heron Type 1 unmanned aerial vehicles. While the reports have not been officially confirmed by either of the two countries or the firm in question, they have nonetheless spotlighted the deepening defense ties between the two countries which has been developing in recent years... ...
Written by Fakhrul Islam
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Indo Defence Expo & Forum is a biannual event and this year it took place from 7th to 10th November. Hosted by the Indonesian Ministry of Defence, INDO DEFENCE 2018 Expo & Forum is one of the largest in the region. The exhibition welcomed exhibitors and visitors from all around the world with over 800 companies from 44 countries, including but not limited to Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, German, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, UK and the USA... ...
Written by Fakhrul Islam
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Siemon Wezeman, senior researcher with Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's (SIPRI) arms transfers and military expenditure program while describing to Al Jazeera about the appeal of the S-400 system to the militaries who have it on their shopping list summarized it by describing it as “among the most advanced air defense systems available, on par with the best the West has to offer”... ...
Written by Major Mohammad Akther Hossain (Retd)
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INTRODUCTION
The word ‘BREXIT” is a combination of word ’British’ and word ‘Exit” where “BR” comes from word ‘British’ and the word ‘EXIT’ is added to it. It means to a hypothetical withdrawal of British from Euro zone or shorthand way of saying that the UK is leaving from the EU. However, the term Brexit may have first been used in reference to a possible UK withdrawal from the EU by Peter Wilding, in a Euractiv blog post on 15 May 2012; this is given as the first attestation in the Oxford English Dictionary.1 It is a similar way of expression of ‘Grexit’ in the past when Greek exited from Euro... ...
Written by Major Mohammad Akther Hossain (Retd)
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INTRODUCTION
Rohingya crisis, unlike any other civilian crisis, is a complex mix of religion, politics and disputed history of origin. It is an example of long and tumultuous history of world’s largest most persecuted, displaced by decades-long human rights abuses and now stateless population, who continue to face traumatic attitude from its own government... ... |
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