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  A president in denial

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on November 18, 2020

  US vice-president Joe Biden has won the US presidential election resoundingly with 306 electoral and 78.6 million popular votes. President Donald Trump received 232 electoral...

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  Indian foreign secretary’s hasty visit misfires

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on August 23, 2020

  THE Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s hastily arranged and sudden visit to Dhaka is shrouded in mystery. The centrepiece of the visit was his...

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  Hindutva spurs anti-Bangladesh rhetoric in India

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on February 23, 2020

  THE Indian Union’s state minister for home affairs Kissan Reddy has recently said that a half of Bangladesh would migrate to India if Indian citizenship...

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  Memories of Magura 1994

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on February 11, 2020

  THE by-election to the Magura 2 parliamentary seat was held in 1994 after the incumbent member of parliament had died. It was a seminal point...

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  City elections on predictable path

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on January 30, 2020

  A recent television talk-show where the two mayoral candidates of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party for the forthcoming Dhaka city corporation elections were interviewed was interesting...

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  Indira Gandhi’s role in Bangladesh liberation war

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on January 22, 2020

  INDIRA Gandhi’s role and India’s in the liberation war of Bangladesh and its emergence as an independent and sovereign country have been talked about in...

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  India partition better or worse for Muslims?

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on January 12, 2020

  INDIA was on course to becoming a net secular state led by Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress in 1947. Today, it has become...

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  The two-nation theory and the present-day India

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on December 25, 2019

  THE two-nation theory, originally propagated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Mahasabha and later adopted by the Muslim League created Pakistan in 1947 based...

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  Dhaka’s cricket diplomacy stillborn

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on December 01, 2019

  SHEIKH Hasina has a bilateral meeting with her Indian counterpart at every available opportunity in India or abroad since she assumed office in January 2009....

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  India’s secular credentials in doubt

  M Serajul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on November 25, 2019

  MAHATMA Gandhi, the apostle of non-violence, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister and their colleagues in the Congress placed their implicit faith primarily in...