Ramisa Rob

Ramisa Rob is in-charge of Geopolitical Insights at The Daily Star.

Why India should address the misinformation campaign against Bangladesh

India is applying its own framework of sectarian politics to interpret and represent Bangladesh.

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Why is Elon Musk all over US politics?

Musk’s bet on Trump has already benefited him.

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Will Trump's return change Bangladesh-US ties?

Michael Kugelman discusses the implications of a second Trump presidency for Bangladesh with The Daily Star.

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The US goes red: Another round of Donald Trump

Republicans took over the Senate, retaking the chamber for the first time in four years. The House is also poised to be Republican.

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Who will win the US elections?

The conversations can go in circles till November 5.

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‘One state solution is the only long-term solution’

What we're witnessing now in the Middle East is a zero-sum game.

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Israel's attack in Lebanon: Can it lead to an all-out war?

Nasrallah and Hezbollah have thrived with an image of invincibility after confronting Israel in 2006.

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What purpose does the Indian media propaganda about Bangladesh serve?

BJP's media allies demonstrated the lengths to which they would go to mask India's domestic challengers under Modi's leadership.

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May 17, 2023
May 17, 2023

UN’s commemoration of Nakba and the West’s complicity

This moment serves as a reflection, and a reminder, of the Western complicity in perpetuating the injustice against Palestinians.

May 12, 2023
May 12, 2023

Imran Khan’s arrest has cracked open Pakistan’s compromised politics

With former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s arrest, Pakistan’s powerful military - which has long been acknowledged to “manage” the political scene from behind the curtains - now finds its supremacy in tatters.

March 31, 2023
March 31, 2023

Rahul Gandhi’s conviction: Another dent in India’s declining democracy

The same system that drags criminal cases for years starts to work on speed when power wants it to.

February 27, 2023
February 27, 2023

Heads Adani wins, tails Bangladesh loses

Gain is for Gautam Adani and loss for Bangladesh: that is how the electricity purchase deal with the Indian business tycoon may turn out to be

December 6, 2022
December 6, 2022

Match Highlights: Brazil vs South Korea — as it happened

Match highlights: Formidable Brazil steamrolled South Korea 4-1 to advance to the Quarter Finals.

November 1, 2022
November 1, 2022

End of the Bolsonaro Era: What the World Can Learn from Brazil

With a sliver of sanity realising the urgent need for damage control, Brazilians have voted out their most dangerous populist leader.

October 18, 2022
October 18, 2022

Shikho: Transforming lives, one student at a time

Tanjir Arafat Turjo, 17, hops on a bus every morning, at 6:30am from his home in Banastree, Rampura, and travels over an hour to BAF Shaheen College Kurmitola,

August 24, 2022
August 24, 2022

Trouble brewing for RMG exporters as orders fall

Apparel exporters in Bangladesh are feeling the pinch of a looming global recession, persisting higher inflation and dragging severe fallout of the Russia-Ukraine war as orders from international buyers have fallen. 

January 9, 2021
January 9, 2021

The lethal legacy of Donald Trump: American fascism

If there was any doubt that America has been encroaching fascism, it ended on Wednesday with the white nationalist coup in the US Capitol. The image of an American flag replaced with a Trump flag symbolises the “F-word” to its very core. At this point, America might as well wake up and prepare for another historically horrible political event infiltrated by Donald J. Trump, the most unhinged leader in the nation’s history.

October 19, 2020
October 19, 2020

Rage Against Rape

Many have welcomed the government’s introduction of the death penalty, misconceiving Bangladesh’s rape problem as a quick-fix punishment problem.