Ramisa Rob is Editor of Geopolitical Insights at The Daily Star.
But whether the current course of events will follow the course of 2020, cannot be said with certainty.
The confusion surrounding the scenarios ahead also arises from the US handling of the current conflict, which has been discordant.
Wieger Wielinga, managing director of Omni Bridgeway, speaks with The Daily Star breaking down the concept of litigation funding.
Aid to Rakhine would help stabilise the state and pave the way for Rohingya repatriation.
It is too early, and rather preliminary, to conclude that India-Pakistan tensions have escalated to a “war.”
India and Pakistan are in the middle of their biggest crises in years.
Mustafizur Rahman, distinguished fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), speaks to Ramisa Rob of The Daily Star about how Bangladesh can navigate the current challenges.
For Trump, it’s always, “What’s in it for me?”
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.
The same system that drags criminal cases for years starts to work on speed when power wants it to.
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
Match highlights: Formidable Brazil steamrolled South Korea 4-1 to advance to the Quarter Finals.
With a sliver of sanity realising the urgent need for damage control, Brazilians have voted out their most dangerous populist leader.
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,
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.
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.
Many have welcomed the government’s introduction of the death penalty, misconceiving Bangladesh’s rape problem as a quick-fix punishment problem.
When she first heard about the infamous extradition bill on March 31 this year, Adrienne, a 24-year-old Hong Kong national, had lost hope.