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Can Quad Survive?
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, an informal strategic alliance between India, the United States, Japan and Australia, has gained a fresh lease of life after its revival…
Analysis
A Prime Minister Unfit for A Pandemic
Parallel to Modi's leadership failures is the pressure Indians are under to choose between quackery and medical science The widely respected publication The Lancet in a…
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Public Health Institutions Require More Policy Support
The covid-19 pandemic has opened our eyes to the immensely vulnerable state of our public health sector. Since covid-19 is a uniquely contagious disease, managing testing…
Media coverage item
Webinar on ‘Geopolitics of the Pandemic- The Bangladesh Scene’ held
The world sees polarization due to the Covid-19 pandemic, where the efficacy of organisations like the United Nations fails, DU Professor Amena Mohsin said Dr Ali…
Media coverage item
Authoritarianism on rise amid Covid-19: webinar
Authoritarian form of governance is on rise in Bangladesh amid the Covid crisis and the trend may continue through the use of the Digital Security Act,…
Analysis
Digital Discussion on Geopolitics of the Pandemic: The Bangladesh Scene
“This is the kind of situation that Bangladesh is in with respect to the geopilitical situation and what will be the decision, as I said unfortunately…
Webinar
Webinar on Geopolitics of the Pandemic The Bangladesh Scene
COVID-19, the pandemic and its vicious outcome is taking lives every day. This dangerous virus has not only brought disastrous consequences to the health sector of…
Analysis
The Once and Future Afghanistan
Afghanistan has been a presence in my life for decades. As a high school student at a Department of Defense school in Turkey, I read James…
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India: Election Loss in West Bengal May be Start of a Backlash Against Modi’s Handling of COVID Crisis
In what is widely being interpreted as a popular verdict on Narendra Modi’s handling of the COVID crisis in India, voters in West Bengal have returned…
Analysis
COVID Crisis in India: Why Its Public Health Strategy Failed
Most countries have used what’s known as the Swiss cheese model in planning their COVID response. In this risk-management model, each preventative measure is represented by…
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Israel is Trying Hard to Erase Jerusalem’s Palestinians
And it has made colonial violence a permanent feature of Palestinian lives in the holy city. For us Jerusalemites, it is frankly nauseating to hear commentators…