By Peter Guy in South China Morning Post, Nov 20, 2017 When lofty aspirations meet the real world of competing sovereign interests the reality is that being a global superpower requires a delicate weaving of soft versus hard power with influence and dominance at multiple levels comprising military, political, economic and technological. And a few recent cracks in the plans for hegemony highlight the complicated road to infrastructure based influence faced by China. Last week,…
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By Mohammad Al-Masum Molla & Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee With the next national polls a year away, the ruling Awami League is scaling up its organisational activities while the BNP is focused on drumming up support for a non-partisan election-time government. Though the two major political camps remain rigid on their stances over the contentious issue of polls-time administration, they have started making preparations for the 11th parliamentary election, say leaders of both the parties. The…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 20, 2017 A suspect in blogger Avijit Roy murder case yesterday confessed before a Dhaka court that he was among four Ansar Al Islam operatives who did a recce of the killing spot near TSC of Dhaka University five to six days before the murder. Mozammel Hossain alias Saimon, in his confessional statement, said four more operatives of the banned militant outfit took part in the killing mission, a…