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Neighborhood News Digest – 23 November 2023

Afghanistan Afghanistan returns 21 tankers of substandard oil to Iran – AA Afghanistan on Wednesday returned 21 tankers of what it said was substandard oil imported from Iran. In a statement, the Afghanistan National Standards Authority (ANSA), the...

Neighborhood News Digest – 07 November 2023

Afghanistan Over 15,000 Afghan families expelled from Pakistan in 6 days – The Khaama Press The de facto administration has announced that in the past six days, from the first of November until the 6th, approximately 15,270 families have returned to...

Neighborhood News Digest – 16 August 2023

Afghanistan Ministry: Low Level of Water in Helmand River 'Alarming' – Tolo News The Islamic Emirate's foreign minister expressed alarm over the Helmand River's lack of water. The ministry said in a statement that Iran's Technical Team visit to...

Neighborhood News Digest – 31 July 2023

Afghanistan 29.2 million people projected to need humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan: UNICEF – The Print In a recent report on Afghanistan, UNICEF said that over 15 million people are expected to experience food insecurity till October 2023,...

Discussion on India-Bangladesh Relations in the Face of Upcoming Elections

On 08 May 2023, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organised a talk by Prof Sreeradha Datta under the Neighbourhood Studies Centre on "India-Bangladesh Relations in the Face of Upcoming Elections". At the beginning of the talk, Lt...

Neighborhood News Digest – 06 April 2023

Afghanistan Taliban order bars Afghan women from working with UN – UN News Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued an order banning women nationals who are UN staff members from continuing to work, the UN spokesperson said on Tuesday. “Our...

Bangladesh : Leveraging its Locational Advantage

India and Bangladesh recently made history. After years of discussion and negotiations the first land and air transshipment between them finally took place towards the end of 2018. The first bonded container 4.41 tonne cargo from Bangladesh moved...

Bangladesh Elections: Growing Influence of ‘Hefazat’

The announcement on October 26th at a party forum by Sheikh Hasina that the two foremost hard-line fundamentalist groups, viz. the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) and the Hefazat-e-Islam(HeI), should be treated differently, was closely followed by the long...

Bangladesh: Demand for Elections under Caretaker Government

Election times are quintessentially interesting, more so when some of the South Asian countries are involved. The element of unpredictability and host of other varied considerations surrounding any election in the region, makes these events an...

Bangladesh: Quota Politics

What began as a small protest against quotas in government jobs in Dhaka University on 17 February 2018 soon spread to Chittagong, Khulna, Barisal, Mymensingh, Sylhet and some other parts of the country. It reached its peak on 8 April when students...

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