Iran’s unique “Mullahcracy” has elected an ultraconservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, head of the country’s judiciary, as the new President. He is a protégé of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who is kind of a dictator for life. The election has been dubbed as rigged and seen widely as “selection”, rather than an outcome of an open, free and fair nomination and voting process. The 60-yearold Raisi has no political experience and his career in the judiciary has been highly controversial. He played an important role in mass imprisonments of journalists, political activists and dual American-Iranian citizens. His role in a 1988 commission led to execution of thousands of political prisoners for which he came under American sanctions for alleged human rights abuses.
India-US ties: Overcoming hesitation
The ties between Delhi and Washington seemed headed for the doldrums due to a policy error on Biden’s part, but the US reversal is a good sign for both nations
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The Biden administration had earlier invoked the US Defense Production Act to ban the export of critical raw material for the production of vaccines.
The air bridge bringing in American assistance to India to combat the Chinese-origin Covid pandemic is in operation, putting an end to the uncertainty and hesitation that marked the Biden administration’s initial stand on this issue. Indians growing up in the 1960s remember the PL-480 wheat shipments for a grain-starved India were each personally authorised by President Lyndon Johnson. He was irritated by India’s stand on the Vietnam war. The American State Department’s official spokesperson’s comments that the nation’s obligation devolved first on its own citizens and this would be good for t
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Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya has said Bangladesh and India need a much more robust framework for their future economic relationship and a change in the framework is important to make that happen. The macroeconomist and
Greater trade, connectivity hold brighter future for Dhaka-Delhi ties: Doraiswami
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30th April, 2021 03:50:27
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Kumar Doraiswami has said trade will be potentially a key driver of Bangladesh-India friendship in the future with focus on value addition to products but the environment will remain an important issue to look at.
“We should look at trade and a whole new framework. I believe trade will be potentially a key driver of our friendship in the future,” he said, adding that the two countries need to be futuristic about how to deal with the next generation of issues.