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A lab technician wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) takes reagent bottles to perform vaccine tests. (AFP)

Bangladesh allows late-stage trial of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine

Sinovac has been looking for volunteers outside of China as the number of coronavirus cases there has dwindled

20 July 2020 5:57 PM IST

Some of the big names include companies like Beacon Pharmaceuticals, Beximco Pharmaceuticals, Square Pharmaceuticals, Summit Power, Renata Ltd, Pran-RFL, bKash and the Meghna Group of Industries. (Representational Image/ AP)

Indranil Banerjie | Why Bangladesh didn't turn into a failed state

First, of course, it managed to break free from a colonial relationship with its western and more powerful half, West...

17 Dec 2021 2:39 AM IST

Whether people and voters will see through the BJPs cynical use of diplomacy for electoral gain or lap it up as realpolitik will be known only on May 2. (Photo: AFP)

K.C. Singh | National interests hurt if politics, diplomacy mixed

India-Bangladesh relations get impacted by the BJP's divisive and majoritarian politics, over illegal immigrants and...

27 March 2021 4:25 AM IST

Anita Katyal | Personality cult infiltrates Left; leaked survey'...

While Pinarayi Vijayan is on a roll, the Congress-led UDF is fighting hard to wrest the state from its chief political...

4 April 2021 4:07 AM IST

United Airlines is preparing to furlough 16,370 workers when federal aid expires on October 1. (AFP Photo)

COVID-19: Oman suspends flights from 24 countries, including India,...

The decision was taken as part of the country's measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic

8 July 2021 12:57 PM IST

Dark clouds hover in the sky as a fisherman folds his fishing net, ahead of the landfall of Cyclone Sitrang, in South 24 Parganas district. (PTI Photo)(

Cyclone Sitrang hits Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of people...

At least five people had been killed in the districts of Barguna, Narail, Sirajganj and the island district of Bhola

25 Oct 2022 7:30 AM IST

In March 2020, the year before Covid-19, merchandise exports were $314 billion. Meaning there was no growth in merchandise exports in six years. (Representational Image)

Aakar Patel | The rise & fall of India's exports: Can we take it up to...

Unless India does something proactively that affects our exports positively, trade growth will decline as it has with...

11 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

Indian flags (Representational Image)

Mohan Guruswamy | Only small states will be able to save the republic

Demand for new administrative units will be a continuous one, one that seeks to bring distant provincial govts in remote...

11 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

The peak point of growth and prosperity is quite far off, so the short and medium-term prospects of growth and prosperity are nothing but bright. (Representational Image)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Towards a more affluent India: Future not...

Economic growth is not an automated elevator. There will be periodic glitches and we need policy repairmen to keep it...

4 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

Aakar Patel | Can the whole of South Asia work as one to develop...

We have not opened ourselves to each other and returned to the sort of geography and economy that we had before 1947

20 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of The Inheritors by Nadeem Zaman. (Photo by arrangement)

Rupa Gulab | Bring on the intrigue amid Dhaka high life

Review of 'The Inheritors' by Nadeem Zaman.

19 March 2023 12:45 AM IST