Asia

In popular parlance, the US President Joe Biden is already known as ‘Genocide Biden’ – a title that unmistakably highlights the role Biden has been playing, since October 2023, in facilitating Israel’s brutal war on Gaza. With Biden now all set to not contest in the upcoming presidential elections in the US in November this year, the question of whether the new president – Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump – bring any change to the US policy towards Israel?

The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas is not finding a political solution, but is entering a new round of tension that threatens to turn into a major regional conflict. What follows Recep Erdoğan’s statement on the possibility of Turkey entering the Palestinian conflict and the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran?

Bangladesh’s economic plight and stagnant employment growth in the private sector led to widespread dissatisfaction among the citizens. Almost 32 million Bengali citizens out of the total population of 170 million are jobless or uneducated. Dollar reserves in the country are shrinking, while inflation hovers at around 10 percent per annum. The Bangladeshi High Court’s decision in June to reinstate the quota system for government jobs further ignited the situation.