THE recently concluded Gaza peace summit, sponsored by US president Donald J Trump before a US-Israel-imposed 20-point Gaza peace plan championed by the fragile peace initiative, was signed by the United States, Egypt, Qatar and T眉rkiye, with a couple of other world leaders acting as 鈥榗heerleaders.鈥� This presents a look of an international consensus. However, this...
THE July 7, 2025, letter from President Donald J Trump to Dr Muhammad Yunus, the chief advisor to the government of Bangladesh, reads like a familiar echo of an old, misguided economic playbook. In it, the US warns of a 35 per cent tariff on all Bangladeshi goods entering American markets, citing long-standing trade deficits and the need for reciprocal trade...
Businesses of the country are eagerly waiting for the July 3-meeting between representatives of the Bangladesh government and the United States Trade Representative in Washington, DC regarding reciprocal 37 per cent tariff imposed by Donald J Trump administration on April 2...
US PRESIDENT Donald J Trump and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi met at the Oval Office of the White House on February 13. They ended the meeting with a joint press conference. The exchange of verbal pageantry...
PRESIDENT Donald J Trump likes teasing out the unmentionable, and the Israel-Palestinian situation was hardly going to be any different. With a touch of horror and the grotesque, he offered a solution to the issue of what would happen to Gaza at the conclusion of hostilities. In a White House press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he...
