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  CAN SHEIKH HASINA MAKE A COMEBACK? Taking power in August, Muhammad Yunus, head of the interim government and Nobel Prize winner, told Bangladeshi people in a televised speech that the aim of reforms would be to introduce an accountable political system against corruption, plunder, and genocide. If we lose this opportunity now, we will lose as a nation.  When we analyze the above truthfully, we will find that the situation in Bangladesh has not improved yet. Yunus accepts that there have been attacks on minority Hindus in Bangladesh, but he does not consider its basis to be communal. Whatever it may be, the current situation in Bangladesh is not good and it seems Yunus has failed to convince 170 million people that the country can survive without the family of its founder. Secularism and the fight against Islamic fundamentalists are the most important issues in Bangladesh politics, and the Yunus government seems to be failing on these issues. The latest example is the dissolutio
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  CAN BRICKS BRING A SEA CHANGE IN GLOBAL POLITICS?                                                   Courtesy: PIB  Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted a three-day annual summit of the BRICKS group, an alliance of emerging economies in the southwestern Russian city of Kazan from October 22-24. Kazan is also called the third capital of Russia due to its beautiful Kremlin and mosque, and it is a major tourist attraction. This alliance aims to challenge the economic and political monopoly of the West and to disillusion with Western-led institutions of global governance in the matter of economy. This annual summit was attended by more than 20 world leaders including India, China, and Iran. This time, US partners like Egypt also joined. NATO ally Turkey is also in the race to join BRICS. Others attending the event included Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the leaders of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Indonesia, and Mexico. BR
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  SCO SUMMIT IS EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN INDIA-PAK RELATIONS                                        Sources: By Kremlin.ru, CC    BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150028667 Recently, S. Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister of India attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Council of Heads of Government summit in Islamabad, Pakistan. FM Jaishankar was welcomed by Shahbaz Sharif at the PM's residence. Jaishankar and Sharif shook hands and also had a brief conversation. During this summit, informal talks were held with Pakistan's PM and the Indian Foreign Minister. The atmosphere of the talks was said to have been more positive than that of previous meetings. This was the first visit of a top Indian minister to its neighboring country in almost a decade. The last Indian foreign minister to visit Pakistan was Sushma Swaraj. She went to Islamabad to participate in the 'Heart of Asia' conference on Afghanistan on 8-9 December 2015. The SCO su
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