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BIMSTEC and its slight ineffectiveness Fourth BIMESTEC summit has come to end and its press release focus was more on connectivity unlike the media reports which reiterates on terrorism. Out of 16 sector specific commitments made, only terrorism has been highlighted in the news. Without being driven to wards single perspective instinct as opined by late Hans Rosling, analysis should be on over all commitments made by the member states and we shall do it. Realizing those commitments would take an active-executive department established on multi-lateral level. It should comprise academicians, bureaucrats, technical assistance and other specialists from all the member states. This will bring diversity and overall requirements of member states into the policies which will be drafted. It is vivid in the press release that without any exception, there is need for creation of separate department level interaction and creation of sector specific working secretariat to achieve the ...

When Dictator meets Democrat -Vatsala Mishra The recent meeting in Singapore has made the entire world awestruck. The reactions coming out straight from the White House are not normal. In his term, nobody has seen Trump falling head over heels for any leader. The kind of remarks Trump made post-meeting is not the world saw coming up. So what shall we assume? Did Trump really got hoodwinked or is he just being pretentious? If we talk about the deal, one could easily see that Trump did not make any extraordinary attempts to de- nuclearize North Korea. Instead, North Korea made the best use of the opportunity and not only convinced U.S to provide securitization, but also made him stop the military exercises with South Korea. Choson Simbo, North Korea’s propaganda voice, as published in Tokyo has said that one of the essential condition of denuclearization is termination of American strategic commitments which includes provision of nuclear umbrella to Republic of Korea, and...