BUSINESS
Will Mamata Banerjee’s attempts to woo investors succeed like her politics?
The Bengal CM’s overseas trip aims to give a fillip to the state’s MSME sector and boost job creation. Anticipating early Lok Sabha polls, Banerjee is focussed on the optics, firing up Bengali sentiments on the political front and projecting earnestness in welcoming foreign investment on the economic front
WORLD
Bangladesh: India owes microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus too much to watch his persecution silently
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina will be in India to attend the G20 summit and it is an opportunity for us to join many notable global thought leaders in urging a halt to the harassment of Yunus, who helped or inspired so many of India’s microfinance institutions take the first steps on the long road to success
BUSINESS
Bangladesh: Why is ‘ally’ US undermining India in its backyard?
India’s bet on Sheikh Hasina has served it well as the avowedly pro-India Bangladesh politician has kept the anti-India opposition party BNP and the Islamist party with Pakistan links Jamaat on a tight leash. With the US threatening more sanctions against Hasina’s colleagues hurting free and fair elections, the opposition is reviving
