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Nov 20, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Ramisa Rob
If there's one man who's been everywhere in the news since Donald Trump won the election, it's the business tycoon Elon Musk with a MAGA hat on his head, wearing the ecstatic smile of a man who just won his way into ultimate power. JD Vance, the actual vice president-elect, appears not nearly as close to Trump as Musk. As Trump watched himself win the elections in Mar-a-Lago, it was Musk sitting at his arm's length.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Ramisa Rob |Michael Kugelman
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's resounding victory in the US election 2024, Michael Kugelman, the director of South Asia Institute in the Wilson Center, speaks to Ramisa Rob of The Daily Star, about the implications for Bangladesh at large. What does Trump's victory, and the change in leadership in the US, mean for Bangladesh—in the short-term and long-term?
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Ramisa Rob
The night started off, as it does, with red states. But unlike 2020, there was no confusion. The percentage of votes counted quickly began to show a clear picture: Donald Trump's victory. Trump won the presidency through the electoral system and the popular vote, which has not happened in the past two decades. He overperformed in several states, following the trends of the previous two elections that polls underestimated his voters.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Ramisa Rob
The US has fundamentally shifted to the far-right, and that is the reality. The night started off, as it does, with red states. But unlike 2020, there was no confusion. The percentage of votes counted quickly began to show a clear picture: Donald Trump's victory. Trump won the presidency through the electoral system and the popular vote, which has not happened for any Republican candidate in the past two decades.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Ramisa Rob
With just a week to go, predictions of "who will win" the knife-edge US presidential elections has become table talk of sorts. Among US nationals, there's a strange aura of burn-out anxiety; a new report by the American Psychological Association (APA) showed that 7 out of 10 adult US citizens feel stressed about the upcoming elections.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Ramisa Rob
For months, Israel and Lebanon—particularly Hezbollah, Iran's powerful proxy in the nation—have been engaging in tit-for-tat attacks. At some points, such as when Hezbollah's senior commander Fuad Shukr was killed in Beirut in late July, and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran around the same time, it seemed as if a shadow war was on the brink of erupting into an expanded conflict.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Mahadev Ghosh |Ramisa Rob |Anu Muhammad |ABHISH K BOSE
by Mahadev Ghosh and Ramisa RobIn his Independence Day speech, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised that 1.4 billion Indians are worried about the safety of Hindu minorities in post-Hasina Bangladesh, in New Delhi, on August 15, 2024. Since the student-led mass uprising toppled Sheikh Hasina’s regime in Bangladesh on August 5, a new reality dawned on the horizon for the nation grappling with uncertainty.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Ramisa Rob |Mahadev Ghosh
Hindus in Bangladesh themselves called on the Indian media to display facts. Since the student-led mass uprising toppled Sheikh Hasina's regime in Bangladesh on August 5, a new reality dawned on the horizon for the nation grappling with uncertainty. But in neighbouring India's media, an alternate reality of what was not seen on the streets of Bangladesh emerged. An incessant flow of misinformation and largely disinformation flooded social media.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Ramisa Rob |Jayadeva Uyangoda
As we approach a month of Sheikh Hasina's fall in Bangladesh, Dr Jayadeva Uyangoda, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka, speaks to Ramisa Rob of The Daily Star regarding the parallels with Sri Lanka's democratic movement in 2022, and the lessons to learn for Bangladesh. Do you see any similarities between the ouster of the Rajapaksa family in Sri Lanka and the ouster of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh? In my view, there are four key ones.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
thedailystar.net | Ramisa Rob
The words "Palestine" and "Gaza" were missing a bit too much during the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which nominated the first female Black Democratic presidential nominee in history, in Chicago—the city with the largest population of Palestinian Americans in the United States. Widely popular former First Lady Michelle Obama said, "Hope is making a comeback," since Biden passed the torch to Kamala Harris.
