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New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) The Indian Intelligence agencies are keeping a close watch on the resurgence of an Al-Qaeda affiliate, the Ansar al-Islam (AAI). This outfit was founded in 2021 in Iraq, and it primarily fought against the secular Kurdish factions and the US-led coalition. The original Iraqi faction has now dispersed, but its wing in Bangladesh, known as the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), is showing signs of resurgence. An Intelligence Bureau official said that the ABT remains largely non…

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s return to electoral politics has done little to settle the deeper questions surrounding its democratic future. The February 12 victory of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) may have produced a government, but it has not resolved the growing crisis of political exclusion, institutional imbalance, and the steady contraction of democratic space. At the center of this concern lies the exclusion of major political actors from the democratic process. The Awami League, one of …