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KOLKATA: When it comes to marine fishing, India seems to be well ahead of Bangladesh in terms of production and export earnings. Bangladesh authorities are looking for ways to improve and upgrade their coastal fishing — it has declined by nearly 80% during the last seven years!

LONDON: The term “fascism” has often been bandied around irresponsibly, used to describe any form of right-wing authoritarianism and sometimes any opponent at all. Whether today’s far right can be accurately described as fascist has been debated at length in international socialist circles. But there are mounting reasons to say so.

The five day annual session of World Economic Forum at Davos ended on January 23 witnessing virtual collapse of the transatlantic alliance at the hands of Donald Trump and both German Chancellor Frederich Merz and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez saying that old order has gone, there is a need for a new order. But overcoming the bitter fight between the USA and the European nations at the meet, there were some concrete discussions at different panels showing how uncertain and complex is the present geopolitics.

NEW YORK: President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew the invitation to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to be on the Board of Peace for Gaza sheerly to snub him for mocking him for saying “if you are not at the table”, “you are on the menu”.

With the final list of eligible candidates announced on January 21 just three weeks before the crucial elections on February 12 in Bangladesh, the campaign has started in full swing. The trends so far give all the elements of a total polarization between the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Jamaat-e-Islami each heading an alliance of a number of small political parties which on its own strength would not make any impact in the polls.

The colonial aggression of abducting Nicholas Maduro, the head of a foreign sovereign country is celebrated by the US president as an efficient military operation conducted to restore democracy and freedom in Venezuela. Maduro has to be portrayed as the head of a drug cartel so that US intervention can be justified as a matter of national security although Venezuela has a nominal share in cocaine trade and hardly produces fentanyl. On the other hand, all right-wing forces sponsored by the US in Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, Argentina, Ecuador are very much linked to global drug networks.

LONDON: Sir Keir Starmer could face another Labour rebellion after 100 MPs signed a letter calling for a Waspi U-turn. The letter called on ministers to “reach the right decision” for 1950s-born women and give an update on plans by March 2 “at the latest.” Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaigners sent the letter signed by 15 Labour backbenchers today.

NEW YOTK: When President Donald Trump stood before the assembled worthies of global capitalism in Davos last week to discuss his designs on Greenland, he offered a masterclass in the very behaviour America has spent decades condemning. The irony was apparently lost on no one but the speaker himself.

LONDON: Europe’s supine, corrupted and democratically exhausted bourgeoisie is finally starting to break from Donald Trump, at least superficially. Having effectively endorsed the aggression against Venezuela, and earlier capitulated entirely to the White House demagogue on trade, it is now drawing a line of sorts around Greenland, which the US President approaches like – well, like a New York real estate mobster coveting a prime site.

2025 was the year of the maverick U.S. President Donald Trump. The developments during the year beginning January 20 evolved around Trump. He was the key decision-maker, irrespective of what other countries leaders felt. He cared little for the United Nations, WTO, WHO and all other multilateral bodies. He openly said ‘I am the law”.