Dispite the immense achievements of the CWC, the threat from terrorist groups or violent non-state actors and their sympathisers using toxic or incapacitating chemicals as weapons remains. The authors of this joint NGO statement note that the challenges posed by national and transnational terrorist groups and the covert state actions sponsoring them remain unchanged.

China is expected to conduct around 1000 experiments in the lifetime of this space station. There would be a focus on various subjects, from studying how plants adapt in space to how fluids behave in microgravity. China is progressing in a very systematic fashion towards deciding the scientific agenda for the space station.

This article examines Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’s (AQIS) extremist propaganda in Bangladesh and how this South Asian affiliate of the Transnational Jihadist group- Al Qaeda- has dominated the extremist narrative against Bangladesh. 

India, Bangladesh relations have emerged as a role model of the bilateral relationship in the context of India's relations with its neighbours. The present bilateral status is precisely in tandem with the vision of 'Bangabandhu' Mujibur Rehman held 50 years back when he spoke of enduring and eternal ties between the two countries (otut ar okhoy) in his first visit to Calcutta in February 1972 after taking oath as the Prime Minister of newly liberated Bangladesh.