BUDGET SESSION BEGINS AT JS WITH COVID-19 PREVENTIVE MEASU...
June 10 ,2020
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The budget session for 2020-21 fiscal year began at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban this afternoon amid the coronavirus pandemic...
COVID-19: BANGLADESH CROSSES 1,000 MARK WITH 37 NEW DEATHS
June 10 ,2020
Bangladesh recorded 37 new deaths from the deadly Covid-19 in a 24-hour span on Wednesday, taking the total number of fatalities to 1,0...
AS COVID-19 CASES SOAR IN DELHI, JAMA MASJID MAY CLOSE AGA...
June 10 ,2020
Delhi’s Jama Masjid may have to be closed again after it opened on Monday in view of the “deteriorating” situation in...
'AFGHAN ECONOMIC GROWTH TO DROP 5.5 PERCENT': WORLD BANK
June 10 ,2020
In its Global Economic Prospects for 2020 report, the World Bank has predicted a 5.5 percent decline in the Afghan economic growth rate...
US EMBASSY IN SRI LANKA INSISTS DID NOT REQUEST PROTEST TO...
June 10 ,2020
The US Embassy in Sri Lanka today insisted it did not request the authorities to block a protest scheduled to be staged near the embass...
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN, ANGELA MERKEL DISCUSS LIBYA, UKRA...
June 10 ,2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday held a telephonic conversation and expressed concern ov...
EMIRATES RESUMES FLIGHTS FROM PAKISTAN AFTER TWO MONTHS
June 10 ,2020
After a gap of over two months, Emirates has resumed scheduled services from Pakistan while ensuring implementation of measures for the...
BANGLADESH REJECTS ‘MALAYSIAN PROPOSITION’ TO TAKE IN 269...
June 10 ,2020
Bangladesh outright rejected a reported Malaysian plan to ask Dhaka to take 269 Rohingyas who managed to land on its soil, with the for...
Only 3% Pakistanis are clear-headed about coronavirus: Ips...
June 10 ,2020
A survey has revealed that only 3% of the people in Pakistan — a country that has recorded over 100,000 infections — are cl...
The ticking time bomb of Nepal's returning migrant workers
June 10 ,2020
Dev Bishwo Karma waited for hours by the side of a remote mountain road in the northwestern Nepali district of Karnali in late May, hop...
2 MORE ROHINGYAS DIE FROM CORONAVIRUS IN COX’S BAZAR
June 10 ,2020
Two more Rohingya men died from coronavirus on Monday, taking total death in the Rohingya camp to three.
One of them was 58 years old...
COVID CASES IN SOUTH ASIA ARE RISING AT THE FASTEST RATE I...
June 10 ,2020
South Asia coronavirus cases have increased at the fastest rate globally in the past week, as the region becomes one of the latest pand...
DELHI CM ARVIND KEJRIWAL TESTS NEGATIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS
June 10 ,2020
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal tested negative for coronavirus as his test reports come on Tuesday. CM went into self-isolation y...
PM MODI SPEAKS WITH PRESIDENT OF PHILIPPINES RODRIGO DUTER...
June 10 ,2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday spoke with President of Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte and discussed the steps being taken by the...
MASSIVE FIRE AT ASSAM’S BAGHJAN OIL WELL AFTER UNCONTROLLA...
June 10 ,2020
A massive fire engulfed the damaged Baghjan oil well on Tuesday which has been spewing gas uncontrollably for the last 14 days in Assam...
‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ PROTESTERS IN COLOMBO ARRESTED
June 10 ,2020
The Police arrested several people who attempted to stage a protest near the US Embassy in Colombo in violation of a court order.
The...
Libya's war: Erdogan says 'agreements' reached with Trump
June 10 ,2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said "some agreements" have been reached with his US counterpart Donald Trump that could herald...
Can the US end China’s control of the global supply chain?
June 10 ,2020
The trade war amplified calls in the US and elsewhere for reducing dependence on China for strategic goods. Now, the pandemic has polit...
Calling Winston Churchill a racist isn’t Britain’s finest...
June 10 ,2020
Wasn’t it enough for Winston Churchill to sound the alarm against Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, lead the war, singlehandedly, agains...
Turkey begins constructing modern warship for Pakistan
June 10 ,2020
The steel-cutting or the ground-breaking ceremony to begin construction of the MILGEM Ada class corvette by Turkey for Pakistan was hel...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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