INDIA, CHINA TOP MILITARY-LEVEL TALKS ON SATURDAY AMID BOR...
June 3 ,2020
India and China will hold military-level talks in Ladakh on Saturday, June 6, amid the border standoff between the militaries of the tw...
US: FERGUSON, MISSOURI ELECTS FIRST BLACK MAYOR
June 3 ,2020
Voters in Ferguson, Missouri - a United States city thrust into the international spotlight six years ago by a fatal police shooting of...
CHIEF JUSTICE OF BANGLADESH HOSPITALISED WITH RESPIRATORY...
June 3 ,2020
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has been admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) with respiratory problem.
Confirming the matte...
COVID-19: BANGLADESH REPORTS 37 NEW DEATHS, 2,695 CASES IN...
June 3 ,2020
Bangladesh has reported 37 new deaths and 2,695 fresh cases in the last 24 hours.
With the latest figure, the number of total confirme...
MINISTER DIES OF CORONAVIRUS IN PAKISTAN’S SINDH PROVINCE;...
June 3 ,2020
Minister for Human Settlement of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province Ghulam Murtaza Baloch died of COVID-19 in provincial capital...
CYCLONE NISARGA 95 KM FROM ALIBAUG NEAR MUMBAI, 120 KMPH W...
June 3 ,2020
Tropical storm Nisarga, which intensified into a "severe cyclonic storm" this morning, is headed towards the Maharashtra and Gujarat co...
SRI LANKA ELECTION COMMISSION TO MEET AND DISCUSS POLLS RE...
June 3 ,2020
The National Election Commission is set to convene tomorrow (03) to discuss the Parliamentary election.
The meeting comes, following t...
PERILS FOR PENTAGON AS TRUMP THREATENS TO MILITARISE RESPO...
June 3 ,2020
"Battlespace" was the word defense secretary Mark Esper used to describe protest sites in the United States. The top US general reinfor...
CYCLONE NISARGA NEARS MAHARASHTRA COAST, IAF, NAVY ON ALER...
June 3 ,2020
Cyclone Nisarga is approaching the north coast of Maharashtra and is expected to make a landfall in Alibag in Raigarh district as a sev...
Lt Generals to lead India-China military talks on Ladakh
June 3 ,2020
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Stepping up efforts to de-escalate the situation along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, India and...
UK MPs, activists raise voice against rights abuses in Kas...
June 3 ,2020
More than 15 British lawmakers, human rights lawyers from Kuwait and Bahrain raised their voices against grave human rights violations...
INDIA APPROVES EMERGENCY USE OF REMDESIVIR TO TREAT COVID-...
June 3 ,2020
India's government said on Tuesday it has approved Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral drug remdesivir for emergency use for five doses in...
DR KAMAL: GOVT HAS FAILED TO CONTAIN COVID-19 OUTBREAK
June 3 ,2020
Gono Forum President Dr Kamal Hossain on Tuesday said that Covid-19 is seriously affecting public life as the government has failed to...
US ENVOY TO SRI LANKA ASSERTS ACCOUNTABILITY A MUST OVER F...
June 3 ,2020
The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Alaina B. Teplitz says accountability is a must over the killing of George Floyd.
She tweeted saying th...
WHO WARNS OF HIGHER BACTERIAL RESISTANCE DUE TO INCREASED...
June 3 ,2020
Increased antibiotics use in combating the COVID-19 pandemic will strengthen bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths du...
AFGHANISTAN PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI, MIKE POMPEO DISCUSS PE...
June 3 ,2020
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani spoke with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo via video conference and discussed the Afghan peace process,...
2 JEM TERRORISTS KILLED IN ENCOUNTER
June 3 ,2020
Two terrorists of Pakistan sponsored Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) were on Tuesday killed in an encounter with security forces in the Soyimuh...
Trump’s China policy at a cul-de-sac
June 3 ,2020
This past week has been a catastrophic seven days that shook America. Some of the debris may have inevitably fallen on President Donald...
We may be heading towards a post-dollar world
June 3 ,2020
Unfettered globalisation is over. That is not a controversial statement at this point for obvious reasons, from the post-Covid-19 retre...
Donald Trump threatens to deploy army as teargas fired so...
June 3 ,2020
Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the US military to quell civil unrest – even as teargas was fired against nearby peaceful p...
A terrorist attack sparks the plot of Megha Majumdar’s pow...
June 3 ,2020
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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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