INDIAN OIL, BEXIMCO SIGN LPG JOINT VENTURE DEAL
June 30 ,2020
Indian Oil Corporation and Beximco LPG have signed an agreement to form a 50:50 joint venture company for LPG business in Bangladesh....
AGRICULTURE IN THE SPOTLIGHT IN COVID-HIT BANGLADESH
June 30 ,2020
Although the coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh has halted almost all economic activities and devastated the supply chain, the agricult...
COVID-19: BANGLADESH RECORDS THE HIGHEST EVER 64 DEATHS IN...
June 30 ,2020
Bangladesh has recorded the highest ever 64 new deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to in the country to 1,...
WHO SAYS PANDEMIC 'NOT EVEN CLOSE' TO OVER
June 30 ,2020
The coronavirus pandemic is "not even close to being over", the WHO warned Monday, as the global death toll passed half a million and c...
LOCUST SWARMS SPARE DELHI BUT THREATEN RS 40,000-CRORE SUG...
June 30 ,2020
Locust swarms that wreaked havoc in farmland and cities like Rewari, Jhajjar and Gurugram in Haryana over the weekend have entered area...
COVAXIN -INDIA’S FIRST COVID-19 VACCINE BY BHARAT BIOTECH...
June 30 ,2020
The country’s ‘first’ indigenous COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN, developed by city-based Bharat Biotech in collaboration wi...
INDIA STOPS SIKHS FROM VISITING KARTARPUR GURDWARA
June 30 ,2020
Pakistan on Monday reopened Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, more than three months after its closure due to the coronavirus pandemi...
EU INSISTS SRI LANKA NOT BLACKLISTED FROM VISA LIST
June 30 ,2020
The European Union (EU) today insisted that Sri Lanka has not been blacklisted despite not being considered among countries approved vi...
AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF BANGLADESHIS RISES TO 72.6
June 30 ,2020
The average life expectancy of the people of Bangladesh has risen to 72.6 years in 2019, as compared to 72.3 years in 2018, according t...
PSX attack
June 30 ,2020
After a considerable lull, the spectre of urban terrorism returned with full force to Karachi on Monday morning, as Baloch separatist m...
CHINA’S MILITARY BECOMES WORLD’S FIRST TO USE EXPERIMENTAL...
June 30 ,2020
China has approved military use of an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by the People’s Liberation Army and a Chinese ph...
CHINA PASSES HONG KONG SECURITY LAW, DEEPENING FEARS FOR F...
June 30 ,2020
China's parliament has passed controversial national security legislation for Hong Kong that Beijing says is necessary to deal with iss...
After India’s skirmish with China, is Pakistan next?
June 30 ,2020
The worst border skirmish between India and China in the Himalayas in decades has abated for now, but the potential for crisis still lo...
Pakistan to send back 38 Indian High Commission officials
June 30 ,2020
Thirty-eight of the total 76 Indian High Commission officials in Islamabad will return to New Delhi on Tuesday- a move Pakistan has mad...
INDIA SHOULD GIVE MORE MARKET ACCESS TO BANGLADESHI GOODS:...
June 30 ,2020
Bangladesh wants more raw materials from India to increase production for both countries during the coronavirus pandemic.
The interdep...
Covid-19: Pakistan’s cyber-security needs urgent attention
June 30 ,2020
The Covid-19 pandemic still remains the most dominant factor affecting the global scenario. Neither the superpowers nor the developing...
FOUR TERRORISTS AMONG EIGHT GUNNED DOWN IN ATTACK ON PAKIS...
June 30 ,2020
Gunmen attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in on Monday martyring three guards and a policeman before security forces killed...
US SECRETARY OF STATE TELEPHONES SRI LANKAN FOREIGN MINIST...
June 30 ,2020
The United States of America (US) today reaffirmed its partnership with the people of Sri Lanka and commitment to supporting the countr...
RAMDEV’S PATANJALI SHOULDN’T SELL ITS MEDICINES AS COVID C...
June 30 ,2020
A 17-member taskforce, formed to investigate the efficacy of yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s ‘Covid cure’ kit, has suggested...
TWIN-JET RAFALE COMBAT AIRCRAFT LIKELY TO BE DELIVERED BY...
June 30 ,2020
The twin-jet Rafale combat aircraft would be delivered to the Indian Air Force by July end, top defence officials said on Monday.
The...
China to put visa restrictions on US individuals over Hong...
June 30 ,2020
China has announced visa restrictions on US individuals who “behave egregiously” in relation to Hong Kong affairs.
The mov...
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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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The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
