MALAYSIA DETAINS 269 ROHINGYAS; BODY FOUND IN DAMAGED BOAT
June 9 ,2020
Malaysian authorities detained 269 Rohingya refugees and found a body on board a suspected smuggling boat they said had been intentiona...
DHAKA UNIVERSITY RANKS 1794TH AMONG WORLD’S 2000 UNIVERSIT...
June 9 ,2020
The University of Dhaka has ranked 1794th among world’s 2,000 universities, according to Center for World University Rankings (CW...
COVID-19: RECORD 45 DEATHS AND 3171 FRESH CASES IN BANGLAD...
June 9 ,2020
Bangladesh has recorded the highest single day Covid-19 deaths along with cases as 45 more people have died of the deadly disease while...
GHANI MEETS PAKISTAN’S CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF IN KABUL
June 9 ,2020
President Ashraf Ghani met with Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, in Kabul on Tuesday, the Pakistan embassy...
WE CAN’T ACCEPT ANY MORE ROHINGYA REFUGEES, SAYS SENIOR M...
June 9 ,2020
The government said today it will not allow Rohingya refugees, especially those who fled from Cox Bazar, to remain in the country.
Cox...
RECORD 9,987 CORONAVIRUS CASES, 331 DEATHS IN 24 HRS; INDI...
June 9 ,2020
The coronavirus cases in India reached 2,66,598 on Tuesday out of which 1,29,917 are active cases and 1,29,214 cases have been recovere...
AMNESTY ACCUSES SRI LANKA OF ARBITRARILY TARGETING MUSLIM...
June 9 ,2020
With the COVID-19 pandemic gripping the world, Amnesty International says Sri Lanka appears to have arbitrarily targeted the Muslim com...
WORLD BANK FORECASTS ONLY 1.6% GDP GROWTH FOR BANGLADESH
June 9 ,2020
The World Bank (WB) released a hard-hitting forecast on Monday (June 8) in its June 2020 Global Economic Prospects, that projected Bang...
PAKISTAN COVID-19 PEAK BY JULY END OR AUGUST: PM IMRAN KHA...
June 9 ,2020
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases will continue to rise in the country, an...
Bhutan parliament endorses Budget Appropriation Bill 2020-...
June 9 ,2020
The National Assembly of Bhutan on Monday endorsed the Budget Appropriation Bill 2020-21 amounting to almost Nu 74B with the curr...
A gas well blowout in Assam sparks a natural disaster
June 9 ,2020
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to soar in India, India’s northeastern state of Assam is faced with the challenge of plug...
Turkey-trained Afghan female cop gets senior post
June 9 ,2020
In a first, a Turkish-trained Afghan female police officer has taken charge at anti-crime branch in Afghanistan's remote Khost province...
COVID-19 drugs from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh: Remdesivi...
June 9 ,2020
An arsenal of existing antivirals are being brought to bear against SARS-CoV-2. Most of them are manufactured in South Asia — pri...
LADAKH MP VISITS FORWARD AREAS IN EASTERN SECTOR
June 9 ,2020
Amidst the ongoing India—China standoff at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, the member of Parliament Jamyang Tsering N...
CRISIS OF OXYGEN CYLINDERS: DEMAND SKY HIGH, PRICES TOO IN...
June 9 ,2020
Faruk Mia came to Dhaka on Saturday, all the way from Narsingdi, to buy an oxygen cylinder for his 65-year-old ailing father as it coul...
INDIAN ECONOMY TO SHRINK BY 3.2% IN FISCAL YEAR 2020-21: W...
June 9 ,2020
India’s economy will shrink by 3.2 per cent in the current fiscal, the World Bank said on Monday as it joined a chorus of interna...
AFGHAN PEACE TALKS LIKELY TO BEGIN SOON AFTER US TOP ENVOY...
June 9 ,2020
Talks to end the 18-year-old conflict in Afghanistan may begin this month, sources said on Monday, a day after the US special envoy vis...
AJK PRESIDENT CALLS FOR DECLARING RSS A TERRORIST GROUP
June 9 ,2020
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan has called upon the global community to initiate “boycott, divestment a...
US DONATES SAFETY EQUIPMENT FOR SRI LANKA’S FRONTLINE RESP...
June 9 ,2020
The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives Alaina B. Teplitz handed over a donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other s...
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