12 COUNTRIES OFFERED TO HOST INTRA-AFGHAN TALKS: ATMAR
July 17 ,2020
Acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar at a press conference on Thursday said that 12 countries want to host intra-Afghan talks,...
BANGLADESH, JAPAN SIGN EXCHANGE NOTE, GRANTS AGREEMENT
July 17 ,2020
Bangladesh and Japan have signed the exchange of notes and grant agreements on the project for Human Resource Development Scholarship (...
COVID-19: 895 BANGLADESHIS DIE IN SIX MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIE...
July 17 ,2020
As many as 895 Bangladeshis have died from novel coronavirus in six Middle East countries, according to Worldometer.
The website says...
Shamima Begum: Home Office to fight court rule letting Isi...
July 17 ,2020
British security sources have argued that Shamima Begum poses a security risk. Photograph: BBC News
The government has vowed...
Netanyahu's annexation plan turning into fiasco
July 17 ,2020
“Right now, I put the chances of Israeli annexation of any part of the West Bank at low to nonexistent,” a top Israeli secu...
Erdogan is erasing Ataturk’s stamp on Turkey
July 17 ,2020
Under normal circumstances, the most important news out of Turkey last weekend would have been a new law that, critics say, represents...
The man who drove the US out of Afghanistan
July 17 ,2020
US Afghanistan war casualties arrive at Dover Air Base in the United States
The first time Mullah Ibrahim Sadar confronted US forc...
India's flawed attempt to decouple from China will only hu...
July 17 ,2020
Banning Chinese apps has costs such as potential job losses and investment foregone. © AP
The deaths of 20 of Ind...
Will India play the ‘Tibet Card’ against China?
July 17 ,2020
Dali Lama
In the month since 20 Indian Army personnel were killed as a result of the clash at Galwan on the Sino-Indian border, pu...
Iranian move frustrates India’s regional ambitions
July 17 ,2020
Politics is always a tricky business. It becomes almost impossible, sometimes, to tell which way the winds will blow. International pol...
End to militancy nowhere in sight in Kashmir as anniversar...
July 17 ,2020
Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
Since an encounter with Burhan Wani, a Kashmir-based Hizbul commander, in 2016, Indians have...
New China deals signal Belt and Road revival in Pakistan
July 17 ,2020
China's Belt and Road program has found new life in Pakistan with $11 billion worth of projects signed in the last month, driven by a f...
Nepal wages archaeological war with India over birthplace...
July 17 ,2020
The Department of Archaeology of Nepal has said that it will soon begin an archaeological study of the birth place of Lord Ram in Nepal...
India, China locked in secretive border talks
July 17 ,2020
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will visit the front line in Ladakh on Friday, as top army generals from India and China negotiat...
Taliban says it freed 845 Afghan forces, 'fully committed'...
July 17 ,2020
The Taliban said Thursday it has already released 845 Afghan security forces under an ongoing prisoner swap with the Kabul government a...
Urban Indians value quality and price over a “Made in Indi...
July 17 ,2020
Even as Indians clamour to buy and promote locally-made products, fewer consumers consider the country of origin while making a purchas...
Maldives-China to hold talks on Bilateral Coordination Mec...
July 17 ,2020
Maldives Foreign Ministry has revealed that discussions will take place between the Maldives government and Chinese officials regarding...
Delhi Minorities Commission holds BJP and police responsib...
July 17 ,2020
Fellow Muslims mourn Muddasir Khan, who died in the Delhi riots
A report published by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC)...
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