ANDREW KISHORE, CELEBRATED PLAYBACK SINGER OF BANGLADESH,...
July 6 ,2020
Popular playback singer Andrew Kishore has died at the age of 64 after a long battle with cancer.
He passed away at his sister's resid...
FIX OXYGEN CYLINDER PRICE WITHIN 10 WORKING DAYS: HC ASKS...
July 6 ,2020
The High Court (HC) has directed the concerned departments of the government to fix a reasonable price for oxygen cylinders within the...
27 TRAFFICKED BANGLADESHIS IN VIETNAM TEMPORARILY STAYING...
July 6 ,2020
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has learnt from its mission in Hanoi that 27 Bangladeshi nationals, who were lured by human traffickers...
‘CLEAR SIGNS’ OF CHINESE TROOPS WITHDRAWING FROM GALWAN VA...
July 6 ,2020
The Indian government sources said today there were "clear signs" that the Chinese soldiers have started pulling back from Galwan Valle...
FO SUMMONS INDIAN ENVOY TO REGISTER 'STRONG PROTEST' AFTER...
July 6 ,2020
The Foreign Office on Monday summoned a senior Indian diplomat to register Pakistan's "strong protest" at the ceasefire violations alon...
TOUCHING KAABA TO BE BANNED DURING THIS YEAR’S HAJJ
July 6 ,2020
Saudi Arabia announced health protocols to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the 2020 haj season, banning gatherings and mee...
BANGLADESH COVID-19: BODY COUNTS NEAR 2,100, CASES TOP 165...
July 6 ,2020
Death toll from the coronavirus infection has reached near 2,100 in Bangladesh as 44 more people died of the deadly virus in the past 2...
INSURGENTS ATTACK SECURITY CHECKPOINTS IN KABUL
July 6 ,2020
At least one insurgent was killed and another one was captured after an attack on a security checkpoint in Kabul province on Sunday nig...
SAUDI ARABIA ANNOUNCES HAJJ HEALTH MEASURES
July 6 ,2020
Saudi Arabia announced health protocols to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in the 2020 hajj season, banning gatherings and me...
IRAN NEGOTIATING STRATEGIC ACCORD WITH CHINA
July 6 ,2020
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday that Iran has been negotiating a 25-year accord with China whose terms will be ann...
KABUL-HOSTED INTL CONFERENCE ON PEACE PROCESS BEGINS
July 6 ,2020
Kabul is hosting a meeting of 19 representatives from nations as well as international organizations today in a virtual event organized...
PM MODI TO INAUGURATE ASIA’S LARGEST SOLAR PLANT IN MADHYA...
July 6 ,2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Asia’s largest 750 MW Rewa ultra mega solar plant in Madhya Pradesh via video confer...
INDIA’S POSITIVITY RATE JUMPS, 10 OUT OF EVERY 100 PEOPLE...
July 6 ,2020
India’s Covid-19 positivity rate has been recorded at 9.9 per cent, meaning almost 10 out of every 100 people who have been teste...
CIVILIAN INJURED IN ANOTHER INDIAN CEASEFIRE VIOLATION ALO...
July 6 ,2020
A 22-year-old civilian was injured as the Indian armed forces yet again resorted to unprovoked firing along the Line of Control (LoC) o...
PM MODI MEETS PRESIDENT KOVIND, BRIEFS HIM ON ‘ISSUES OF N...
July 6 ,2020
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, two days after meeting soldiers in Ladakh, meets the President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan on S...
INDIA SIGNS 5 MOUS FOR AFGHAN EDUCATION PROJECTS
July 6 ,2020
Afghan and Indian officials signed five memoranda of understanding (MOUs) at a ceremony in Kabul on Sunday for the development of educa...
RUSSIA ANSWERS BOUNTY CLAIMS, SAYS US IS 'DRUG TRAFFICKING...
July 6 ,2020
The Russian president’s special envoy for Afghanistan affairs, Zamir Kabulov, on Saturday accused US intelligence in Afghanistan...
BANGLADESH APPOINTS DIPLOMAT IN NEW YORK AS ENVOY TO SRI L...
July 6 ,2020
The Bangladesh Government has decided to appoint Tareq Md Ariful Islam as the next high commissioner of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka, the Da...
CORONAVIRUS: INDIA OVERTAKES RUSSIA AS THIRD WORST-HIT NAT...
July 6 ,2020
India has now taken the third spot in the list of nations worst hit by coronavirus. The country logged more than 6.9 lakh cases on Sund...
Russian church slams Hagia Sophia plan, Turkey cites sover...
July 6 ,2020
The Russian Orthodox Church says converting Istanbul's Hagia Sophia monument from a museum to a mosque would be "unacceptable" while Tu...
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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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