INDIA FOR FAST REPATRIATION TO RESOLVE ROHINGYA CRISIS PER...
July 8 ,2020
India has said it feels the necessity of immediate repatriation of forcibly displaced Rohingyas from Bangladesh to Myanmar as the neigh...
COVID-19: BANGLADESH REPORTS 46 NEW DEATHS, 3,489 CASES IN...
July 8 ,2020
Bangladesh has reported 46 new deaths and 3,489 fresh cases in the last 24 hours.
With the latest figure, the number of total confirme...
Sky is the limit for Pakistan's metal artist
July 8 ,2020
Nasim took to the skies only once - his mother made him promise not to do it again
Nasim Yousufzai started digging art with a penc...
144 BANGLADESHI MIGRANTS RESCUED FROM TRUCK IN NORTH MACED...
July 8 ,2020
North Macedonian authorities have found 211 migrants, including 63 minors packed into a truck near the country's southern border with G...
INDIA ARRESTS SOUTH KOREAN CEO, 11 OTHERS FOR GAS LEAK AT...
July 8 ,2020
Indian police have arrested 12 LG Polymers officials, including its South Korean chief executive, an officer said on Wednesday, two mon...
US GEN. DOUBTFUL RUSSIAN BOUNTIES LED TO US DEATHS
July 8 ,2020
The US Central Command head Gen. Frank McKenzie on Tuesday said he believes there were no US troop deaths as a result of reported Russi...
KANPUR ENCOUNTER CASE: VIKAS DUBEY AIDE KILLED, ANOTHER HE...
July 8 ,2020
In a latest development, Amar Dubey, a close aide of gangster Vikas Dubey, was killed in an encounter with Uttar Pradesh Special Task F...
SUICIDE BOMBER TARGETS KANDAHAR’S SHAH WALI KOT POLICE HQ
July 8 ,2020
At least three policemen were killed, and 18 others were wounded, in a suicide attack on police HQ in Kandahar on Wednesday morning, a...
'HISTORIC MOMENT': CHINA OPENS SECURITY OFFICE IN HONG KON...
July 8 ,2020
China has opened an office to "safeguard national security" in Hong Kong, turning a hotel near a hotspot for pro-democracy protests and...
US WITHDRAWAL FROM WHO OVER CLAIMS OF CHINA INFLUENCE TO T...
July 8 ,2020
The United States will leave the World Health Organisation (WHO) on July 6, 2021, the United Nations said on Tuesday, after receiving n...
AGREEMENT FOR $1.5BN HYDROPOWER PROJECT SIGNED
July 8 ,2020
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be a ‘game changer’ for the motherland...
WEST BENGAL ANNOUNCES ‘COMPLETE LOCKDOWN’ IN CONTAINMENT,...
July 8 ,2020
Amid the spike in cases of deadly coronavirus, the West Bengal government has on Tuesday announced a ‘complete lockdown’ in...
BRAZIL PRESIDENT JAIR BOLSONARO TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-1...
July 8 ,2020
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro tested positive for Covid-19 in an escalation of the health crisis that has engulfed Latin America&rsqu...
SRI LANKA TOURISM IN TALKS WITH EU ON EURO 3.5 MILLION GRA...
July 8 ,2020
Sri Lanka Tourism has been in discussion with the European Union (EU) Office in Colombo regarding the most effective use of a Euro 3.5...
BIMAN TO RESUME REGULAR FLIGHTS TO DUBAI, ABU DHABI FROM 9...
July 8 ,2020
The government on Tuesday decided to resume national carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ commercial flights to the United Arab Emi...
Australians travelling to China may be ‘arbitrarily detain...
July 8 ,2020
Australians living in and travelling to China may be arbitrarily detained, the Department of Foreign Affairs has warned as the relation...
US killing of Iran's Qassem Soleimani 'unlawful': UN exper...
July 8 ,2020
The US drone strike that killed Iran's top general Qassem Soleimani was "unlawful", the United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings...
Coronavirus: Melbourne enters new six-week lockdown due to...
July 8 ,2020
More than 5 million residents of Melbourne will be locked down for six weeks after coronavirus cases surged in Australia’s second...
Ladakh - Where shots have been fired after 50 years withou...
July 8 ,2020
Fourteen thousand feet above sea level, tensions between China and India reached a climax on the night of June 15. Troops engaged in ha...
India could buy Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense missile sys...
July 8 ,2020
The Russians are conducting an intensive advertising campaign to encourage India to buy short-range “Pantsir-S1” anti-aircr...
China deploys advanced weapons at plateau regions amid ten...
July 8 ,2020
China had deployed a variety of advanced weapons fit for high-altitude combat to the country's western plateau regions as India continu...
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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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