2 MORE KIDNAPPED INDIAN ENGINEERS FREED IN AFGHANISTAN
August 5 ,2020
India said on Tuesday two more of the seven Indian engineers kidnapped in northern Baghlan province in May 2018 had been freed and had...
12 PEOPLE KILLED IN 'ROADSIDE BLAST' IN BAGHLAN
August 5 ,2020
At least 12 people close to Mahbubullah Ghafari, a former member of the provincial council of Baghlan, were killed in a roadside mine b...
BEIRUT IS A ‘DESTROYED CITY’ AFTER EXPLOSION THAT KILLED 1...
August 5 ,2020
Army personnel and rescue workers sifted through mountains of rubble from a massive explosion that flattened Lebanon’s main port,...
3 BANGLADESHIS KILLED IN BEIRUT BLAST
August 5 ,2020
Three Bangladeshis were killed in a huge explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Embassy of Bangladesh in Beirut confirmed the matte...
21 BANGLADESH NAVY MEN HURT, BNS BIJOY DAMAGED IN BEIRUT B...
August 5 ,2020
At least 21 members of Bangladesh Navy were injured in the deadly explosion in Lebanon's Beirut on Tuesday.
Some 110 Navy officials we...
JAPAN TO GIVE $329M TO BANGLADESH TO COMBAT COVID-19: ABE...
August 5 ,2020
Japan will provide 329 million US dollars (equivalent to 35 billion yen) to Bangladesh as grant to help the country combat coronavirus....
Maldives announces curfew in the Greater Malé Region
August 5 ,2020
The government of Maldives has announced a seven-hour curfew in the Greater Malé Region.
The Health Emergency Operations Center...
Bhutan to resume boulder export from Samtse soon
August 5 ,2020
Export of boulders (and aggregates) to Bangladesh and India from Samtse is expected to resume this week, according to dredging companie...
Aung San Suu Kyi confirms contesting for second term
August 5 ,2020
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday formally declared her intention to seek a second term in an election in November that is see...
Pompeo, Taliban's Baradar discuss Afghan peace process
August 5 ,2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a video meeting with the Taliban's chief negotiator, Mullah Baradar Akhund, to discuss the state...
Nepal’s Janaki temple priest won’t be able to attend Ram t...
August 5 ,2020
Nepal’s Janaki temple priest Ram Tapeshwar Das won’t be able to attend the bhoomi pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the R...
Pakistan issues Youm-e-Istehsal stamps
August 5 ,2020
The government has unveiled a special postage stamp in connection with the Youm-e-Istehsal to be observed on Wednesday (5 August) to hi...
One year on, Modi's Kashmir 'master stroke' has proven to...
August 5 ,2020
It’s been a year now that the Bharatiya Janata Party government delivered its Kashmir “masterstroke”. Just like the o...
On eve of Ram temple construction, those who demolished Ba...
August 5 ,2020
In a recent interview, Kalyan Singh, a senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and chief minister of Uttar Pradesh when the B...
Pakistan-Bangladesh ties: more than meets the eye
August 5 ,2020
Since July 22 when Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Bangladeshi counterpart Shaikh Hasina spoke by telephone, the media landscape has...
India cannot rely on Russian defense ties anymore
August 5 ,2020
India is struggling to get China to disengage in the Himalayas; meanwhile, Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar has been playing down...
Pakistan unveils 'new political map' including Indian occu...
August 5 ,2020
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday unveiled a "new political map" of Pakistan which also included occupied Kashmir.
The pr...
Alleged murder of former bodyguard of Sheikh Hasina rocks...
August 5 ,2020
Major (Retired) Sinha Mohammed Rashed Khan
The mysterious death of a former bodyguard of Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasin...
India cannot ‘completely block off’ all ties with China: F...
August 5 ,2020
India cannot completely cut off its economic ties with China even though tensions between the countries have escalated in recent months...
Police, military troops killed in fighting with Arakan Arm...
August 5 ,2020
Myanmar military officials, soldiers and other personnel were killed in clashes with the Arakan Army (AA) in northern Rakhine State&rsq...
New cold war will not stop US decline
August 5 ,2020
Why has the US attitude toward China changed so profoundly?
The origins lie in the 2008 financial crisis. The relatively stable...
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Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
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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Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
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...
