SHOPIAN OPERATION ENTERS THIRD DAY, FRESH FIRING STARTS
March 15 ,2021
Security forces have established fresh contact with hiding militants in south Kashmir’s Shopian, as the operation that left one J...
BANGLADESH COURT ORDERS PROBE INTO TORTURE CLAIMS BY CARTO...
March 15 ,2021
A court in Bangladesh has ordered a probe into claims by a formerly jailed cartoonist that he was tortured before police detained him u...
YEMEN'S HOUTHIS SAY ATTACKED SOUTHERN SAUDI AIRPORTS WITH...
March 15 ,2021
Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Monday it had fired armed drones at an airport and air base in southern Saudi Arabia, and the Sau...
WHEELCHAIR-BOUND MAMATA BANERJEE SAYS ‘WON’T BOW DOWN’ DUR...
March 15 ,2021
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee made her first public appearance in a wheelchair and leg...
3 CIVILIANS KILLED IN 2 EXPLOSIONS IN KABUL
March 15 ,2021
At least three civilians were killed and 12 more were wounded in two separate explosions in Kabul that occurred in les...
MALAYSIAN FIELD HOSPITAL IN COX’S BAZAR HANDED OVER TO GOV...
March 15 ,2021
The Malaysian field hospital, set up in late 2017 in Cox's Bazar by the Malaysian government in response to the Rohingya refugee crisis...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 15 MARCH
March 15 ,2021
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An injured protester receives help during a protest in Hlaingthaya township against the country&rs...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 15 MARCH
March 15 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYYANGON, MYANMAR
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Biden's China reset is already on the ropes
March 15 ,2021
Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy at the State Department on Feb. 4: the President called China "our most serious competitor." &n...
Macron criticises Turkey's 'imperial inclinations' as row...
March 15 ,2021
The French president Emmanuel Macron has accused Turkey of adopting a “bellicose” stance towards its NATO allies, saying te...
After attacks on Chinese businesses, Myanmar imposes ‘full...
March 15 ,2021
Fire from burning Chinese-owned factories in Myanmar’s industrial township of Hlaing Thar Yar, on the outskirts of Yangon, is i...
Press body ‘faces watershed’ after Meghan interview row
March 15 ,2021
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Salam Fayyad’s return to Palestine politics
March 15 ,2021
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad gives a press conference about the Palestinian Authority budget in the West Bank city of Rama...
ROKETSAN to export TRG-300 KAPLAN missile to Bangladesh
March 15 ,2021
Bangladesh Chief of General Staff Gen. Aziz Ahmed announced that the TRG-300 KAPLAN Missile System developed by ROKETSAN will be delive...
Quad’s billion-dose vaccine plan merely exchange of intere...
March 15 ,2021
First Quad summit Illustration: Chen Xia/GT
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US has 1,000 more troops in Afghanistan than it disclosed
March 15 ,2021
Facing a high-stakes choice and running out of time to make it, the Biden administration is wrestling with whether to follow through wi...
Bangladesh-Nepal relations: Connectivity and business
March 15 ,2021
Nepal is eager to gear up business and connectivity through railway, road and air communication with Bangladesh. Moreover, the Himalaya...
A sari or cash? As Indian elections near, voter inducement...
March 15 ,2021
Electoral workers draw traditional folk-art designs urging residents of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to vote in the coming legislative assemb...
Toppled NLD govt’s acting vice president calls for unity a...
March 15 ,2021
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The acting vice-president of Myanmar’s deposed National League for Democracy governmen...
Taliban expresses scepticism over interim Afghan gov’t pro...
March 15 ,2021
Under the proposal, the national parliament could either be expanded to include Taliban members or suspended until after an election...
Oli tightens his grip in UML relieving leaders from Nepal...
March 15 ,2021
The clash between Prime Minister and CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli and Madhav Kumar Nepal, the senior party leader, has come to a head....
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