PAKISTAN GETS NEW AIR FORCE CHIEF
March 18 ,2021
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday appointed Air Marshal Zaheer Ahmad Babar Sidhu as new head of the country's air force...
MYANMAR MILITARY TO BRING FRESH CHARGES AGAINST AUNG SAN S...
March 18 ,2021
Myanmar’s overthrown leader Aung San Suu Kyi is set to face new charges of corruption from the generals who seized power in a cou...
INDIA AND BANGLADESH AGREE TO EXPAND COOPERATION OVER ISSU...
March 18 ,2021
The India-Bangladesh Water Resources Secretary-level meeting under the framework of the Joint Rivers Commission took place on 16 March...
US FORCES CONDUCT AIRSTRIKES AGAINST TALIBAN IN KANDAHAR
March 18 ,2021
US forces in Afghanistan said that they carried out an airstrike on the Taliban in the defense of the Afghan National Security and Defe...
MALDIVIAN PRESIDENT CALLS BANGABANDHU ‘GIANT OF SOUTH ASIA...
March 18 ,2021
Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih today described Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as one of giants of So...
WILL STRENGTHEN DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES WITH BANGLADESH: CH...
March 18 ,2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he will work with President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to strengthen the comple...
RUSSIA RECALLS ITS US AMBASSADOR FOR CONSULTATIONS AFTER B...
March 18 ,2021
Russia on Wednesday called its ambassador to the United States back to Moscow for consultations on the future of US-Russia ties...
Quad lacks moral authority in South China Sea
March 18 ,2021
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga attends the virtual Quad meeting on March 12, 2021, with US President Joe Biden, Australian Pr...
The world's richest countries are hoarding vaccines. This...
March 18 ,2021
A medical worker receives a dose of coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, earlier this month. Photograph: Ebrahim Ham...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 18 MARCH
March 18 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYNEW YORK, USA
Images of people who died from complications related to the Covid-19 disease are projected on...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 18 MARCH
March 18 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYNEW YORK, USA
Images of people who died from complications related to the Covid-19 disease are projected on the Broo...
Turkish defense chief joins NATO meeting on Afghanistan
March 18 ,2021
Turkey’s national defense minister on Wednesday virtually attended a NATO-led meeting on Afghanistan, a country whose struggle fo...
UN makes first visit to remote Bangladesh island since Roh...
March 18 ,2021
Rohingya refugees at Bhasan Char island in Bangladesh on Dec 29, 2020.PHOTO: REUTERS
A United Nations delegation will on Wednesday...
38 business projects approved in Bhutan to generate jobs
March 18 ,2021
With the aim to generate more jobs, about 38 business projects from farming to mediatech to postal services have been approved by the N...
Everest-bound Bahraini prince probed over coronavirus vacc...
March 18 ,2021
Nepal is investigating how a Bahraini prince planning to climb Mount Everest brought 2,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to the country wit...
Pakistan receives 500,000 vaccine doses from China, doubli...
March 18 ,2021
Pakistan on Wednesday received a Chinese donation of 500,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine, bringing the country’s total supply to 1...
Nepal probes Bahraini prince's 'gift' of 2,000 vaccines to...
March 18 ,2021
An investigation has been sparked in Nepal after a Bahraini prince brought 2,000 Covid-19 vaccines into the country as a donation for a...
With economic growth and shift in power balance, China bri...
March 18 ,2021
Within China’s foreign policy circles, China is seen to be on the brink of a substantial shift in power on the world stage. The...
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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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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...
