TENS OF THOUSANDS FLEE HUGE BLAZE IN ROHINGYA CAMP IN BANG...
March 23 ,2021
A huge blaze that ripped through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh has forced at least 50,000 people to flee and left sev...
Thousands evacuated in Australia's worst flooding in almos...
March 23 ,2021
Australian authorities issued fresh flood warnings and evacuation orders on Tuesday as torrential rains again pummelled several parts o...
Biden sends envoys to Mexico, Guatemala asking help on mig...
March 23 ,2021
U.S. officials will ask authorities in Mexico and Guatemala to help stem migrant traffic, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on...
ISRAELIS VOTE ON NETANYAHU AGAIN, AFTER VACCINATION SUCCES...
March 23 ,2021
Israelis vote on Tuesday on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political survival in a fourth election in two years, with the ve...
10 PEOPLE KILLED AFTER GUNMAN OPENS FIRE AT BOULDER, COLOR...
March 23 ,2021
Ten people, including a Boulder police officer, were killed in mass shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, authori...
US DEFENSE SECRETARY, PAKISTAN’S ARMY CHIEF DISCUSS AFGHAN...
March 23 ,2021
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a telephonic conversation with Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa on Sunday reinforced th...
BHUTANESE PM DR TSHERING ARRIVES DHAKA
March 23 ,2021
Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering has reached Dhaka on a state visit as a special representative of the Bhutanese King to part...
DHAKA, KATHMANDU SIGN 4 MOUS ON SIDELINES OF CELEBRATIONS
March 23 ,2021
Bangladesh and Nepal on Monday signed four Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) to enhance cooperation between the two countries in tour...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 23 MARCH
March 23 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYDUBAI, UAE
A specialised team cleans the outside of the 77-metre tall Museum of the Future. The Museum of th...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 23 MARCH
March 23 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYDUBAI, UAE
A specialised team cleans the outside of the 77-metre tall Museum of the Future. The Museum of the Future...
INDIA TO CONFER GANDHI PEACE PRIZE 2020 ON BANGABANDHU
March 23 ,2021
In recognition of his outstanding contributions towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gan...
Sri Lanka minorities warn Muslim nations ahead of UNHRC vo...
March 23 ,2021
Anti-Muslim rhetoric continues to plague the country [File: Chamila Karunarathne/EPA]
Minority community leaders in Sri Lanka have...
Nepal starts counting its one-horned rhinos after six year...
March 23 ,2021
The nationwide census of one-horned rhinos kicked off on Monday.
The rhino census, which is taking place after six years, was inaugura...
Afghan Foreign Minister in India for talks
March 23 ,2021
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Mohammed Haneef Atmar arrived in New Delhi on Monday for a three-day visit to discuss,...
India-Pakistan detente continues with water-sharing talks
March 23 ,2021
India and Pakistan are to hold the first meeting in three years on Tuesday of a commission on water rights from the Indus River in a fu...
Maldives' total debt at MVR 86.5 bln
March 23 ,2021
Statistics have shown that the Maldives’ total debt was at MVR 86.5 billion at the end of 2020.According to debt statistics pub...
Another bloody day in Myanmar as death toll reaches 254
March 23 ,2021
A collage of photos shows dead bodies of Mandalay residents who were shot dead on Monday.
Myanmar’s protest-related death to...
Nepal’s ongoing political limbo
March 23 ,2021
In recent weeks, Nepal’s young democracy has been shaken by two landmark Supreme Court decisions. While the first proved the inst...
Beijing updates 'Made in China 2025' for leaner, meaner ti...
March 23 ,2021
Visitors look at a display of a semiconductor device at Semicon China, a trade fair for semiconductor technology, in Shanghai, China,...
Retired Lt Gen says Indian Army was involved in Sikh Massa...
March 23 ,2021
Lt Gen KS Gill (L) with Journalist Jasneet Singh: In 2017, Retd Lt Gen KS Gill, who was part of the investigation, in an i...
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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...
