MOBILE 3G, 4G SERVICES SHUT DOWN AT PLACES
March 29 ,2021
On top of being unable to communicate via Facebook and its Messenger app for over three days, people in certain areas in the country ar...
ANTI-MODI PROTESTS: CASE FILED AGAINST 500-600 OVER CLASHE...
March 29 ,2021
Some 500-600 people were made accused in a lawsuit filed in connection with the clashes that broke out in the capital’s Baitul Mu...
HUGE SHIP BLOCKING SUEZ CANAL PARTIALLY REFLOATED, MORE WO...
March 29 ,2021
A massive container ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal for nearly a week has been partially refloated, the Suez Canal Authority (SC...
CHINA-DONATED COVID-19 VACCINE ARRIVING NEPAL TODAY
March 29 ,2021
China-donated COVID-19 vaccine is arriving in Nepal today.
A wide body airbus 330 of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC), a Nepali flag c...
MYANMAR BLOODSHED 'ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS', BIDEN SAYS AFTE...
March 29 ,2021
US President Joe Biden has led global condemnation of an "absolutely outrageous" crackdown by Myanmar's junta that left more than 100 p...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 29 MARCH
March 29 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYCOX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
Hindu devotees carry urns containing milk on their heads while taking part in...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 29 MARCH
March 29 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYCOX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
Hindu devotees carry urns containing milk on their heads while taking part in...
Biden faces tough choices in Afghanistan as troop withdraw...
March 29 ,2021
U.S. President Joe Biden has mulled over extending the May 1 deadline set last year by his predecessor Donald Trump with the Taliban fo...
India’s news upstarts challenged Modi, new rules could tam...
March 29 ,2021
Journalists in the newsroom of The Wire, an online media outlet that has challenged the government’s narratives
Narendra Mod...
Why are social media platforms silencing Kashmiri voices?
March 29 ,2021
More than one million Indian soldiers are deployed in Kashmir [File: Reuters/Danish Ismail]
For decades, India has sought to obfus...
In Suez Canal, stuck ship Is a warning about excessive glo...
March 29 ,2021
The Ever Given, a container ship operated by a company called Evergreen, blocked all traffic in the Suez Canal when it became wedged...
Iran and China sign 25-year cooperation agreement
March 29 ,2021
The agreement was signed by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi [Iranian Pr...
Malaysia's UMNO dumps Muhyiddin-led coalition ahead of pol...
March 29 ,2021
A poster of United Malays National Organisation President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi: He declared UMNO will not work with Prime Min...
India, US start 2-day naval exercise in eastern Indian Oce...
March 29 ,2021
Reflecting growing partnership in defence and military, India and the US kicked off a two-day naval exercise in the eastern Indian Ocea...
Jobless growth: The pandemic has revealed India’s crisis o...
March 29 ,2021
COVID-19 infections are once again on the rise with daily infections crossing 60,000 per day last week. This is considerably higher com...
Russia could upset India’s US-China balancing act
March 29 ,2021
US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin, left, meets with his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh on March 20. Photo: Bloomberg
US D...
On bloodiest day for Myanmar civilians, India attends mili...
March 29 ,2021
India was among only eight countries which chose to send a representative to attend the Myanmar Armed Forces Day military parade in Nay...
Afghanistan: What next?
March 29 ,2021
“It is going to be hard to meet the May 1 deadline in terms of tactical reasons. It’s hard to get those troops out. We will...
From liberalism to secularism, the battle for Bengal has j...
March 29 ,2021
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a rally ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls 2021, at Bolpur in Birbhum district of...
U.S. envoy to Afghanistan heads to Turkey and region to pu...
March 29 ,2021
FILE PHOTO: U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad attends a news briefing following the Afghan peace conference in Moscow, Russia March...
Facebook and Messenger reportedly down in Bangladesh
March 29 ,2021
Social media platform Facebook and its instant messaging platform Facebook Messenger is reportedly facing outage in the country. Users...
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