INDIAN NAVAL SHIPS TO VISIT BANGLADESH TO CELEBRATE ‘50 YE...
March 8 ,2021
Two Indian Naval Ships, INS Sumedha and INS Kulishwill visit the port of Mongla in Bangladesh from 8 to 10 March 2021 to celebrate hist...
MODI TO INAUGURATE FENI RIVER BRIDGE BETWEEN INDIA, BANGLA...
March 8 ,2021
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to inaugurate the "Maitri Setu" between India and Bangladesh tomorrow via vide...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 08 MARCH
March 8 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYKUNDLI, INDIA
Protesters walk next to a national highway to block KMP Expressway during a demonstration call...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 08 MARCH
March 8 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYKUNDLI, INDIA
Protesters walk next to a national highway to block KMP Expressway during a demonstration call...
How the US military is preparing for a war with China
March 8 ,2021
U.S. Marines participate in an amphibious assault exercise in Chonburi, Thailand, in February 2020: the Marines will be sea-based and...
US is disrupting security in South China Sea: Chinese Fore...
March 8 ,2021
An MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter launches aboard USS Ronald Reagan in the South China Sea on July 17, 2020.PHOTO: REUTERS
China's top...
Readying for polls, Malaysian PM Muhyiddin keeps 1MDB in s...
March 8 ,2021
Faced with growing doubts over his legitimacy, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has been lining up his ducks in recent weeks to defend h...
Afghans dread the ‘danger hours’ as fragile gains of 20 ye...
March 8 ,2021
The scene of a bomb in Lashkar Gah yesterday targeting a senior security official. Three people were killed. Photograph: Watan Yar/EP...
2 accidents in 2 weeks kill 2 Army and BSF men, Ordnance B...
March 8 ,2021
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Ammunition manufactured by the state-run Ord...
In Myanmar coup, old Israeli weapons exports are still in...
March 8 ,2021
An armoured vehicle manufactured by Israeli company Gaia Automotive Industries in use in Myanmar. Photo: Getty
The military coup i...
China treads lightly on Myanmar coup with billions at stak...
March 8 ,2021
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, with Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, in Naypyitaw. Wang traveled to Myanmar ...
India's BJP accused of 'intrusion' in neighboring countrie...
March 8 ,2021
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) recently tried again to enhance its influence in neighboring countries, but this time it failed and wa...
Imran Khan’s Sri Lanka visit: A huge foreign policy achiev...
March 8 ,2021
Only a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan concluded his maiden visit to Sri Lanka – a first by any head of government since Prim...
Farmers’ protests could upend political landscape in India
March 8 ,2021
Protesting farmers sit along a blocked highway at the Ghazipur Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border in New Delhi. Photo: Money Sharma / A...
Myanmar military hires PR agent to explain 'real situation...
March 8 ,2021
File picture of Ari Ben-Menashe arriving in Zimbabwe in 2002. The consultant say he is being paid a ‘big amount’ and will...
Indian farmers mark ‘century’ of protest against farm laws
March 8 ,2021
After completing 100-days 'not out century' of protest at the Ghazipur border, the farmers said they were ready for double century...
Renewed US push for Afghan peace faces objection by Kabul
March 8 ,2021
FILE - Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar, bottom right, speaks during peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban...
Rohingyas in India fear deportation after police detain ov...
March 8 ,2021
Rohingya refugees carry their belongings as they leave a refugee camp in Jammu, India, on March 7, 2021
Indian police have detaine...
China willing to engage Myanmar to ease tensions: China fo...
March 8 ,2021
Anti-coup protesters in Yangon on March 7, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
China is willing to work with the parties involved in Myanmar's militar...
Bangladesh seeks China fund to address rural-urban digital...
March 8 ,2021
Bangladesh has sought Chinese investment for a Tk 30-billion project that aims at reducing the 'digital divide'.
Finance ministry has...
Bhutan aims to achieve GNI per capita of USD 12,000 by 203...
March 8 ,2021
The 21st-century Economic Roadmap draft report proposes a goal to achieve high-income nation status by 2030. This will be defined...
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