LALU PRASAD GETS BAIL IN DUMKA TREASURY CASE, LIKELY TO WA...
April 17 ,2021
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad was Saturday granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court in a case linked to the fodder s...
'HIGH PROBABILITY' BIDEN'S DECISION TO PULL U.S. TROOPS FR...
April 17 ,2021
Former White House adviser Richard Clarke said that there is a “high probability” that President Biden’s decision to...
QURESHI TO UNDERTAKE FOUR-NATION TOUR
April 17 ,2021
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will undertake a four-nation tour that includes Qatar, Iran, the UAE and Turkey as part of diplom...
MODI APPEALS TO KEEP HINDU FESTIVAL SYMBOLIC AS INDIA'S CO...
April 17 ,2021
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday appealed to devotees to keep a key Hindu festival symbolic as the country reported more...
MYANMAR PARDONS PRISONERS, THOUGH LIKELY NOT DISSIDENTS
April 17 ,2021
Authorities in Myanmar will release 23,184 prisoners from jails across the country on Saturday under a New Year amnesty, a Prisons Depa...
FOUR SHOT DEAD DURING WORKERS' DEMO AT BANSHKHALI POWER PL...
April 17 ,2021
Four people were shot to death during a demonstration of workers of Banshkhali coal-fired power plant in Chattogram demanding salary an...
Long after the world moved on, Bangladesh is still shelter...
April 17 ,2021
If Rutger Bregman, author of the best-selling book “Humankind: A Hopeful History,” needs another example to support his arg...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 17 APRIL
April 17 ,2021
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Farmers eat a meal during a 24-hour blockade of a major expressway as part of their ong...
MORNING NEWS BRIEF: 17 APRIL
April 17 ,2021
PICTURE OF THE DAYDASNA, INDIA
Farmers eat a meal during a 24-hour blockade of a major expressway as part of their ongoing protests ag...
Russia expels 10 US diplomats as part of retaliation for s...
April 17 ,2021
Russia has delivered a sharp response to the Biden administration’s sanctions, blacklisting senior officials and targeting the US...
EU drops plans to punish China over Hong Kong electoral re...
April 17 ,2021
The European Union’s plans to take new measures against Beijing’s roll-out of sweeping electoral reforms in the city have b...
Iran starts enriching uranium at 60%, its highest level ev...
April 17 ,2021
While 60 percent is higher than any level Iran previously enriched uranium, it is still lower than weapons-grade levels of 90 percent...
We are not at risk of collapse: President Ghani
April 17 ,2021
President Ashraf Ghani at an online event on Thursday said the Afghan government “is not at risk of collapse” as Afghanista...
Bangladesh keeps garment factories going as lockdown hits
April 17 ,2021
Mim Akter had to walk for nearly an hour before she found a rickshaw to take her to the garment factory where she works in locked-down...
India’s COVID vaccine maker urges Biden to lift exports em...
April 17 ,2021
The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s biggest vaccine maker, has urged President Joe Biden to lift an embargo by the Un...
Six women become the first Nepali women to climb 8,091-met...
April 17 ,2021
Photojournalist Purnima Shrestha during her acclimatization on Mt Annapurna last week. Photo Courtesy: Purnima Shrestha
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India likely to use force against Pakistan under Modi's le...
April 17 ,2021
India is more likely than in the past to respond with military force against Pakistan under the leadership of Prime Minister...
Prince Philip's car becomes Sri Lankan royal artefact
April 17 ,2021
An almost 90-year-old car that once belonged to Britain's late Prince Philip is now the centrepiece of a seaside museum in Sri Lanka....
What did 20 years of western intervention in Afghanistan a...
April 17 ,2021
The longest, most pointless and unsuccessful war that Britain has fought in the past 70 years – its intervention in Afghanistan &...
Can Joe Biden really end America’s ‘forever wars’ in Afgha...
April 17 ,2021
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden said that he plans to withdraw remaining US troops from the "forever war" in Afghanistan before Se...
Thaw in Pakistan-India tensions is 'tactical': Experts
April 17 ,2021
United Arab Emirates-brokered backdoor diplomacy has brought a thaw in otherwise mounting tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and 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...
