BANGLADESH'S ARMY CHIEF RETURNS HOME FROM INDIA VISIT
September 9 ,2021
Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed returned to Dhaka yesterday from his official visit to India.
During his...
BANGLADESH TO JOIN UN, EU IN TALKS WITH TALIBAN
September 9 ,2021
Bangladesh has decided to join a dialogue, initiated by the United Nations and European Union, with the Taliban in the wake of a humani...
SHADOW GOVERNMENT ‘WAR’ CALL: MYANMAR CELL TOWERS ATTACKED
September 9 ,2021
Protesters have destroyed around a dozen military-owned communications towers in Myanmar, witnesses and reports said yesterday, after t...
INDIAN POLICE RAID HOMES, QUESTION FOUR JOURNALISTS IN KAS...
September 9 ,2021
Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have raided the homes of four journalists, triggering concerns of a further crackdown on press fr...
India begins theaterisation of military, unified commands...
September 9 ,2021
Representational Image of Indian Army soldiers patrolling the Line of Control in Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir | File photo: ANI...
IAF to get 56 C-295 Airbus aircraft as Modi govt clears ‘M...
September 9 ,2021
The C-295 aircraft | Airbus.com
In a major ‘Make in India’ step, the government Wednesday cleared the long pending, ne...
Afghanistan debacle has exposed severe European failings o...
September 9 ,2021
Members of Spanish forces disembark from a plane with evacuees from Afghanistan on August 27 | Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Image...
MI6, CIA chiefs and Russia’s Security Council secretary vi...
September 9 ,2021
Both spy chiefs and their teams met National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and top members of the National Security Council Secretari...
The promise and perils of India's infrastructure ambitions
September 9 ,2021
India's monetisation programme holds out the promise of both energising the country's existing infrastructure and powering its future...
Time for a regional economic package for Afghanistan
September 9 ,2021
The recent and rather abrupt withdrawal of the US-led coalition from Afghanistan needs to be seen in a broader context of the transform...
Indian police videos of Kashmir leader’s funeral stir fres...
September 9 ,2021
Syed Ali Shah Geelani was the top Kashmiri separatist voice over the past five decades [File: Altaf Qadri/AP]
Indian security forc...
China to keep contact with Taliban’s interim regime, but a...
September 9 ,2021
The Taliban’s new interim government is dominated by figures from its hardline rule in the 1990s. Photo: AFP
China said it w...
'Leaving Kabul most difficult decision of my life': Ex-Afg...
September 9 ,2021
Former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday, 8 September, released a statement and said that leaving Kabul had been the most...
Mamata gets Chandipath flawless this time, in a year she h...
September 9 ,2021
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee | Photo: ANI file
On Tuesday, West Bengal Chief Minister ensured a flawless rendition o...
China-India border: PLA troops, jets, artillery ‘send warn...
September 9 ,2021
A screen shot from video shown on the PLA Daily website shows Chinese soldiers conducting a military drill in Tibet. Photo: Handout...
Speculations: CIA chief in Pakistan, will PM Khan meet him...
September 9 ,2021
Wednesday, speculations abound as social media users are wondering whether the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Chief William...
US CDC warns against travel to Sri Lanka, Jamaica and Brun...
September 9 ,2021
The CDC currently lists about 80 destinations out of around 200 ranked as "Level 4".PHOTO: AFP
The United States Centres for Disea...
Taliban orders university women in Afghanistan to wear fac...
September 9 ,2021
Women attending private Afghan universities must wear an abaya robe and niqab covering most of the face, the Taliban has ordered,...
Kashmir willow bats to get GI tagging
September 9 ,2021
Kashmir willow bats to get GI tagging Photograph:( WION )
The Kashmir Willow cricket bats are famous across the world. ...
By erasing traces of the Massacre, the Jallianwala Bagh Me...
September 9 ,2021
Entrance to the Jallianwala Bagh memorial in Amritsar. Photo: Bernard Gagnon/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Some years ago, on a...
Nepal: Bridging the literacy gap
September 9 ,2021
A child dressed in traditional costume takes part in a procession to mark the Gai Jatra cow festival in Kathmandu on Aug 23, 2021.P...
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