Turkey says Ukraine grain exports could start within a wee...
July 28, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Turkey is due to open a joint operations centre with Ukraine, Russia and the UN to coordinate trade under the agreement. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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The US military is making plans in the Indo-Pacific in cas...
July 28, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
A possible trip by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan may well loom over a call planned between US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Ji...
Bangladesh’s population reaches 165 million
July 28, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Bangladesh’s current population is 165,158,616 (16 crore 51 lakh 58 thousand 616) according to the 'Population and Housing Census 2022' report p...
Another Kashmiri journalist stopped from leaving country,...
July 28, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Illustration: Wikimedia Commons
New Delhi: Independent Kashmiri journalist Aakash Hassan, who writes on human rights, digital technologies a...
Singapore extends stay of former Sri Lankan President Raja...
July 28, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Sri Lanka's former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa landed in Singapore on July 14, a day after fleeing his crisis-ridden country following a popular up...
Turkish entrepreneurs show increased interest in Banglades...
July 25, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
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Mustafa Osman Turan has been the ambassador of Turkey in Bangladesh since February 2020. He has been involved in v...
Why the U.S. military thinks Pelosi's Taiwan trip is a bad...
July 25, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
President Joe Biden shakes hands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after delivering his State of the Union address on March 1. (Official Wh...
Droupadi Murmu takes oath as 15th President of India, the...
July 25, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Droupadi Murmu takes oath as the 15th President of India in New Delhi on 25 July 2022 | Photo: Sansad TV
New Delhi: Droupadi Murmu took oath...
Myanmar junta executes 4 democracy activists: state media
July 25, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar’s military authorities have executed four democracy activists including former lawmaker and hip-hop artist Phyo Zeya Thaw. (File photo...
Myanmar building projects worth $1.3bn frozen since army t...
July 25, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
A complex of four buildings called "Yoma Central" near Yangon Central railway station, is under construction on July 22. Before the change in govern...
Bangladesh to purchase Turkish fighter drone
July 24, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Bayraktar TB2Baykar Technology
Bangladesh is set to purchase a Turkish combat drone -- Bayraktar TB2 – that Ukraine has been using to comba...
Biden's Saudi trip signalled the West's game of war monger...
July 24, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Saudi Arabia was in the news recently when its young crown prince fist-bumped Joe Biden and met with the US president, despite the latter threatening...
Teen from Chattogram secures Guinness World Record
July 24, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
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Ayman Mohammad, 16, has registered his name in the Guinness Book of World Records by stacking 75 coins into a tower within a minute.
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Bangladesh loosens its booze laws
July 24, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Despite its location on one of the busiest streets in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, Eram is almost impossible for newcomers to find. Only a...
Will Droupadi Murmu remain a BJP electoral ploy or help un...
July 24, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
President-elect Droupadi Murmu celebrates with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in New Delhi, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Photo: PTI
New Delhi: I...
China snaps up over US$2 billion of Russian LNG as energy...
July 22, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
China bought a total of 2.35 million tonnes of LNG - valued at US$2.16 billion - from Russia in the first six months of the year. Photo: Reuters...
India’s Sonia Gandhi questioned in historical money launde...
July 22, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Sonia Gandhi has been a driving influence in her once-dominant party since the 1991 assassination of her husband, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi...
Nepalese climber Sanu Sherpa sets record atop Pakistan mou...
July 22, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Sanu Sherpa [Courtesy: Pioneer Adventure hiking company]
A 47-year-old Nepalese Sherpa has set a climbing record by scaling all the wor...
‘I want to leave Sri Lanka as soon as possible’: thousands...
July 22, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
People wait to get their passports outside the immigration department in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on July 18. Photo: AP
One of the longest queues in t...
Pakistan's ex-Prime Minister Khan wins by-elections in Pun...
July 21, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan. His party's win in Punjab is a blow to Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s ruling coalition. ©...
Sri Lanka crisis a warning to 'Asian nations including Ban...
July 21, 2022
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By: SAM Staff
Women crowd at an onion selling point of the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) following a hike in the prices of the staple vegetable in the l...
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