Dhaka, July 22 : The Bangladeshi Supreme Court has scrapped most of the quotas on public jobs after their introduction sparked deadly student-led protests across the capital of Dhaka, media reports said on Sunday. The South Asian country’s top court dismissed a lower court’s order to reinstate quotas, thus opening over 90% of government jobs...
Brussels, July 22 : More than 500,000 NATO military personnel are currently on high alert, NATO spokesperson Farah Dakhlallah. “Since 2014, NATO has undergone the most significant transformation in our collective defense in a generation. We have put in place the most comprehensive defense plans since the Cold War, with currently more than 500,000 troops...
Washington, July 21: US President Joe Biden on Sunday announced he would drop out from his re-election bid, and endorsed Vice-president Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party nominee for the coveted post. Biden’s decision to withdraw from the presidential race capped month-long speculations about his future, following intense pressure from close associates in the Democratic...
Cape Town, July 20 : The government of South Africa welcomes the advisory opinion of the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, the South African Foreign Ministry said. On Friday, the UN court issued an advisory opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of...
Dhaka, July 19 : Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Friday banned rallies and processions in the city even as police and quota protesters clashed at Mohammadpur, Badda, Rampura and Jatrabari areas, media reports said. Deputy commissioner (Media) at DMP, Faruk Hossain, told Prothom Alo around 12.45 pm that all sorts of rallies and processions are...
Dhaka, July 19: Thousands of students armed with sticks and rocks battled with armed police in Dhaka as the Bangladeshi government cut off certain mobile internet access to quell protests over civil sector hiring quotas, Al Jazeera reported. At least 17 people were killed in fights at protests across Bangladesh on Thursday, according to local...
Dhaka, July 19 : Bangladesh is currently experiencing a near-total national internet shutdown, internet performance monitoring organisation NetBlocks said on Thursday. “Live network data show Bangladesh is now in the midst of a near-total national internet shutdown,” the watchdog said on Telegram. The internet blackout occurs in the wake of earlier attempts to limit access...
Washington, July 18 : U.S. President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, the White House confirmed. “Earlier today following his first event in Las Vegas, President Biden tested positive for Covid-19. He is vaccinated and boosted, and he is experiencing mild symptoms,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. “He...
Muscat/New Delhi, July 17: Thirteen Indian sailors are among a 16-member crew of a Comoros-flagged oil tanker that capsized off Oman on Monday night, and are still missing. Oman’s Maritime Security Centre said that the crew of ‘Prestige Falcon’ comprised 13 Indians and three Sri Lankans. According to reports, the 117-meter-long oil ship Prestige Falcon...
Tehran, July 17 : Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Wednesday dismissed U.S. media reports of Tehran’s plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump. In a statement released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry early Wednesday, Kanaani made the remarks in response to CNN’s claim on Tuesday that U.S. authorities “obtained intelligence from a human...
Islamabad, July 15 : The federal government of Pakistan has announced its decision to ban the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in an attempt to suppress the party, media reports said on Monday. The move seems to be a strategy to prevent incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party from becoming the largest party in the National...
Kathmandu, July 15 : At least 11 bodies have been recovered from the search for missing passengers following the Friday accident, but the identities of four remain unascertained, officials said here on Monday. According to the authorities, search and rescue operations for the missing passengers and the two buses swept away into the Trishuli River...
New York, July 14 : Former US President Donald Trump said on social media that while he was addressing a rally in Pennsylvani, he heard a whizzing sound, shots, moments later felt a bullet piercing upper part of his right ear on Saturday. In a related incident the US Secret Service statement said, “One spectator...
New York, July 14: Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media that he was shot at a rally in Butler in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania on Saturday. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear,” he said on his social media platform Truth Social. Trump...
Islamabad, July 13 : In a significant development for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), party founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were acquitted in the iddat case by a district and sessions court on Saturday. The court accepted their pleas seeking annulment of their conviction in the un-Islamic nikah case, media reports said. Additional...
Riyadh, July 12: Saudi Arabia will host the first-ever Olympic Esports Games in 2025, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday. “The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that it has partnered with the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Saudi Arabia to host the inaugural Olympic Esports Games 2025 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,”...
Washington, July 12: NATO declares the right to use force anywhere in the world, whether under the pretext of democracy or battling terrorism, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov has said, summarizing the results of the NATO summit that has ended in Washington. “The states of ‘golden billion’ want to keep in a...
Islamabad, July 11 : A Saudi Airlines flight from Riyadh caught fire upon landing at Bacha Khan International Airport in Peshawar on Thursday, forcing a quick evacuation of all passengers and crew members to safety, Dawn reported. Air traffic controllers saw smoke and flames coming from the aircraft’s left landing gear during the landing, alerting...
Vienna/New Delhi, July 9 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Vienna on Monday evening on an official visit, in the first such visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the European nation in over 40 years. He was welcomed at the airport by Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg. PM Modi in a post on X...
Beijing, July 8 : About 2,400 people were evacuated in the Jining city district in China’s eastern Shandong province after a dam collapsed on the Sihe River amid heavy rains, the media reported on Monday. Rains and floods collapsed a part of the river slope in Sishui County, China Central Television reported. Emergency services were...
Moscow/New Delhi, July 8: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Moscow on Monday evening to a ceremonial welcome. PM Modi said he is looking forward to further deepening the bilateral Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership, especially in futuristic areas of cooperation, during his summit talks with President Vladimir Putin. PM Modi was received by First...