Beirut, Sep 17: Dozens of Hezbollah members were injured as the pagers they use to communicate exploded on Tuesday, Al-Jadeed local TV channel reported. The Israeli military targeted the batteries of these pagers, leading to the explosions, said the report, adding the injured were being transported to hospitals in Lebanon’s capital Beirut and Dahieh in...
Yangon, Sep 15 : Severe flooding in Myanmar has led to 74 deaths and 89 people missing as of the evening of Sept. 13, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar daily reported on Sunday. The floods, caused by heavy rain, have impacted 462 villages and wards in 64 townships in Nay Pyi Taw, Bago,...
St Petersburg/New Delhi, Sep 12: Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Thursday met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Konstantinovsky Palace in St Petersburg. During the meeting President Putin proposed to hold a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 22, on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan. During the...
Moscow, Sep 12 : Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he expects to discuss issues of bilateral cooperation with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a separate bilateral meeting within the framework of the BRICS summit in Kazan. Russian-Chinese relations are successfully developing in many areas, including in international affairs, the economy and the...
Geneva, Sep 12 : At least 88 cases of monkeypox have been recorded among refugees in Africa, including 68 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said. “At least 88 mpox cases have been reported among refugees in Africa, with 68 of them among refugees in...
Tehran, Sep 11 : An International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has urged the pre-trial chamber to issue arrest warrants “with utmost urgency” for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, media reports said on Wednesday. According to Mehr News Agency, the arrest warrants are “necessary to ensure that they do not obstruct...
Moscow, Sep 10: The United States is trying to maintain its dominance in the world at any cost, using Ukraine in order to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. “We see that the United States is trying to maintain its global military and political dominance at any cost....
Canberra, Sep 10: Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a plan to ban children from using social media. The prime minister stated on Tuesday that the government will introduce legislation in 2024 to enforce a minimum age for access to social media and other relevant digital platforms. “We know social media is causing social...
Vladivostok/New Delhi, Sep 5 : Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that China, Brazil and India are among Russia’s friends and partners who he believes are sincerely interested in helping resolve the Ukrainian conflict and he is in continuous touch with their leaders. Speaking at the plenary session of the 9th Eastern Economic Forum...
Islamabad, Sep 3: A total of 293 people have been killed and 564 others injured in monsoon rain-triggered accidents in Pakistan in the past two months as heavy downpours continued to wreak havoc in parts of the country, according to the National Disaster Management Authority. Heavy rains have partially or fully damaged 19,572 houses, 39...
Dhaka, Aug 30: Bangladesh Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum on Thursday said more than 1,000 people were killed and over 400 blinded during the student-led mass uprising. The adviser spoke about protest casualties while briefing local media after visiting the Central Police Hospital in Rajarbagh. The Human Rights Support Society said on August 21, it had...
Dhaka, Aug 23 : A murder complaint has been filed against cricketer Shakib Al Hasan and actor Ferdous Ahmed, both former Awami League MPs in the 12th parliament, media reports said. Rafiqul Islam, the dead Rubel’s father, filed the case on Thursday at Dhaka’s Adabor police station. Shakib is the 28th accused in the case,...
Dhaka, Aug 23 : Bangladesh’s interim government revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina here on Thursday, media reports said. Bangladesh’s previous prime minister, Hasina, fled to India after being forced to resign due to a student-led popular movement on August 5. According to Indian visa rules, Bangladeshi residents with diplomatic or official...
Chicago, Aug 21: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who has already won enough delegates to become the Democratic presidential nominee in a virtual roll call vote earlier this month, was once again confirmed as the party’s nominee Tuesday night during the Democratic National Convention. California, Harris’ home state, cast 482 votes for Harris, sending her...
Islamabad, Aug 19: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has applied to run for the chancellor of Oxford University, the Guardian reported, citing Khan’s adviser Syed Zulfi Bukhari. Khan, 71, studied politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford’s Keble College in the 1970s, successfully playing for its cricket team, and from 2005 to 2014 he was...
Dhaka, Aug 16 : Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader have been charged with murder of a teacher in Bogura district, media reports said on Friday. Ninety-nine local AL leaders and activists were named in the case filed with Bogura Sadar Police Station over the murder of...
Dhaka, Aug 14: The World Bank wants to work for development and job creation in Bangladesh and support the interim government to introduce new financial reforms, media reports said. World Bank’s Country Director Abdoulaye Seck, after meeting Dr Salehuddin Ahmed Finance and Planning advisor on Tuesday, expressed World Bank’s support for economic reforms in Bangladesh,...
Dhaka, Aug 14 : Eight days after being forced to resign and flee her country, former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday night sought a probe into the killings, vandalism, and arson carried out “in the name of” agitation. In her first official statement, which was posted on his verified Facebook page by her...
Dhaka, Aug 13 : Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and six officials have been named as accused in a murder complaint filed in a local court here over the killing of grocery shop owner in police firing during anti-quota stir on July 19, media reports said on Tuesday. Amir Hamza Shatil, a Mohammadpur resident...
Washington, Aug 13 : The US has firmly denied allegations of its involvement in the removal of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from power, media reports said on Tuesday. “Any reports or rumours that the United States government was involved in these events is simply, simply false. That is not true,” said White House...
Islamabad, Aug 12: Former chief of Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, Lt Gen (Retd) Faiz Hameed, has been arrested by the military which has also initiated proceedings for his court-martial in connection with a housing scheme scam, the Army said on Monday. Hameed was taken into custody following a detailed court of inquiry in compliance with...