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Indian court jails 8 JMB members over 2018 Bodh Gaya blast

A court in India today awarded life sentence to three Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh militants and 10 years' rigorous imprisonment to five other JMB members in a case relating to a bomb blast in Buddhist pilgrimage town of Bodh Gaya in eastern state of Bihar in 2018.
17 December 2021, 17:28 PM

India will stand in support of Bangladesh: Kovind

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind has assured President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that India will stand in support of Bangladesh that embodies values that emerge from the Liberation Movement of the country.
17 December 2021, 12:22 PM

Indian PM Modi to be awarded Bhutan’s highest civilian honour

Bhutan today named Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for its highest civilian honour “Ngadag Pel gi Khorlo”.
17 December 2021, 06:16 AM

Osaka building fire in Japan that left 24 dead suspected to be arson

A fire that spread from a fourth-floor mental clinic in an eight-story building in downtown Osaka in western Japan on Friday left 24 dead in what police were investigating as a possible case of arson and murder.
17 December 2021, 04:41 AM

US Congress votes to set up commission

The US Congress yesterday voted to set up a commission to assess the failures of the 20-year war in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s victory.
16 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Seldom has humanity witnessed sacrifices as in 1971: Indian President

Visiting Indian President Ram Nath Kovind today said that seldom has humanity witnessed sacrifices on a scale so epic as during the 1971 Liberation War.
16 December 2021, 15:59 PM

Rahul, Priyanka criticise Modi for not mentioning Indira Gandhi at Victory Day event

Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for not mentioning the name of Indira Gandhi during the official programme on the occasion of Vijay Diwas to mark India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war that led to the emergence of independent Bangladesh.
16 December 2021, 14:29 PM

1971 was Indira Gandhi’s finest year: Sonia Gandhi

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has termed 1971 as Indira Gandhi’s “finest year” and lauded India’s armed forces and the people of Bangladesh for the Liberation War victory that has a distinctive place in the history of the subcontinent.
16 December 2021, 07:38 AM

Modi pays tribute to Muktijoddhas, Biranganas and members of Indian Army for sacrifices in Liberation War

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid tribute to the Muktijoddha, Birangana and Indian armed forces members who took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
16 December 2021, 06:29 AM

98pc of Afghans not eating enough

Nearly all Afghans do not have enough food to eat and a failing economy could tip Afghanistan’s increasingly dire situation under Taliban rule into catastrophe in 2022, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Hong Kong’s trade centre fire doused, about 150 trapped on roof

A fire broke out on Wednesday in Hong Kong's World Trade Centre, trapping about 150 people on its roof, and 13 people were injured before firefighters put out the blaze, police and the fire department said.
15 December 2021, 10:30 AM

Helicopter crash in India: Sole survivor Group Capt Varun Singh succumbs to injuries

Group Captain Varun Singh, who was the sole survivor of the Indian Air Force helicopter crash in which India’s first Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat was killed on December 8, succumbed to his injuries in a military hospital today.
15 December 2021, 09:01 AM

Taliban behind at least 72 extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan: UN

The UN has said there are "credible allegations" of more than 100 extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan since the Taliban took power in August, with most blamed on the country's new rulers.
15 December 2021, 06:48 AM

‘Bangladesh making giant strides in development since independence’

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today paid glowing tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, terming him as the guiding light for the people of his country.
14 December 2021, 14:02 PM

Covid vaccination: Bangladesh above only Afghanistan in South Asia

Bangladesh is above only Afghanistan among South Asian countries in Covid-19 vaccination, according to data of Asian Development Bank (ADB) Outlook Supplement as of December 2 this year.
14 December 2021, 09:39 AM

Indonesia rattled by 7.3-magnitude earthquake

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, with monitors briefly warning of the possibility of hazardous tsunami waves before lifting the threat.
14 December 2021, 05:13 AM

End to the Korean War agreed to ‘in principle’

South and North Korea, China and the US have agreed “in principle” to declare a formal end to the Korean war, almost 70 years after the conflict ended in a shaky truce, the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, has said.
13 December 2021, 18:00 PM

‘I slept soundly’

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said yesterday he’s sleeping soundly after becoming the first premier in nine years to inhabit the official residence, which is reputedly haunted by ghosts.
13 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Two cops killed, 12 others hurt

Two Jammu and Kashmir armed police personnel have died, and 12 have been injured after two terrorists attacked a police bus near a police camp at Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar yesterday evening, police said.
13 December 2021, 18:00 PM

‘Misogynist’ passage dropped after Sonia Gandhi flags it

India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) yesterday dropped a passage from its Class ten board exams question paper soon after Congress President Sonia Gandhi termed it as “blatantly misogynist” and asked the Education Ministry to apologise.
13 December 2021, 18:00 PM