- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
BANGLADESH will hold general elections on Sunday (7) and already, it has generated enough controversy. For several observers, the result of the election could be predictable as some major opposition parties have decided to boycott it. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main opposition party, has said along with its…
INDIA'S Adani Group received a huge relief on Wednesday (3) when the country's supreme court declined to order an investigation -- either by a special investigation team (SIT) or the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the allegations of manipulation of stocks brought against the conglomerate in a Hindenburg Research…
AUTHORITIES in Bangladesh on Wednesday (3) deployed the armed forces to assist the administration in holding the January 7 national election in a free, fair, and peaceful manner as tensions spiked in the country ahead of the polls being boycotted by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country's main opposition party.…
INDIA registered about 12 lakh (1.2 million) new cancer cases and 930,000 deaths in 2019, becoming the second highest contributor to the disease burden in Asia for that year, according to a new study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal. Researchers found that India, along with China…
DR SAVEERA Parkash, the first Hindu candidate to contest the general elections from the Buner constituency in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, has said that if elected, she would help build diplomatic bridges between Pakistan and India. A doctor by profession, 25-year-old Parkash last week filed her nomination…
FIVE people aboard a Japan coast guard aircraft died Tuesday (2) when it hit a Japan Airlines passenger plane on the ground in a fiery collision at Tokyo's Haneda airport. All 379 passengers and crew on board the passenger plane which burst into flames were safely evacuated, Japanese transport minister…
THE 16th summit of the BRICS bloc set to be held in Russia in October 2024 will be a significant moment in its history as it will be the first one since the expansion in membership to 10 nations. On Monday (1), Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United…
OVER 60 people from the western Indian state of Gujarat on board the Nicaragua-bound plane, which was sent back from France over suspected human trafficking, had agreed to pay Rs 60 lakh (£56,953) to Rs 80 lakh (£75,938) to immigration agents, who promised to cross into the US illegally after…
FORMER India pace bowler Venkatesh Prasad is not known for mincing words and he has now expressed a clear opinion on the upcoming consecration ceremony at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on January 22. The 54-year-old former cricketer, who got an invitation…
THE government of the western Indian state of Gujarat has decided to permit consumption of alcohol in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) located in its Gandhinagar district to attract global financial institutions, India's Hindu newspaper reported. The decision was taken last month, less than a month before the state…
