Category: World News

Speakers at a discussion today said it was a rare example that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman united all the countrymen under an umbrella through a 18-minute historical speech at the Rescourse maidan in Dhaka.

By Kaustubh Kulkarni

The All Assam Students’ Union (Aasu) is going to burn copies of the bill of the proposed India-Bangladesh land swap deal across the state on Monday – the day when it is likely to be tabled in Parliament.

The Japanese port city of Nagasaki observed the 68th anniversary of the dropping of the second and last atomic bomb ever used in warfare by pushing the Japanese government to increase its efforts to promote the elimination on nuclear weapons.…

QUETTA — Gunmen shot to death six people and wounded 15 in an attack on a former provincial minister outside a mosque in southwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.

MANILA — The Philippine military says it killed three communist rebels in a clash in a province north of the capital, bringing the number of guerrillas who have died in combat in the past month to 23.

Holy Lailatul Qadr, the night of divine blessings and benediction, has been observed across the country on Monday night with due solemnity and religious fervour.   

A British mother has been hacked to death during a violent robbery in Bangladesh.

Jumatul Wida, the last Friday of Ramadan, was observed across the country on Friday with religious fervour and sanctity.   

International Al-Quds Day has been observed yesterday with humble respect on Muslim Ummah worldwide.

The head of Pakistan’s election commission says lawmakers have elected ruling party candidate Mamnoon Hussain as the country’s new president.  

A coach has plunged off a flyover in southern Italy leaving at least 38 people dead, rescue services say.

Supporters of the ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi have continued their defiance of the military-backed government, marching on three key points in Cairo.

Leading food policy experts, policymakers, and legislatures from five South Asian countries including Bangladesh are meeting on 30-31 July, in Kathmandu to discuss legal ways and solutions to fight food insecurity in the region where more than 304 million malnourished…

Prince William and his wife Kate have chosen three traditional royal names by calling their new-born baby boy George Alexander Louis, William’s office said on Wednesday.

An explosive-laden car targeted a shopping mall in the Bir al-Abed area, nearby Hezbollah’s so-called security square’, where many of the party’s officials live and have offices.

CAIRO – Saudi Arabia pledged $5 billion in grants and loans to Egypt’s new government on Tuesday, a second major promise of aid from the Gulf after the ouster of the country’s Islamist president.

Egypt’s new president says pro-reform leader Mohamed Elbaradei has not yet been appointed as interim prime minister despite earlier reports.

The United States and United Nations have expressed concern about Friday’s violence in Egypt following the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi, in which more than 30 people died.

GUWAHATI:  Chief minister Tarun Gogoi slammed BJP for not doing anything to settle territorial disputes with Bangladesh by taking control of ‘adversely possessed’ land in that country when the NDA was in power at the Centre.

The organisers of anti-government protests that brought millions of Egyptians into the streets this weekend gave Islamist President Mohammed Morsi until Tuesday afternoon to step down or else it will hike up its campaign, as protesters overran and ransacked the…

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Nineteen elite firefighters were killed in a raging Arizona wildfire stoked by record heat and high winds, marking the greatest loss of life among firefighters from a single U.S. wildland blaze in 80 years.

The office of the South African president says Nelson Mandela’s health improved overnight, and his condition remains critical but is now stable.

Afghan forces have taken over the lead from the U.S.-led NATO coalition for security nationwide, President Hamid Karzai announced Tuesday in a significant milestone in the 12-year war.

As part of public diplomacy initiatives, Bangladesh Embassy in Tokyo has opened a Centre for Bangla Language and Culture.

Gunmen have attacked a hospital in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, hours after an explosion on a bus killed at least 11 female university students.

Reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani has won Iran`s presidential election, securing just over 50% of the vote and so avoiding the need for a run-off.