January2025

The most well-liked politician in Pakistan, Imran Khan, faces a 14-year prison sentence this month in a case that his party claims is being used to coerce him into remaining silent. Long a source of annoyance...

Three people on board a small police training aircraft were killed on Wednesday in a crash in northern Iran, state media reported. “A light training aircraft crashed near the city of Rasht on Wednesday due to...

The Police Reform Commission (PRC) today submitted its report to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus proposing amendment and replacement of 22 existing laws for making the “people’s friendly” the country’s main law enforcement agency.   “We have...

Months into a campaign to try to weed out illicit miners, authorities in South Africa announced Wednesday that 60 bodies had been removed from an abandoned gold pit. After locals expressed concern that more than 100...

Citing the “hostile” reactions of the governments of France, Italy, and the Netherlands to Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration for a third term as president, Venezuela announced on Tuesday that it would reduce the number of authorized ambassadors...

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday that Russia had attacked Ukraine’s energy sector with more than 70 attack drones and 40 missiles during the course of the night. “This strike featured around 40 missiles, including ballistic...

Tuesday’s strong winds have the potential to reignite and intensify the massive fires that have ravaged areas of Los Angeles, killing at least 24 people and possibly permanently altering the landscape of the second-largest city in...

Supradip Chakma, the CHT Affairs Adviser, stated today that bamboo would be the primary driver of the hill areas’ economic growth. “We want to increase the production and use of bamboo for building the strong economic...

The land ministry’s software has been upgraded to make land services more user-friendly and online land management less complicated. According to a news release from the ministry today, the software has been modified to enhance online...

Today, President Mohammed Shahabuddin called for increased Japanese investment in Bangladesh’s tourism, ICT, medical, and other developing industries. He made the call as Shinichi SAIDA, Japan’s new ambassador to Bangladesh, gave the president a presentation of...