January2025

As New Delhi intensifies efforts to put an end to the protracted insurgency, Indian security forces killed at least 12 Maoist militants in central India, according to authorities. In their decades-long insurgency, the rebels claim to...

According to demining officials, two Cambodian deminers were killed while attempting to remove a decades-old anti-tank mine from a rice field that had previously been the scene of combat between government troops and Khmer Rouge soldiers....

Israel’s security cabinet was set to meet Friday after final details of a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal were ironed out, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, with the United States “confident” the truce would...

North Korea condemned on Friday joint military drills between South Korea, Japan and the United States held this week, threatening to respond by exercising its right to self-defence “more intensively”. The trilateral exercise was held after...

With full government funding, 57 trapped Bangladeshi people were repatriated from war-torn Lebanon today on an aircraft from Qatar. According to a foreign ministry press release here, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Expatriates’...

By encouraging positive communication and assisting Bangladeshi companies operating in Africa, Dhaka has redoubled its efforts to investigate prospects in that continent. According to a ministry press statement issued today, the foreign ministry had an interministerial...

Bangladesh and the Netherlands today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aiming mainly to reduce food wastage and promote a balanced food intake habit in the South Asian country as part of its efforts to address...

In a historic agreement with outgoing US President Joe Biden, Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer was one of several detainees freed Thursday, sparking tearful reunions around the communist island. In a last-ditch effort to solidify...

Environmental, Forest, and Climate Change Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan today called on everyone to adopt the ‘eco-centric’ mindset in order to preserve the environment, water, land, and all living things. “We have to be eco-centric in...

Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan was injured after an intruder attacked him with a knife at his residence in Mumbai, police said on Thursday.   Khan was hospitalised following the incident which took place around midnight at...