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Imran Khan calls for nationwide potests after 17-year sentence

Islamabad: More than 1,300 police officers and security personnel were deployed across Rawalpindi on Saturday to maintain law and order after former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan urged his supporters to launch…
Bangladesh ‘rejects’ MEA comments over demonstration in New Delhi

Dhaka: Bangladesh on Sunday rejected India’s comments over demonstration in front of its high commission in New Delhi, questioning how the protesters were allowed to come so close to the installation in…

9 killed, 10 wounded in South African pub shooting

Johannesburg: Nine people have died, and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday,…
Rs 2 crore embezzled from India’s Geneva mission; CBI books accounts officer

New Delhi: The CBI has launched a probe into the swindling of more than 2 lakh Swiss francs (around Rs 2 crore) at India’s Permanent Mission in Geneva by a former accounts…
DOJ removes Epstein files, including Donald Trump image

New York: At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day…
Travel risks rise as US tightens scrutiny of non-immigrant visas

Washington: The United States has tightened scrutiny of non-immigrant visa holders, triggering delays in visa interviews, restricting where applicants can seek visa stamping and expanding social media vetting — developments that an…
Security tightened at Indian Assistant High Commission Office in Bangladesh

Dhaka: Security has been strengthened at the Indian Assistant High Commission office and the visa application centre in Bangladesh’s Sylhet city in the wake of heightened tensions following the death of prominent…

Macaulay was a foot soldier in the massive Western civilisational onslaught

If we cannot erase the impact of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s Minute of 1835, 190 years after what he wrote, then 1,900 years later, too, we will continue to blame just one individual…
Pak PM Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi sentenced to 17 years in corruption case

Islamabad: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi were sentenced to 17 years in jail each by a court on Saturday in the Toshakhana 2 corruption case. Khan,…
Funeral held for Bangladesh’s uprising leader Sharif Osman Hadi

Dhaka: Bangladesh held the funeral of prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi on Saturday drawing a large number of people in the capital amid extra-tight security after his death triggered unrest across…
UEFA fines Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv football club over fans’ racist chants

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has imposed a €20,000 fine on Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv and prohibited the club’s fans from attending the next away match, after the…
After two-year stay, gamer leaves China hotel room piled with garbage

China: A man, reportedly addicted to online gaming, left piles of garbage in the room and washroom after his two-year stay in an online gaming hotel located in China. According to reports,…
7 arrested over man’s lynching in Bangladesh

Dhaka/ New Delhi: Seven people have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a Hindu man in Bangladesh, the interim government announced on Saturday. Dipu Chandra Das, 25, was lynched to…
Awami League condemns attacks on media offices, flags crisis in Bangladesh

Dhaka: Bangladesh’s Awami League party strongly condemned a series of nationwide attacks targeting media offices, cultural institutions, and diplomatic missions, describing them as a “planned terrorist attack.” The party asserted that such…
US launches airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria

Washington: The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two US troops and an…