Hundreds of government employees on Monday briefly locked the main gate of Bangladesh Secretariat, the heart of the administration, in the capital Dhaka, intensifying their protests against a new service law which allows easier dismissal of officials for misconduct.   According to eyewitnesses and media reports, officials and employees of...
Ten Indian climbers are among over 100 mountaineers honoured in Nepal on Tuesday to commemorate the first successful ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.   Minister for Tourism, Culture and Civil Aviation Badri Pandey honoured Nepalese and international Everest summiters ahead of the International Everest Day...
Muhammad Yunus-led Bangladesh’s interim government has reversed its decision to support a UN-backed humanitarian corridor into Myanmar’s Rakhine State after a sharp rebuke from Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman, who termed it a “bloody corridor”. The general’s intervention came after Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain unilaterally announced Bangladesh’s support for the proposal,...
Maldives Foreign Minister Dr. Abdulla Khaleel has strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Pahalgam. He expressed Maldives’ solidarity and firm support to India in the fight against terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. Dr. Khaleel is on a three days visit to India. During his visit, Dr. Khaleel...
Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo and Prime Minister Mark Phillips have reiterated their country’s unwavering support to India’s fight against terrorism, as an all-party parliamentary delegation led by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor met them to brief them on India’s position on the issue.   The Indian delegation arrived here on...
Bangladesh’s de-facto prime minister has threatened to step down if political parties cannot agree on reforms that citizens await with growing impatience, a top student leader has said, deepening uncertainty in the wake of deadly protests last year. Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, took over as interim head of...
Reinforcing the strong health partnership between the two nations, India and Nepal held a significant bilateral meeting in Geneva on Tuesday (local time) on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78). The meeting, held between India’s Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava and Nepal’s Minister of Health and Population...
Nepal’s political leaders, lawmakers, and foreign policy experts have urged the country to seek a more prominent role in its relationship with India, particularly in the wake of the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. “We are so tempted that we should create a space in New Delhi out of the...
The National Cadet Corps (NCC) has reached a significant milestone as its expedition team successfully scaled Mount Everest. The team comprised 10 NCC cadets along with four Officers, two Junior Commissioned Officers, one Girl Cadet Instructor and 10 Non-Commissioned Officers. The ten cadets include five boys and five girls....
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) reported that Afghanistan, with 4.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), ranks fifth globally in terms of internal displacement. In its latest report, the center stated that in 2024 alone, 1.3 million people in Afghanistan were displaced due to natural disasters, the highest number in...