A Vesak Day presidential pardon in Sri Lanka has spiraled into a national controversy. Allegations of unauthorised prisoner releases have prompted arrests, political backlash, and calls for greater transparency from President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s administration. Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has demanded that the President publish the full list of...
Rabbi Alam, Chairman of Joy Bangla Brigade and vice president of Bangladesh Awami League, USA, has condemned the interim government's decision to hold general election in April 2026.
He said Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India amid severe protests against her government last year on August 5,...
The world’s largest container ship, MSC IRINA, on Monday arrived at the Vizhinjam International Seaport in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The berthing process for the vessel has begun at the port.
MSC IRINA is recognised as the world’s largest container vessel by TEU (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit) capacity.
Vizhinjam International Seaport, which is managed...
Pakistan has so far sent four letters expressing concerns over suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and urging India to reconsider the decision.
After the terrorist attack in Pahalgam on April 22, India’s Secretary of the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Debashree Mukherjee, wrote to Pakistan’s Water Ministry Secretary, Syed Ali Murtaza....
Nepal’s Defence Minister Man Bir Rai has expressed confidence that the Nepal-India Joint Mt. Kanchanjungha expedition will help further strengthen and take the relations between the two countries to a new height.
The expedition team members handed over the expedition flag to Defence Minister Rai and Chief of General...
In Bangladesh, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) issued warrants for the arrest of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal in a case filed over alleged crimes against humanity during the July-August mass uprising. A three-member ICT bench led by its chairman Justice Golam...
The Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a leading aid agency to assist thousands of displaced families, the ministry said in a statement
The aid exceeds 857,000 U.S. dollars and will benefit 5,148 displaced families, the statement said.
The agency will provide educational...
Indian and Nepali officials jointly laid the foundation stone for the construction of an agriculture promotion centre, being built with financial assistance from India, in the Sudurpashchim province for the collection and distribution of food grains.
Bharat Bahadur Rokaya, chairman of Swamikartik Khapar Rural Municipality, and Avinash Kumar Singh, counsellor,...
Nepal’s mountaineering community celebrated the conquest of the world’s highest mountain with a rally of climbers, guides and others who gathered for International Everest Day.
The event Thursday marked the 72nd anniversary of the first summit climb of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary...
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...
