Trump says Iran must give up dream of nuclear weapon or face harsh response

April 14, 2025

President Donald Trump said on Monday he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must abandon any drive for a nuclear weapon or face a possible military strike on Tehran’s atomic facilities, Reuters reports. “I think they’re tapping us along,” Trump told reporters after U.S. special envoy […]Continue Reading

China always with new Bangladesh: ambassador

April 14, 2025

NEWS DESK Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen has said that China is always with the new Bangladesh. ‘China is always with the people of Bangladesh, with the new Bangladesh,’ he at a drone show on Manik Mia Avenue in the capital Monday evening. The drone show was organised by the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy under […]Continue Reading

Three rebels, one Indian soldier killed in Kashmir gun battles

April 12, 2025

At least three suspected rebel fighters and one Indian soldier have been killed in separate firefights in Indian-administered Kashmir less than a week after Interior Minister Amit Shah visited the disputed territory, Al Jazeera and news agencies report. The Indian army said on Saturday that Indian soldiers killed three fighters in a gun battle that […]Continue Reading

Waqf (Amendment) Act will not be implemented in West Bengal: Mamata

April 12, 2025

The Waqf (Amendment) Act will not be implemented in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday amid violent protests in the state, the Press Trust of India reports. Banerjee said the law was made by the Centre and answers should be sought from it. “My sincere appeal to people of all religions, please […]Continue Reading

Israeli forces have completed encirclement of Gaza’s Rafah, military says

April 12, 2025

Israeli forces have completed the encirclement of Gaza’s Rafah, the military said on Saturday, part of an announced plan to seize more areas of the enclave, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population, Reuters reports. The military has issued repeated evacuation warnings to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians across Rafah since it resumed operations in Continue Reading

Chinese nationals captured fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Zelenskiy says

April 8, 2025

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting for Russia in eastern Ukraine, potentially threatening a fragile peace effort in the three-year-old war, Reuters reports. Beijing is a close diplomatic ally of Moscow but is not publicly known to have directly aided in the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion, which Continue Reading

Navy detains 214 Myanmar nationals in Bay trying to illegally reach Malaysia

April 8, 2025

COX’S BAZAR CORRESPONDENT, HNILA CORRESPONDENT, TEKNAF CORRESPONDENT & BANGLADESH NAVY PRESS RELEASE Bangladesh Navy on Tuesday detained 214 displaced Myanmar citizens from a fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal as they attempted to migrate illegally to Malaysia. The Navy’s offshore patrol vessel BNS Durjoy intercepted the boat — FV Kulsumah — around 44 nautical […]Continue Reading

Israeli military changes initial account of Gaza aid worker killings

April 7, 2025

The Israeli military has provided new details that changed its initial account of the killing of 15 emergency workers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah last month but said investigators were still examining the evidence, Reuters reports. The 15 paramedics and emergency responders were shot dead on March 23 and buried in a shallow […]Continue Reading

Iran wants indirect talks with US, warns regional countries over strikes against it

April 7, 2025

Iran is pushing back against U.S. demands that it directly negotiate over its nuclear programme or be bombed, warning neighbours that host U.S. bases that they could be in the firing line if involved, a senior Iranian official said, Reuters reports. Although Iran has rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for direct talks, it wants […]Continue Reading

India’s opposition says will challenge Muslim properties bill in top court

April 4, 2025

NEWS DESK India’s opposition parties say they will challenge a recently passed bill that overhauls laws governing Muslim religious endowments in the country’s Supreme Court, Al Jazeera reports. The waqf amendment bill, hailed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “major milestone for reform and transparency”, was passed by the parliament’s upper house early on […]Continue Reading