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

Myanmar military announces temporary truce as quake death toll passes 3,000

April 2, 2025

Myanmar’s governing military has declared a unilateral, temporary ceasefire in the country’s civil war to facilitate rescue efforts after last week’s powerful earthquake, as state television reported the death toll from the disaster had surpassed 3,000, Al Jazeera reports. MRTV said that the truce would last from Wednesday until April 22 and was aimed at […]Continue Reading

Tripura parties react to Bangladesh advisor Yunus’s ‘jibe’ on Seven Sisters

April 2, 2025

Ruling and Opposition parties in Tripura on Tuesday slammed Professor Muhammad Yunus, the chief advisor of Bangladesh’s interim government, for his remarks in China on India’s northeastern states and urged the Centre to send a “befitting reply”, The Indian Express reports, During his four-day visit to China in the last week of March, Yunus said […]Continue Reading

Pakistan army crosses Line of Control and fires at posts, India retaliates

April 2, 2025

Pakistan Army intruded into Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, violating the ceasefire agreement between the two nations. The violation took place at 1.10 pm on Tuesday and the Indian troops responded with “controlled and calibrated” retaliation, The Hindustan Times reports. The Nangi Tekri Battalion, operating under the Krishna Ghati Brigade, Continue Reading

ASEAN MPs look to bar Myanmar from BIMSTEC over human rights concerns

April 2, 2025

NEWS DESK The ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) on Wednesday strongly condemned the decision to invite the “illegitimate” Myanmar military junta to participate in the upcoming Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) meeting in Bangkok on April 3-4. APHR called on BIMSTEC member states, particularly Continue Reading