As Bangladesh boiled over- -Its Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled Dhaka after being in power for 15 years- she is now at an undisclosed location in India after landing at the Hindon airbase on Delhi’s outskirts, – Days of protests and violence, then saw mobs ransacking Hasina’s homes and Mujib’s memorial. Attacks on Hasina’s Awami League supporters…
A house is seen collapsed in Oosaki town, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan Friday, August 9, 2024, following Thursday’s powerful earthquake. | Photo Credit: AP Japan’s earthquake scientists say the country should prepare for a possible “megaquake” one day that could kill hundreds of thousands of people – although they stress the warning does not mean…
Between 1975 and 1981, Sheikh Hasina stayed in New Delhi after the brutal assassination of her father Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and several other members of her family. At that time, former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had sheltered the surviving members of the clan in New Delhi and tasked Pranab Mukherjee with their welfare. | Photo…
The services of Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express will remain cancelled on Tuesday, the Eastern Railway said, citing a message from the authorities concerned in Bangladesh, reported the PTI. According to the PTI, the services of Maitree Express, which has not been operational since July 19, will remain suspended on August 6, the ER said in a…
The Visa-on-Arrival can be utilised at six designated airports across India, simplifying the process for visitors from these countries and enhancing the convenience of travel. File | Photo Credit: PTI Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat provided an update that the Visa-on-Arrival facility would be available for nationals of Japan, South Korea,…
The Delhi Police said it has beefed up security at the Bangladesh High Commission in Chanakyapuri in the wake of developments in the neighbouring country, news agency PTI reported on Monday. “More barricades have been placed outside the commission and the number of police personnel deployed there has been increased,” a Delhi Police officer said….
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer. File | Photo Credit: AP British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called an emergency COBRA meeting of senior ministers and police chiefs at 10 Downing Street in London on August 5 after a weekend of riots across several cities in the country, which he termed a “far-right thuggery” that will…
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits a vandalized metro rail station at Mirpur 10, in Dhaka. | Photo Credit: PTI Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has tendered her resignation and has left the country along with her sister on August 5, 2024, an Army Source confirmed to Reuters. Also Read: Bangladesh protests LIVE Updates Earlier…
Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday claimed Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis had tried to save ex-Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh from arrest by asking him to level allegations against Deshmukh to topple the MVA government, reported news agency PTI. The BJP dismissed the charges, saying it was a strategy to defame Fadnavis,…
The disturbance that erupted in a quick series of escalating steps has come as the biggest threat for the Sheikh Hasina government that was expected to calibrate its global relations during this year. File image. | Photo Credit: AP Sunday’s violence in Bangladesh and the declaration of “long march” by the opposition BNP and the…
