‘QUADER TO UNDERGO BYPASS SURGERY NEXT WEEK’
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader will undergo a bypass surgery in Singapore next week, party sources said.
Speaking to The Daily Star today, a highly-placed party insider requested anonymity...
POLICE WITHDRAW PERMISSION, ARUNDHATI’S TALK NOW AT NEW VENUE
Chobi Mela has moved the event, which is to be attended by Indian author Arundhati Roy, to an alternative venue.
The Indian author’s talk “Utmost Everything” was scheduled to be...
BAZAR: AFGHAN BANKS CAN OPEN BRANCHES IN CHABAHAR PORT
The Central Bank officials said private banks can open their branches in the Chabahar Port in Iran.
A spokeswoman for the Central Bank said that two months ago, Iran's standards...
INDIA PLOTTED DANGEROUS ATTACK WITH ISRAELI HELP
India with the backing of Israel and at the peak of its standoff with Pakistan had last week planned a “dangerous attack” to be executed from its Rajasthan airbase,...
PEOPLE HAVE RIGHT TO KNOW CASUALTIES IN IAF AIR STRIKES: SHIV SENA
The Shiv Sena Tuesday said India's citizens have the right to know about the casualties in the air strike on a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) camp in Pakistan and that revealing...
OIC HAS ENDORSED PAKISTAN’S STANCE ON KASHMIR: QURESHI
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that a resolution passed by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in its recent meeting at Abu Dhabi has endorsed Pakistan’s stance...
Is Bangladesh ready for the fourth industrial revolution?
One in every three young persons in Bangladesh is unemployed. That makes up for 34.3 per cent of the youth. It is the state-run Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)...
Qatar, Russia pledge to expedite efforts for Afghan peace
Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani has said that his country is coordinating efforts with Russia to expedite the peace process in Afghanistan.
In a joint presser with...
ICAO red-flags Bhutan over aviation safety oversight
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) after its validation mission in August last year has red-flagged Bhutan for lack of effective implementations, especially in the Air Navigation Services (ANS).
ICAO...
Maldive’s defence minister admits concern over invasion rumors
Defence Minister Mariya Ahmed Didi has stated that the defence force is concerned over some comments that are being made at a series of gatherings at Dharubaaruge hall in...
Challenges not over yet, keep your guard up, Air chief tells PAF personnel
Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan, on Monday cautioned the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) officers that they should keep their "guard up" as the...
BRI and S Asian geopolitics: The Bangladesh factor
Though South Asia occupies only 3.4% of the world’s land surface area, it is home to 24% of the world population. Each country in South Asia is in an...
After India loses dogfight to Pakistan, questions arise about its ‘vintage’ military
It was an inauspicious moment for a military the United States is banking on to help keep an expanding China in check.
An Indian Air Force pilot found himself in...
Resurging Pakistan makes Modi’s India annoyed
On 26 February, at midnight around 3.30am, the so-called largest democracy scraped a series of articles of the United Nations Organisation’s charter specifically related to the respect given to...
Peace, stability threatened in South Asia
Peace and stability in South Asia have once again been put into question by the conflict between perennial rivals India and Pakistan. The terrorist attack on Indian forces in...
Air strikes against Pakistan dominate political discourse in India as election draws near
The air strikes against Pakistan continued to dominate the political discourse in India as the ruling and opposition parties took potshots at each other over different issues, in what...
Taliban sources report progress on troop withdrawal
The US negotiators and the Taliban members have reached to some kind of agreements on the modality of foreign forces withdrawal from Afghanistan and the guarantee that Afghanistan’s territory...
QUADER REACHES SINGAPORE FOR TREATMENT
-- Patient's blood pressure improved, diabetes under control
-- Patient's condition better than yesterday but not out of danger
-- Doctors did their best here, says Indian cardiologist Shetty
The air ambulance...
Pakistan issues order to seize assets of all banned outfits under UN sanctions regime
The federal government of Pakistan on Monday issued an order to streamline the process for implementation of sanctions against individuals and entities designated by the United Nations Security Council,...
BNP TO MEET HOME MINISTER OVER KHALEDA’S ILLNESS
A high-profile BNP delegation is going to meet home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Tuesday afternoon to discuss party chairperson Khaleda Zia's health condition and her treatment, reports UNB.
BNP standing...
China supports Russia’s initiative to act as intermediary between Pakistan and India
China supports Russia’s initiative to act as a diplomatic intermediary between India and Pakistan to de-escalate the situation between the countries, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said at...