Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has briefed Dhaka-based foreign diplomats and representatives of the international agencies on the terror attack that killed over 20 people, mostly foreigners. Officials say the briefing on Tuesday at the State Guest House Padma began with a minute’s silence in remembrance of the victims. Diplomatic security was the key…
Read moreOne of the five the Islamic State reportedly claimed to be the gunmen who launched Friday’s terror attack in Dhaka has been identified by an Awami League leader as Rohan Ibne Imtiaz, the son of another leader of the ruling party’s city unit. Rohan has been recognised as the son of SM Imtiaz Khan Babul,…
Read moreLOOKEAST DESK A Buddhist mob has reportedly set a mosque on fire in northern Myanmar in a fresh act of violence against Muslim minorities in the Southeast Asian country. A mob wielding weapons razed a Muslim prayer hall in northern Myanmar, the second attack on a mosque in just over a week as anti-Muslim sentiment swells…
Read moreBangladesh commandos have launched a fierce assault on the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone of Gulshan early on Saturday to free the hostages holed up there since Friday night. 12 hostages have been freed, 5 terrorists killed and one captured by the security forces, an official of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) told…
Read moreSAMIR PURKAYASTHA Don’t turn forest into coffins — try bamboos for making them. That is what the leading youth group in India’s north-eastern state of Mizoram is asking the state’s majority Christian populace to do. Instead of using wood from forest which would mean hacking down trees like teak and sal, the Young Mizo Association (YMA) has tied up with the…
Read moreThe gunmen, who laid siege at a Dhaka restaurant have killed 20 hostages, says a spokesperson of the Bangladesh Army. “We have found 20 bodies and all of them were murdered in the night using sharp weapons,” Brigadier General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury told a media briefing on Saturday. He said that 13 people, including a…
Read moreZHENGLI HUANG / XIANGMING CHEN “The US destroys and China builds,” was how a taxi driver from Ethiopia in Washington DC responded to Chen’s question about China’s main activity in Africa. Building is what China has been doing, on a massive scale, with projects of all kinds sited in African cities and spread across this…
Read moreExercise Jalrahat Elite Special Forces of Indian Army and Indian Navy in association with Indian Air Force, NDRF, SDRF jointly taking part at the flood rescue demonstration on the mighty Brahmaputra using various rescue boats and techniques, helicopters, aircraft during rescue operation practice as part of National Level Exercise for Flood Relief following National Disaster Management Plan…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT The Assam government has defended the Centre’s decision to auction 12 oilfields in the state, amid stiff opposition from All Assam Students Union (AASU). But oil industry sources and analysts doubt whether any major global company would come for the global bidding of the micro and mini oilfields in Assam. The powerful AASU, which…
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West Bengal | Who Will Toll The Bell For BJP In Birbhum ?
Special Correspondent February 17, 2026 THE chapters in the controversial multi–crore teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal are yet to… Read more…
Rohingya Immigrants A Big Burden On Bangladesh | Hasina
PRIME MINISTER Sheikh Hasina calls Rohingya immigrants a big burden on Bangladesh, wants India to take more of them. Meanwhile,… Read more…
