Bangladesh Ship Rescues Indian Fisherman One of 25 missing fishermen was rescued alive by a commercial vessel of Bangladesh near Chittagong on Wednesday morning after five days. Crew members of the Bangladesh vessel who rescued him could not believe that he managed to float in the rough sea and sustain without water, food and life…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | NATIONAL Investigation Agency (NIA) busted a bomb manufacturing unit in Bengaluru, Karnataka and recovered grenades and an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) from the location. Apart from the incriminating material, three persons from Bangladesh were also detained from the location. The NIA received the information about the bomb manufacturing unit through a Burdwan…
Read morePTI | NEW DELHI TATA Motors said in a statement it has received an order for over 200 units of its sports utility vehicle HEXA from Bangladesh Army. The company said it has won the contract for the four–wheel drive version of the model. Tata Hexa is being made available exclusively for the use…
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | INDIAN intelligence agencies are probing a deep–rooted nexus involving underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and a London–based former Colonel of the Bangladesh army. The agencies suspect that the Bangladeshi army officer, allegedly involved in gun running, has links with Dawood Ibrahim’s underworld activities operating from India’s eastern borders. What prompted the intelligence agencies to probe the nexus…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy blamed West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for the clashes in North 24 Parganas’ Sandeshkhali on Saturday that claimed three lives, and demanded an investigation into the violence by anti–terror probe agency NIA. After the clashes in North 24 Parganas district’s Sandeshkhali on Saturday night, bodies of…
Read moreSWADESH ROY | TARIQUE Rahman, son of Khaleda Zia, the leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is now in exile in London. He received two punishments from the apex court of Bangladesh. In a money laundering case, he got seven years’ jail, and in the dangerous 21 August case, which was also an attempt to…
Read moreZAW NAING OO | A court in Myanmar has issued an arrest warrant for a nationalist Buddhist monk, Wirathu, on a charge of sedition, police said. Wirathu is known for his rhetoric against minority Muslims, particularly the Rohingya community, but he has also been critical of the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi and…
Read morePTI | THE Indian Navy has successfully test–fired a Medium Range Surface to Air missile (MRSAM), achieving a significant milestone to enhance its anti–air warfare capability, the defence ministry said Friday. The test–firing of the missile was undertaken on the western seaboard by Indian naval ships Kochi and Chennai. “The Indian Navy achieved a significant…
Read moreSUBIR BHAUMIK | CHINA’s lifting the ‘technical hold’ on the UN 1267’s committee’s resolution to declare Jaish–e–Muhammed chief Masood Azhar a ‘global terrorist’ is a well thought move on the South Asian chessboard, part of a much larger diplomatic effort to preserve peace in the region to avoid any major adverse impact on its ambitious…
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