Geopolitics
New Delhi: With the death toll due to coronavirus outbreak touching 6000 globally, leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) on Sunday attended a video conference where they deliberated on the possible measures needed to be adopted to prevent the virus from further damaging normal life in the region. more
Top UN court orders Myanmar to protect Rohingya from genocide

New York : Myanmar must take steps to protect its minority Rohingya population, the top UN court unanimously ruled on Thursday.

Myanmar willing to repatriate ‘verified returnees’ from Bangladesh

New York: Myanmar is prioritizing the repatriation of scores of people who fled violence in northern Rakhine state for Bangladesh, a senior official from the country said on Saturday, the ...

Abrogation of Article 370 is an internal matter of India: Bangladesh

Dhaka: At a time Pakistan is raging a war of words over the doing away of Jammu and Kashmir's special status, Bangladesh maintained the abrogation of Article 370 is entirely an intern ...

More than half a million Rohingya in Bangladesh get ID cards for first time: UN refugee agency

New York, Aug 10 (JEN): More than 500,000 Rohingya refugees who fled a brutal crackdown in Myanmar two years ago, have received identification cards that the UN insisted on Friday were cr ...

Climate-smart growth key to achieving upper-middle income status: World Bank leader tells on Bangladesh

Dhaka: The World Bank reaffirmed its continued support to Bangladesh to achieve the country’s vision of reaching an upper-middle income status through ensuring green growth, as the ...

Sheikh Hasina to serve as Bangladesh PM for 20 years now

Dhaka: Sheikh Hasina is all set to serve as the Bangladesh Prime Minister for 20 years now.

UN urges ‘restraint’ in Bangladesh’s post-presidential election violence

New York: The United Nations said on Monday that it is aware of violent incidents and reports of irregularities in Sunday’s general elections in Bangladesh.

UN calls for ‘peaceful, credible and inclusive’ election in Bangladesh

New York: In the run-up to Sunday’s general elections in Bangladesh, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for “an environment free of violence, intimidation a ...

Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina's Awami League wins election

Dhaka: The Awami League-led alliance will be forming the government in Bangladesh for the third consecutive time as Sheikh Hasina received an overwhelmining mandate in an election marked ...