DHAKA (TIP): A Bangladeshi court on March 28 issued arrest warrants for former prime minister Khaleda Zia and 27 other opposition party leaders on accusations they instigated an arson attack on a passenger bus during […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Immigration authorities have begun transporting South Asian detainees to Florence, Arizona, as a staging ground for impending mass deportation. Many of the Muslim migrants from Bangladesh being transported were participants in the […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh‘s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a top Islamist leader for war crimes during the country’s independence struggle against Pakistan in 1971, paving the way for his execution. Chief Justice […]
Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan scored a swashbuckling fifty to help his side crush Bangladesh by eight wickets and clinch the Asia Cup Twenty20 cricket title on Sunday. Dhawan, who made just 19 in his previous […]
Resident Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has warned in several recent interviews that unless peace talks with Pakistan and the Taliban produce results in the next few months, his country may not survive 2016. Afghanistan is barely standing, […]
Washington has no shortage of politicians struggling to be seen as a maverick. But Tulsi Gabbard isn’t one of them. As one of the first two female combat veterans elected to US Congress and also […]
Feb 24: The Union HRD Minister lashed out at the Opposition in Lok Sabha saying there was no question of an apology from her government in the suicide case of Rohith Vemula and the controversy […]
A top Hindu priest was decapitated by attackers in northern Bangladesh Sunday, 21st Feb 2016, and two worshippers wounded, police said, in the latest assault targeting minorities in the Muslim-majority nation. Two assailants armed with pistols […]
DHAKA (TIP): Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, head of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was ordered on Monday to appear in court to answer the charge of sedition, a move her supporters said […]
The city of Shillong has a lot to offer —from museums, cafés and markets that are perfect for those evening strolls, to old-school cathedrals and lakes (yes, in the middle of the city). Embed from Getty […]
Lt Gen (Retd) J F R Jacob, who played a key role in the 1971 war which liberated Bangladesh from Pakistan, died here today at the age of 92 due to “old age complications”. Jacob, […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh‘s top court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence on the leader of the largest Islamist party for crimes during the country’s 1971 independence struggle, paving the way for his execution within months. […]
DHAKA (TIP): In a tit-for-tat, Pakistan has expelled a Bangladeshi woman diplomat and asked her to leave the country by Thursday, days after a Pakistani woman diplomat was sent packing over accusations of having links […]
Building upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s initiative of inviting all SAARC leaders to his swearing-in ceremony in May 2014, the neighbourhood continued to be the primary focus of India‘s foreign policy in 2015. While relations with […]
DHAKA (TIP): Amid sporadic violence, thousands of people today queued up in Bangladesh to vote in the first-ever local body polls on party lines, joined by opposition BNP which had boycotted the 2014 general elections. […]
DHAKA (TIP): She’s one of the most talked-about women in Bangladesh today and also one of the most admired and reviled. Tureen Afroz is the person responsible for sending the 1971 war criminals to the […]
DHAKA: She’s one of the most talked-about women in Bangladesh today and also one of the most admired and reviled. Tureen Afroz is the person responsible for sending the 1971 war criminals to the gallows […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The increasing incidents of ‘intolerance’ that have created an atmosphere of fear amongst the Muslim minority community and the rise of Hindu nationalist fringe elements dominating the headlines in recent times, have […]
DHAKA (TIP): A framed black and white photograph of bodies lying in what looks like a swamp hangs in the living room of Shyamali Nasreen Choudhury’s single-storied house at Dhaka’s upscale Dhanmondi. It has been […]
DHAKA (TIP): The Islamic State (ISIS) on Thursday claimed it was behind the shooting and injuring an Italian priest in Bangladesh, in the third attack on foreigners in the country by the dreaded group. The […]
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