Dhaka, Dec 8 (IANS) In yet another instance of escalating internal conflict within the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), at least ten people were injured after clashes broke out between two factions over the party’s nomination for a constituency in Gazipur district, local media reported.
Bangkok, Dec 8 (IANS) The Thai Army said on Monday it deployed fighter jets in response to Cambodian attacks that left two soldiers killed and four wounded. Meanwhile, a Cambodian defence spokesperson said Thai soldiers on Monday opened fire on Cambodian armed forces for the second straight day, adding that Cambodia did not fire back.
Paris, Dec 8 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation wrote to the United Nations Special Rapporteur, raising alarm over the ban imposed on Bangladesh’s Awami League party and the suspension of its registration by the country’s Election Commission.
Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) Indian American entrepreneur and community leader Sunny Reddy was unanimously elected Co-Chair of the Michigan Republican Party, marking a breakthrough moment for the Indian diaspora in one of America's most competitive political battlegrounds.
Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) The 2026 US defence bill intensifies Washington’s pushback against China, tightening restrictions on Chinese military-linked companies and expanding political, economic, and military support for Taiwan.
Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) India's engagement with Russia during last week's PM Modi-Putin summit is rooted not in anti-Western sentiment but in a strategic calculus shaped by China's assertiveness, according to a leading technology entrepreneur and geopolitical commentator.
Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) US President Donald Trump raised the possibility of antitrust hurdles for Netflix's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros., warning that the streaming giant's already dominant scale "could be a problem."
Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) Congressional leaders released the compromise version of the fiscal 2026 National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), setting the stage for a vote this week on the annual legislation that has become a central pillar of US defence and national-security policymaking for more than six decades.
Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) The latest US defence authorisation bill assigns India a key role in Washington’s Indo-Pacific and nuclear strategies, directing sustained consultations on India’s nuclear liability rules and placing New Delhi among a select group of partners shaping a new defence industrial architecture in the Indo-Pacific region to meet the China challenge.
Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) A newly declassified Central Intelligence Agency memorandum from March 1983 shows the Reagan administration's spymasters believed a sharp fall in world oil prices could reshape the strategic balance in South Asia, warning that any move by Washington to step up military aid to Pakistan risked undermining a "recent thaw in US-Indian relations" under then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
