Islamabad/New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) The United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) recent statement to Pakistan to rethink its population dynamics is timely as well as constructive, but a sustained policy action towards it is going to be the real challenge, according to a media report.
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) A Rs. 50-crore project undertaken by the now-deposed Sheikh Hasina government to preserve the history of Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971, which included video interviews of about 15,000 participants, will be shelved now, said reports.
Dhaka, Jan 14 (IANS) With Bangladesh gearing up for the February 12 general elections, cracks have begun to surface within the Jamaat-e-Islami-led alliance, as disagreements over seat-sharing continue to intensify despite a deadline to finalise the arrangement, local media reported on Wednesday.
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) The United States carried out more air and drone strikes abroad in the first year of President Donald Trump's second term than during former President Joe Biden's entire four-year term, said a survey published.
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Al Qaeda has been using high-end technology to carry out operations in India, which has made investigations more challenging. Probe agencies have found that servers are being hosted in multiple countries to carry out propaganda and radicalise the people.
Dhaka, Jan 14 (IANS) With growing political violence ahead of the February elections in Bangladesh, a leader of the radical Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami, was killed at his residence in Dhaka, local media reported on Wednesday.
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) President Donald Trump said the US economy was “rocketing” on the back of a manufacturing revival, defending his rollback of electric vehicle mandates and predicting that robotics would play a growing role in addressing labor shortages.
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) US federal courts across multiple states have ruled against immigration authorities in a series of cases involving Indian nationals, finding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unlawfully detained them without bond hearings or due process protections required under federal law.
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) As part of its push for more fair and balanced trade with APEC partners, the United States hosted a regional roundtable of the APEC Alliance for Supply Chain Connectivity (A2C2) in Mexico City.
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) The United States has designated the Egyptian, Lebanese and Jordanian branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as "terrorist organisations", citing in part what it described as their support for the Hamas terror group, in a move that is set to impose sweeping sanctions on one of the Arab world's oldest and most influential Islamist movements.
