Moscow, Dec 24 (IANS) Three people, including two police personnel, were killed in an explosion in Moscow on Wednesday, according to the press service of the Russian Investigative Committee, local media reported.
Dhaka, Dec 24 (IANS) Exiled Bangladeshi author and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen on Wednesday said that the interim government's chief advisor Muhammad Yunus' tenure has been marked by grave and widespread human rights violations across the South Asian nation.
Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) Government hospitals in the city of Hyderabad in Pakistan's Sindh province continue to struggle to provide even the basic healthcare facilities to patients due to acute shortage of medicines, diagnostic facilities and functional medical equipment, majorly due to alleged poor oversight by officials of the health department, local media reported on Wednesday.
Dhaka, Dec 24 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Awami League on Wednesday alleged that deaths in jail and police custody have risen sharply across the country under the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, turning “detention into a source of fear rather than protection.”
Kabul, Dec 24 (IANS) More than 3,000 Afghan refugees have been repatriated from Iran and Pakistan in a single day, a Taliban official said on Wednesday.
Quetta, Dec 24 (IANS) A portion of the railway track was damaged after a bomb planted on the track exploded near Dera Murad Jamali in Pakistan's Balochistan, while police defused another explosive device, local media reported on Wednesday.
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Ties with Bangladesh, which have been strained since the ouster of Sheikh Hasina, worsened with radical mobs targeting the minority Hindus in the country. Over the last week, one got to witness gut-wrenching scenes whereby the minority community in the country was brutally targeted.
Dhaka, Dec 24 (IANS) As Bangladesh's political landscape turned volatile in recent days, Sharif Omar Hadi, the brother of slain Sharif Osman Hadi, has accused a vested quarter within the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of orchestrating the killing of his brother to derail the February 2026 polls, local media reported.
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Reuben Gauci, High Commissioner of Malta to India, who also holds charge of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and serves as ambassador in Nepal, has voiced concern over the political situation in Bangladesh, emphasising the implications for both regional stability and the sizable Bangladeshi community in his country.
Quetta, Dec 24 (IANS) Leading Baloch human rights defender, Mir Yar Baloch, on Wednesday accused Pakistan's deep state of the escalating incidents of mob lynching, hate-driven violence, and targeted attacks against the Hindu community in Bangladesh.
