Dhaka, Aug 13 (IANS) The ongoing energy crisis in Bangladesh has attracted public frustration as the government has ordered load shedding due to reduced power generation in the country, local media reported on Thursday.
Beijing, Aug 13 (IANS) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has described religion as superstition, a relic of feudalism, and a distraction from socialist modernisation. However, China has been tolerating and actively promoting Buddhism as it has become Beijing's tool for political control, a report has detailed.
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Germany's new Ambassador to India, Jasper Wieck, said on Thursday that he wants to serve as a "matchmaker, enabler and catalyst" to take friendship between the two nations to a new level.
Dhaka, Aug 13 (IANS) Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shama Obaed Islam, on Thursday said that no dates have been finalised for Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s visit to India, local media reported.
Islamabad, Aug 13 (IANS) Thousands of people took part in protest rallies held in several parts of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on Thursday, expressing full support to the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) and raise their voices against the brutal violence unleashed by the Pakistani forces over the past many months.
Kabul, Aug 13 (IANS) Afghan children are battling malnutrition as nearly one in 10 children under the age of five is suffering from acute malnutrition with the situation getting worse as large number of refugees return from Pakistan, local media reported.
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) Highlighting the miserable situation in the region, Palestinian Ambassador to India, Abdullah Abu Shawesh, said on Thursday that the health system in Gaza and the West Bank is on the brink of collapse.
Kabul, Aug 13 (IANS) Noting that Afghanistan has experienced a period of improved security, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday said that sustainable peace and prosperity need more than just an absence of conflict.
Dhaka, Aug 13 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Awami League has accused the ruling BNP government of pushing the country into an unprecedented energy crisis, saying it has continued the “fatal policy inertia” of the previous interim administration led by Muhammad Yunus. The party claimed that daily power outages lasting between six and 12 hours have made life increasingly difficult for people across the country.
New Delhi, Aug 13 (IANS) US Ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, said on Thursday that Quad nations are aligned in advancing closer collaboration and delivering results for a free and open Indo-Pacific.
