Dhaka, July 3 (IANS) Radical Islamic group Jamaat–Char Monai alliance has openly vowed to model Bangladesh after Taliban-ruled Afghanistan -- banning women from public life, enforcing burqas, curtailing minority rights, and pushing jihadi training nationwide -- the Awami League said on Thursday.
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut on the International Space Station, is working to develop a brain-computer interface in the orbital lab, said NASA on Thursday.
Tel Aviv, July 3 (IANS) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Thursday confirmed that it had eliminated the terrorist cell responsible for launching rockets towards Sderot and Ibim from the Gaza Strip, as part of its ongoing operations to neutralise threats across the region.
Quetta, July 3 (IANS) Six men were forcibly disappeared from multiple districts of Balochistan, adding to the series of enforced disappearances, which a Baloch human rights organisation on Tuesday said have been carried out by the Pakistani forces.
Washington, July 3 (IANS) The Pentagon has said that US strikes last month on three key Iranian nuclear facilities have set back Tehran's nuclear program by as much as two years.
Dhaka, July 3 (IANS) The Awami League has expressed its strongest protest and outrage against the "unlawful and unconstitutional" six-month prison sentence handed down in a "false and farcical case" against former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Dhaka, July 3 (IANS) Another Awami League leader has been arrested by the police in Bangladesh on murder charges linked to the July 2024 protests.
New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) All Pakistani accounts on X have been blocked in India after briefly being accessible in the past few days, official sources confirmed on Thursday.
Dhaka, July 3 (IANS) A group of 88 expatriate journalists, writers, researchers, cultural and rights activists has raised grave concern over the "continued torture of journalists and suppression of free speech" in Bangladesh under the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government.
New Delhi/Washington, July 3 (IANS) As the US reciprocal tariffs deadline looms, hectic parleys are currently underway in Washington, DC, between officials of India and the US on finalising the proposed interim trade deal in the next couple of days.
