Dhaka, Dec 24 (IANS) Press Secretary of Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday reiterated the interim government’s stance that the Awami League party will not be allowed to contest the upcoming election scheduled to be held in Bangladesh in February, next year.
London, Dec 24 (IANS) A woman has been jailed in the United Kingdom (UK) for 21 years and six months after the National Crime Agency (NCA) officers found 85 kilogrammes of Pakistani heroin in her bedroom.
Paris, Dec 24 (IANS) French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday criticised US visa restrictions against former European Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton and four other European figures, calling the measures as "intimidation and coercion" aimed at undermining European digital sovereignty.
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) Bangladesh's former Member of Parliament (MP) A F M Bahauddin Nasim said on Wednesday that the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government is turning the South Asian country into a terrorist state and making attempts to hand over the country's reigns to Pakistan.
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Ankara, Dec 24 (IANS) The black box and cockpit voice recorder of a private jet that crashed near Turkey’s capital Ankara, killing Libya's army chief and others on board, were recovered on Wednesday from the wreckage of the aircraft, according to Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya.
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.”
