Dhaka, Oct 6 (IANS) Bangladesh's Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) A M M Nasir Uddin said on Monday that there is no other option other than to conduct the next national election, slated for February 2026, in a fair manner as it may shape the country's future, the local media reported.
Dhaka: Over the last weekend, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) Secretary General, Mia Golam Parwar, while speaking as the Chief Guest at the members’ reunion (1977-2025) organised by Khulna Metropolitan Branch of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), stated that now is the best time to send "Deen", or the righteous and pious, to the Parliament. He underscored that all those who were once associated with the student politics should now become active again.
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Two groups of Indian parliamentarians will head to New York in the coming days as part of the country's Non-Official Delegation to the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). This follows the decision taken by the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revive the longstanding tradition of sending parliamentary delegations to the UNGA, allowing Members of Parliament (MPs) to contribute to international discourse.
Dhaka, Oct 6 (IANS) As many as three people died in Bangladesh due to dengue in the past 24 hours till Monday morning, raising the total number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in the country in 2025 to 215, local media reported.
Tokyo, Oct 6 (IANS) Japan's former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, who was elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in a vote on Saturday and is now set to become the first female Prime Minister of the country on October 15, is likely to appoint former LDP Secretary General Toshimitsu Motegi as the next foreign minister.
Quetta, Oct 6 (IANS) A man was forcibly disappeared by Pakistani security forces from his home in Balochistan's Khuzdar district amid an escalating wave of enforced disappearances across the province, a leading human rights organisation stated on Monday. Paank, the Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department, has identified the victim as Asad Ullah.
Dhaka, Oct 6 (IANS) Dipu Moni, the former Foreign Affairs, Education and Social Welfare Minister of Bangladesh and Joint Secretary of the Awami League party, lashed out at the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus on Monday, accusing authorities of depriving detained opposition leaders of medical treatment.
New Delhi/Stockholm, Oct 6 (IANS) A report by the Stockholm Centre for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA‑IPA) at the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), has urged governments, research institutions, and civil society to place the Tibetan Plateau at the core of international climate policy and has come down heavily on China’s state‑centric model of infrastructure expansion, militarisation, and resource extraction, which it states has transformed one of the world’s most fragile environments into a zone of extreme ecological stress.
Islamabad, Oct 6 (IANS) As heavy rains and strong winds wreaked havoc across several districts of Pakistan's Punjab province over the past 24 hours, four people were killed and 28 others injured due to roof and wall collapses, according to the Rescue 1122 spokesperson, local media reported on Monday.
Kabul, Oct 6 (IANS) The United Nations has called for urgent humanitarian aid for thousands of earthquake-impacted families in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province as the winter season approaches, local media reported on Monday.
