05-01-2024 DHAKA: Troops deployed across Bangladesh on Wednesday amid fears of violence ahead of a national election which the main opposition party is boycotting. Soldiers travelled in armoured vehicles to temporary camps set up across the capital Dhaka to help the civil administration maintain peace and security. The Bangladesh Nationalist …

05-01-2024 UNITED NATIONS: Members of the UN Security Council on Wednesday called on Yemen’s Houthis to halt their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, saying they are illegal and threaten regional stability, freedom of navigation and global food supplies. Addressing the council’s first formal meeting …

05-01-2024 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court said the Adani Group does not need to face more investigations beyond the current scrutiny of the market regulator, a major relief for the conglomerate hit hard by a US short-seller’s allegations of wrongdoing. The Securities and Exchange Board of …

05-01-2024 ADDIS ABABA: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Tuesday it was open to an immediate, unconditional ceasefire through talks with the Sudanese army as it signed a declaration with the Taqadum civilian coalition and invited the army to do the same. A nine-month war in Sudan, which …

05-01-2024 BEIRUT/ CAIRO/ GAZA: Israeli forces kept up their assault on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and told civilians to leave a refugee camp in the north of the Palestinian enclave after the war reached into Lebanon with the killing in Beirut of the Hamas deputy leader. Israel has neither …

05-01-2024 COPENHAGEN: Europe experienced stark weather contrasts on Wednesday, with extreme cold and snowstorms disrupting transportation and closing schools in Scandinavia while strong winds and heavy rain in Western Europe caused flooding and at least one death. Temperatures fell below minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) in the …

04-01-2024 TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed a “harsh response” to a bomb attack on crowds marking the anniversary of spymaster Qasem Soleimani’s assassination by the US. The attack in Kerman in southern Iran killed 84 people and wounded many more. The death toll was revised down …

Notification on January 11 Last date for filing of nominations – January 18 Scrutiny of nominations on January 19 Last date for withdrawal of nominations – January 22 Polling on January 29 Hyderabad‘ 4 Jan 2024 (PMI) The Election Commission of India has released the election schedule for two MLC …

Mumba’4 Jan 2024 : Amid the saffron fury and street protests over his claim that Lord Ram was non-vegetarian, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Jitendra Awhad sought to defend his remark citing a research paper on Valmiki Ramayana by IIT Kanpur. However, he also sought forgiveness from the people, saying …

Murshidabad ‘West Bengal – 4 Jan 2024]: Sending out tell-tale hints of a further deepening of cracks in the Opposition bloc — INDIA — as the Lok Sabha elections near, the West Bengal unit of the Congress on Thursday took a swipe at the Trinamool Congress, blaming the ruling party …