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IF TRIPLE TALAQ INVALID, SUGGEST WAY OUT: SC
IF TRIPLE TALAQ INVALID, SUGGEST WAY OUT: SC NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court on May 11 asked the Centre and Muslim women petitioners who have challenged the validity of triple talaq to suggest a possible way out if the […]
Asia
Six killed as Bangladesh police raid militant hideout
Six killed as Bangladesh police raid militant hideout DHAKA (TIP): Police in Bangladesh raided a militant hideout on Thursday sparking a clash in which five suspected militants and a fire fighter were killed in blasts that the militants set […]
India
INDIA
Lawyer says justice Karnan in Chennai, moves SC seeking recall of 6-month jail term order NEW DELHI (TIP): The Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to consider hearing a petition by Calcutta high court justice CS Karnan seeking a review of his conviction and […]
Asia
‘Bangladesh relies on BIMSTEC after SAARC failure’
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh is hopeful of forging regional cooperation through BIMSTEC after the failure of SAARC, a top aide of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Saturday. “In this context coming together in BIMSTEC is […]
Asia
Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina rejects Mamata’s plan, wants only Teesta
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina signed off her hugely successful India visit on Monday with a restructured strategic relationship with India, but rejected Mamata Banerjee’s proposal for sharing rivers other than the Teesta. […]
India
US, AMNESTY, PAK GROUPS BACK INDIA ON JADHAV
NEW DELHI (TIP): Pakistan Army’s decision to execute alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav seems to have found little support globally. Not only has Amnesty International slammed the decision but also the civil rights groups within […]
Asia
4 women die as ferry sinks in Bangladesh river, 18 missing
DHAKA (TIP): At least four people died and several remained missing after a ferry carrying about 80 passengers capsized on March 28 in Bangladesh‘s Panguchi River, police said. Rescuers recovered the bodies of four female […]
Sports News
Ashwin rewarded with wages of spin
CHENNAI (TIP): It was late August and R Ashwin was playing a T20 game against West Indies in Florida. On a small ground, the Indian bowlers had conceded 245, with Ashwin finishing with 2-39 off […]
Asia
Terror-hit Dhaka bakery returned to property owner
DHAKA (TIP): Four-months after Bangladesh‘s worst terror attack on an upscale cafe here in the capital’s diplomatic enclave, authorities have returned the eatery where 22 people, including an Indian girl, were killed during a bloody […]
Asia
Bangladesh arrests killer of secular blogger, publisher
DHAKA: An Islamist militant leader, the prime suspect in the brutal murders of a secular blogger and a publisher in Bangladesh, has been arrested from the national capital, police said today. Khairul Islam alias Fahim, […]
Asia
Bangladesh buys two submarines from China
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh took delivery on Nov 21 of its first submarines, bought from China, as it seeks to boost its naval power in the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh paid a reported $203 million for […]
Asia
Bangladesh arrests 900 in bid to save favourite fish
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh has arrested more than 900 fishermen and deployed the army to patrol its waterways after introducing a temporary ban on catching hilsa in an effort to save the hugely popular fish. Some […]
Politics
Ivanka Trump To Celebrate Diwali At Hindu Temple
In a move to woo minorities, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s daughter Ivanka Trump will celebrate Diwali with Indian-Americans during her visit to the Rajdhani Temple at Chantilly on Wednesday, campaign officials and community leaders […]
Asia
Bangladesh PM Shiekh Hasina may come this December
CAVELOSIM, GOA (TIP): Indian and Bangladeshi officials are working on a plan that could see Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visit New Delhi this December. Bangladesh foreign secretary Shahidul Haque told reporters that Hasina may visit […]
United States
NYC Council Members and Street Sellers advocate for ‘Vendor Power’
NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Hundreds of street vendorsgathered, October 13, atNew YorkCity Hall steps where NYCCouncil Member Mark Levine along with others formally announced the introduction of Street Vending Modernization Act (SVMA), a legislation that […]
India
Modi to meet Xi, Putin, Hasina
NEW DELHI (TIP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina over the weekend in a series of bilateral meetings on the sidelines […]
Asia
Bangladesh court clears student of restaurant attack charges
DHAKA (TIP): A Bangladesh court has cleared a university student of all allegations related to the restaurant siege three months ago in which 20 hostages were killed. Metropolitan Magistrate Nur Nabi passed the order Wednesday […]
Asia
Sheikh Hasina declares Pakistan a ‘defeated force’
DHAKA: Terming Pakistan a “defeated force”, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Islamabad’s protests over recent execution of a 1971 war crimes convict prompted Bangladesh to pull out of the SAARC Summit. “Pakistan is a […]
COUNTER TERRORISM
Hitting where it hurts: India must keep up the momentum
As I write these lines, Pakistan has strongly denied that the Indian army carried out surgical strikes across the LoC. It has claimed, indeed asserted, through the official army spokesman that the Indian action was […]
India
India has every right to hit out at Pakistan: Bangladesh
NEW DELHI (TIP): Bangladesh was the first neighbouring country to accept that India had “all legal and globally accepted right” to respond to any attack on her sovereignty, even as the United Nations urged India […]
Asia
Animal sacrifices turn Dhaka streets into rivers of blood
DHAKA (TIP): Large-scale animal sacrifices marking the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha combined with heavy rains have turned the streets of Bangladesh‘s capital into rivers of blood. Authorities in Dhaka designated several places in the […]
Asia
Don’t interfere: B’desh tells Pak on Ali remark
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh on Sept 4 summoned Pakistan’s envoy here to protest its “interference” in the country’s internal affairs after Islamabad said it was “deeply saddened” by Jamaat leader and 1971 war criminal Mir Quasem […]
Asia
Bangladesh Executes 5th Islamist Party Leader for 1971 War
NEW DELHI — Bangladeshi authorities executed a top Islamist party leader convicted of war crimes involving the nation’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan, AP reports. Mir Quasem Ali, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was […]
Asia
Bangladesh top court upholds death sentence of war criminal
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh‘s top court on August 31 rejected a final appeal by the leader of an Islamist party against a death sentence over atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, lawyers said, meaning […]