DHAKA: She’s one of the most talked-about women in Bangladesh today and also one of the most admired and reviled. Tureen Afroz is the person responsible for sending the 1971 war criminals to the gallows […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The increasing incidents of ‘intolerance’ that have created an atmosphere of fear amongst the Muslim minority community and the rise of Hindu nationalist fringe elements dominating the headlines in recent times, have […]
DHAKA (TIP): A framed black and white photograph of bodies lying in what looks like a swamp hangs in the living room of Shyamali Nasreen Choudhury’s single-storied house at Dhaka’s upscale Dhanmondi. It has been […]
DHAKA (TIP): The Islamic State (ISIS) on Thursday claimed it was behind the shooting and injuring an Italian priest in Bangladesh, in the third attack on foreigners in the country by the dreaded group. The […]
NEW DELHI: Former RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn was on November 12 appointed as an Executive Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Gokarn will represent India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan […]
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (TIP): Omi Rahman Pial has changed homes five times in the last three months. He hasn’t seen his young daughter in weeks and is afraid to be seen on the streets of Dhaka, […]
RANCHI (TIP): With the recent census figures recording the Muslim population count at over 17 crore, the three-day RSS executive beginning on Friday is expected to adopt a resolution calling for a check in the […]
DALLAS (TIP): 14 South Asian detainees, from Bangladesh and India (known as the “LaSalle14”) at the LaSalle Detention Center started a hunger strike at breakfast time on October 19. All of the strikers are asylum […]
DHAKA (TIP): A Bangladesh court today jailed a former mayor of Dhaka for 13 years for corruption in absentia, a prosecutor said, a fresh blow to the beleaguered opposition which called the charges politically motivated. […]
The fifth generation of CCP leadership under Xi Jinping has de facto abandoned the Deng doctrine of keeping low profile internationally. China has become more ambitious of becoming a superpower and has been extending its sovereignty […]
India’s first nuclear test in 1974 called smiling Buddha in Pokhran desert was, for tactical reasons, characterized as “Peaceful Nuclear Explosion”. The second series of five nuclear tests in 1998 (Pokhran II) was again accompanied by a […]
DHAKA (TIP): Bangladesh has crowned a new national champion rat killer after his team eradicated more than 160,000 rodents in the past 12 months, officials said Oon Thursday. Farmer Abdul Khaleq Mirbohor won 20,000 Bangladeshi […]
Another major crisis is unfolding in Europe. Still struggling to find solutions for the Eurozone and Ukrainian crises, The European elite was hardly prepared to face a serious refugee and migration challenge. The problem has […]
DHAKA (TIP): Five militants of an al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Bangladesh were today charged with murder for hacking to death an atheist blogger who is among the four secular writers killed in brutal attacks this […]
DHAKA (TIP): Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused Pakistan, the US and Canada of non-cooperation in repatriating the fugitive convicted killers of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. “(Of the convicts’ sacked lieutenant colonels) Rashid, […]
On both sides of the India-Pakistan border, columns were written after the aborted National Security Advisers’ meeting. Most retired Indian diplomats and analysts argued that flip-flops on Pakistan betrayed the absence of coherence and strategy. Journalist-apologists […]
August 28, 2015 New York: Zee TV, the No.1 South Asian Network will now be available on Jadoo TV in Canada. The company has reached a subscriber licensing agreement for its flagship networks Zee TV […]
MALDA (TIP): Just when the Indian government is planning to take the import route to keep supply of onions on the common man’s platter steady, the pricey commodity is being sold at almost half the […]
Indian American attorney Richa Naujoks nee Gautam has been shortlisted for Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw Lawyer of the Year award. Celebrating groundbreaking pro bono projects undertaken by legal teams with NGOs and social enterprises around […]
President Pranab Mukherjee’s wife and First Lady of India, Mrs. Suvra Mukherjee passed away on Tuesday morning at 10.51 am. She had been ill for some time and was admitted to the hospital on Friday […]
DHAKA (TIP): Detectives in Bangladesh’s capital have arrested two suspects in connection with the killing of a secular blogger by suspected Muslim militants last week. Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Muntasirul Islam said Friday they picked […]
DHAKA (TIP): A leader of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party was sentenced to death today by a special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh for commiting murders and rapes, including that of Hindu women, during the independence war […]
Half-centuries from Ajinkya Rahane and Murali Vijay and four wickets from Bhuvneshwar Kumar saw India beat Zimbabwe by 62 runs in the second one-day international. India beat Zimbabwe in the second game to clinch the three-game series […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): When Harbhajan Singh was included in the Indian team for the one-off Test against Bangladesh in June, national selector Sandeep Patil had stated that they felt a second offspinner was needed considering the […]
DHAKA: At least 17 people were killed on Friday in a stampede during a handout of free clothes at a factory in the northern Bangladeshi city of Mymensingh, police said. The stampede erupted when hundreds […]
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