Dhaka | At least 43 people were killed in a deadly fire that broke out at a six-storey commercial building on Baily Road in Dhaka late on Thursday night. Of the deceased, 33 died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and 10 in Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, said Health Minister Samanta […]
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Indian-origin couple, 4-year-old twins found dead in California
New York | In a series of unfortunate incidents involving Indian-Americans, a couple and their four-year-old twins were found dead inside their home in San Mateo, California. Police are investigating the deaths of Anand Sujith Henry, 42, his wife Alice Priyanka, 40, and their sons Noah and Neithan as a murder-suicide. Officers responded at about […]
Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan and his wife get 14 years in jail
Rawalpindi | An accountability court on Wednesday sentenced former Pakistan premier Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 14 years imprisonment in the Toshakhana case, local media reported. The verdict comes a day after the PTI founder was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in the cipher case by a special court established under the […]
How Pakistan reacted to Ram Mandir consecration?
United Nations | Pakistan, in a letter to a UN official dealing with culture and civilisation, has warned that the consecration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya is a “significant threat” to “peace in the region”. “Pakistan condemns in the strongest terms the construction and consecration of the ‘Ram Temple’ on the site of the […]
Pakistan hits targets in Iran in retaliation to missile and drone strikes, 7 killed
Islamabad | Pakistan on Thursday struck “terrorist hideouts” in Iran’s Sistan-o-Baluchistan province, in response to Tehran’s attack two days ago. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad said that forces carried out “a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes and killed a number of terrorists during the intelligence-based […]
Pakistan takes action after Iran conducts air strike
Islamabad | Following Iran’s attack on its territory, Pakistan on Wednesday announced it was expelling the Iranian Ambassador while recalling its envoy from Tehran. “Pakistan has decided to recall its Ambassador from Iran and that the Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan who is currently visiting Iran may not return for the time being,” Foreign Office spokesperson […]
Pakistan reacts on ‘Missile Strike’ by Iran
Tehran/Islamabad | Iranian local media has reported that two important bases of the terrorist group Jaish al-Adl were destroyed in Pakistan during the missile attack. These two important bases housing Jaish ul-Adl terror group were targeted and destroyed by missiles and drones earlier today on Tuesday, Mehr News reported. Some other local media in Iran […]
This country struck bases of terror group in Pakistan
Tehran | Iran on Tuesday “obliterated two key strongholds” of a terror group in Pakistan through precision missile and drone strikes, a media report said. Significant bases belonging to the Jaysh al-Dhulm (Jeysh al-Adl) terrorist group on Pakistani soil were destroyed on Tuesday, Tasnim news agency reported, adding that these bases were “specifically targeted and […]
Withdraw troops by mid-March, Maldives tells India
Male | Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has asked India to withdraw its military personnel from the Indian Ocean archipelago nation by mid-March, officials said on Sunday afternoon. President Muizzu has formally asked India to withdraw its military personnel, estimated to amount to 88, by March 15, President’s Office’s Secretary, Public Policy, Abdulla Nazim Ibrahim told […]
‘No license to bully..’ Maldives President makes fresh jab at India
New Delhi | Amid the ongoing row, Maldives President Mohamad Muizzu, fresh from his China visit, made another indirect jab at India, accusing it of “bullying” his “small” nation. “We may be small but this doesn’t give them the license to bully us,” he said at a press conference on his return from China, according […]