Agencies

DHAKA, Aug 11: The chief justice of Bangladesh’s top court has said he agreed “in principle” to resign after an ultimatum from protesters, days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to neighbouring India.

CHENNAI, Aug 11: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan’s son, Junaid Khan, made his Bollywood debut without much fanfare in Yash Raj Films’ Maharaj. However, Junaid isn’t limiting himself to acting; he is also trying his hand at production.

São Paulo, Aug 10: A plane has crashed in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, killing all 61 people on board.

CARACAS, Aug 9: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has signed a decree blocking access to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, for 10 days following a public spat with owner Elon Musk.

DHAKA, Aug 7: As the situation in Bangladesh deteriorates following Sheikh Hasina's resignation, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President, AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, has urged India to arrest the former Prime Minister and her sister, Sheikh Rehana, and return them to Bangladesh, as reported b...

DHAKA, Aug 6: The President has dissolved the current Parliament and ordered the release of Begum Khaleda Zia, former PM and leader of the main opposition Party Bangladesh Nationalist, from House arrest.

PUNE, Aug 5: A 22-year-old worker from Nepal died of burn injuries that he suffered in an explosion at a manufacturing firm in Maval taluka of Pune district, said the police.

BEIRUT, Aug 4: Amid heightened regional tensions in West Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom on Saturday (Aug 3) urged their citizens to leave Lebanon. The US embassy in Lebanon asked all of its nationals to leave the country immediately using "any available ticket."

BANGLADESH, July 21: What began as a protest against admission quotas for sought-after government jobs snowballed this week into some of the worst unrest of Sheikh Hasina's tenure. Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday scaled back a contentious quota system for government job applicants, marking a partia...

KATHMANDU, July 19: A massive global IT failure on Friday caused widespread disruptions, grounding planes, interrupting TV coverage, and affecting banks, hospitals, and financial markets. The failure led to flight delays worldwide, card machine breakdowns, a pause in news updates from the London Sto...