Saturday | January 03, 2026 | Dhaka
PTI, Balasore :India on Monday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable strategic missile Agni-IV, with a strike range of about 4,000 km, from a test range off the Odisha coast.“The test firing was a total success....
BBC Online :A court in Vietnam has sentenced 30 people to death over heroin smuggling in what is said to be the largest such trial ever held in the country.The trial, over the smuggling...
TNN, Kolkata :A 21-year-old woman, working in one of the biggest malls in Kolkata, was allegedly gang-raped while returning home after work on Sunday evening.Even before the Madhayamgram gang-rape incident could die down, the...
BBC Online :The ousted president of Egypt, Mohammed Mursi, faces a fourth trial, on charges of insulting the judiciary.The Islamist leader and 24 other politicians, media personalities, activists and lawyers will be tried on...
BBC Online :Tens of thousands of Ukrainian pro-EU demonstrators have gathered in the capital Kiev in defiance of new laws aimed at curbing public protests.They braved freezing temperatures to pack into the city’s Independence...
CNN :At least 28 people were injured in two explosions at an opposition rally in the Thai capital of Bangkok on Sunday, authorities said.A local journalist is among the injured, said Paradon Patthanathabut, the...
BBC Online :President Barack Obama has said he will not let controversial surveillance by US intelligence services undermine Washington’s ties with Germany.Speaking to Germany’s ZDF TV, he indicated that US bugging of Chancellor Angela...
BBC Online :A proposed new Egyptian constitution has been backed by 98.1% of people who voted in a referendum, officials say.Turnout was 38.6% of the 53 million eligible voters, the election committee said. The...
Reuters, Gaza :Israel said it carried out an air strike on Sunday against a Gaza militant who it blamed for cross-border rocket attacks last week, and Palestinian medics said two people, including a 12-year-old,...
BBC Online :Scores of people have been evacuated from a heritage village in southern Norway as a raging fire threatens its unique wooden buildings. Flames spread rapidly after the fire began overnight in a...
BBC Online :US Secretary of State John Kerry has welcomed a decision by Syria’s main political opposition group to attend next week’s peace talks in Switzerland.His praise for the Syrian National Coalition’s “courageous” move...
PTI, Mumbai :Eighteen people were killed, most of them due to suffocation, and 40 injured in a stampede when thousands of people gathered to pay last respects to the spiritual leader of the Dawoodi...