Monday | February 16, 2026 | Dhaka
BSS :Shanghai recorded a steep climb in Covid-19 cases Tuesday as spreading anxiety in the Chinese city of about 25 million prompted panic-buying at supermarkets.Millions endured a second day of lockdown after authorities effectively...
BSS :No one in Russia is considering the idea of using nuclear weapons, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told PBS.The interviewer asked whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had suggested in his earlier statement that he...
BSS :Gunmen attacked a passenger train in northwest Nigeria Monday night, opening fire after detonating explosives on the track, but were repelled by troops without causing casualties, a security source and friends of passengers...
BSS :The United States is sending six US Navy radar-jamming aircraft to Germany to enhance NATO capabilities, the Pentagon said Monday.The EA-18G Growler aircraft are “not being deployed to be used against Russian forces...
Dawn .com :Opposition in Pakistan on Monday submitted two separate no-trust motions against Prime Minister Imran Khan and Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar with the aim to shake the country’s power structure.Two delegation teams...
Reuters :Sri Lanka has sought an additional credit line of $1 billion from India to import essentials amid its worst economic crisis in decades, two sources said on Monday, as the Indian foreign minister...
Reuters :North Korea will continue to develop “formidable striking capabilities” that cannot be bartered or sold for anything, leader Kim Jong Un said, according to state media on Monday, as he visited workers involved...
Reuters :US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a show of unity with Middle East allies at a rare Israeli-hosted summit on Monday, hoping to allay their misgivings about an emerging Iranian nuclear deal...
Al Jazeera : The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education will not last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has said, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is to be “empowered”.The armed group, now...
BSS : When Covid-19 ripped through India in 2020-21, several million people are thought to have died. Desperate efforts to stem the pandemic hurt the battle against another huge killer tuberculosis.India is the home...
BSS : Hong Kong announced on Sunday that it ould halve the period for which it suspends international flights that bring in passengers infected with Covid-19, as the aviation industry increasingly voices alarm over...
Al Jazeera :Rights group Amnesty International has described India’s repeated denial of bail to jailed Muslim activist Umar Khalid as a “big blow” to those exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful...