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Nepal foreign minister Arzu Rana Deuba begins five-day visit to India

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said Deuba's visit is a testament to the "unique and close" relationship between the two countries

Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim to begin three-day visit to India on Monday

Ibrahim, to be accompanied by a high-level delegation, begins the visit on Monday. It would be his first visit to India as the prime minister

Nearly a third of army has been sent to Ukraine border: Belarusian prez

Lukashenko said the Belarusian-Ukrainian border was mined "as never before" and that Ukrainian troops would incur huge losses if they tried to cross it

Israeli GDP grows at 1.2% in April-June period as Gaza war rages on

First-quarter GDP was revised to 17.3% annualised from a prior estimate of 14.4%, bouncing back from a contraction of 20.6% in the fourth quarter of 2023

EAM calls on Crown Prince of Kuwait to discuss bilateral relationship

Jaishankar arrived here on Sunday on a day-long visit. He was received by his Kuwaiti counterpart Abdullah Ali Al-Yahya on his arrival in the country

Nepal's new foreign min embarks on 5-day India visit to strengthen ties

Nepal's new Foreign Minister Arzu Deuba Rana is visiting India at the invitation of Jaishankar, the foreign ministry said in a statement. This is Rana's first official visit to a foreign country

Political analysts in Bangladesh urge India to refix ties with Dhaka

They (India) need to be on the right side of history and express their desire to cooperate with the people of Bangladesh

Hezbollah fires salvo of rockets at northern Israel after deadly strike

A commander in Hezbollah's Radwan force was killed in the IDF's attack on south Lebanon, the military said in a post on X

Sudan paramilitary fighters kill 85 in attack on central village: Residents

Describing the hourslong attack, three residents said hundreds of RSF fighters stormed the village on Thursday, looting and burning houses and public properties

Another murder case filed against ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina

Hasina, 76, fled to India on August 5 after she was forced to resign following a massive protest by students against a quota system in government jobs

Interim govt committed to hold fair elections in Bangladesh: Yunus

Yunus, the Chief Advisor of the interim government, gave this assurance while addressing the third Voice of Global South Summit which was hosted by India in a virtual format

Multilateral bodies didn't solve critical issues faced by global order: EAM

"It is an undeniable fact that even as the global order faced critical challenges, solutions did not emerge from the multilateral domain," he said, calling for revitalising multilateralism

Deadly violence persists in Gaza despite mediators calling for a truce

The attack came days after the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza announced the death toll surpassed 40,000 in the 10-month-old Israel-Hamas war

Voice of Global South summit: Yunus calls for redesigning financial system

It should not be a one-way path for wealth. We must ensure financial services for all people, particularly women and youth. We can learn from each other how this can be done successfully, he added

Muhammad Yunus sees sports as unifying force to solve social problems

Paris 2024 and its partners have decided to make the Olympic and Paralympic Games a responsible event in economic, social and environmental terms

Dhaka University students protest in solidarity with Kolkata demonstrators

Students marched across the campus with placards reading: Poshaker Bahanay Par Pabena Kono Pisach and Proshno Jokhon Sadhinotar, Bangla Jure Oyaddedar, among others

Nearly 650 people killed in recent spate of violence in B'desh: UN report

Available public reports by media and protest movement itself claimed that between Jul 16 and Aug 11, more than 600 people were killed due to violence following Anti-Discriminatory Student protests

India a global leader in breakthrough innovations: Bill Gates on I-Day

Bill Gates flagged off the first India Day celebrations in the Greater Seattle area as Consulate General of India as Seattle's Guest of Honor, on India's 78th Independence Day

No bilateral talks with India, status quo in ties post-Aug 2019: Pakistan

The ties between the two countries nosedived after India abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution, revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcating State into two Union Territories

Yunus expands his team as 4 more advisers join B'desh interim government

The new advisers are Wahiduddin Mahmud, an economist, Ali Imam Majumdar, former cabinet secretary, Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan, former power secretary, and Lt Gen Jahangir Alam Chowdhury