Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay/ Aljazeera The BJP lost in three Hindi-speaking states but that does not necessarily mean they will lose the 2019 national vote. On December 11, liberals in India finally had reason to smile. The governing Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) electoral losses in state elections across India proved that stopping the juggernaut of the Hindu…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam’s motorcade was intercepted by unknown miscreants when he was on his way to attend an election rally in Bandar Upazila of Narayanganj yestreday afternoon. “Fakhrul’s motorcade was intercepted by setting fire to tyres and bamboos on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Madanpur area,” said Sayrul Kabir…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Election Commissioner Rafiqul Islam yesterday said the ongoing violence among political parties ahead of the December 30 national election is nothing but a part of the political culture, reports The Daily Star. “Stray incidents of violence are taking place ahead of the election but the situation has not yet taken into…
WION In a first of its kind, the Kaski District Court here on Wednesday sentenced a rape convict with life imprisonment. The court pronounced the sentence to 27-year-old rape convict Kusum Poudel on charges of raping and murdering a 10-year-old girl in Pokhara. A single bench of Justice Yogendra Prasad Shah made the historic verdict…
DOT Desk Pandit Arun Bhaduri, one of the maestros of Indian classical music, unfortunately passed away in a hospital in kolkata on december 17 at the age of 75. With his demise, an era of north Indian classical music came to an end. I had the fortune of witnessing his glorious performance live, when he…
NDTV From his hut on the edge of Japan’s “Suicide Forest”, Kyochi Watanabe, gatekeeper of the forest blasts John Lennon’s “Imagine” into the night hoping that music can lift people from their despair before it’s too late. The 60-year-old musician has been waging an eight-year battle to banish the vast forest’s morbid reputation by reaching…
NDTV Australia’s largest city was picking up the pieces on Friday after a series of lightning and hailstorms pummelled cars with ice blocks the size of tennis balls. The authorities issued a severe storm warning, but that was not enough to prevent damage that is already running into the tens of millions of dollars. “As…
Sayeed Muhammad of DOT Hundreds of Indonesian Muslims have gathered outside the Chinese embassy in Jakarta, protesting the treatment of members of Muslim ethnic Uighur minority in China’s far western Xinjiang region. A UN panel of human rights experts said in August it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China…
Hindustan Times Pakistan has turned down the demand from the Indian side for a land swap between the two countries to make Kartarpur a part of India. “Absolutely not”, Pakistan foreign office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said in Islamabad on Thursday, responding to a media query if Pakistan would consider handing over the Kartarpur land to…
Arab News The UN Security Council called a vote for Friday on a resolution that would authorize the use of UN monitors to observe the implementation of a cease-fire in Yemen’s important port of Hodeidah and the withdrawal of rival forces from that area. Passage could offer a potential breakthrough in the four-year civil war…