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John Bolton indicted over handling of classified information
By Devlin Barrett/Glenn Thrush and Minho Kim/New York Times New York, October 16 – John R. Bolton, the national security hawk and former adviser to President Trump who became one of his most outspoken critics, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on...
Pakistan Jamiat leader Fazlur Rehman calls for Pak-Afghan truce
Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan), October 17 (Express Tribune) – Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Thursday that fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan was not in the interest of either country and urged that, along with a ceasefire, there should also be restraint in...
There is no denying that Sri Lanka’s Sirima Bandaranaike was an incorruptible figure
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj/DailyFT Colombo, October 17- Twenty-five years have passed since the world’s first woman Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike passed away on 10 October 2000. Parliamentary elections were being held on that day and the grand old lady of Sri Lankan politics was returning to...
PVK – The tall versatile broadcaster who deserved more
15 August 1975. The Chennai TV station was inaugurated by V.C. Shukla, Minister of Information & Broadcasting. TN Governor, K.K. Shah, was another important guest. It was the height of Indira Gandhi’s emergency. Tamil Nadu was sheltering several leaders opposed to it. Leaders of the...
Student activists and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami could stump BNP and Awami League
By Kallol Bhattacherjee/The Hindu New Delhi, October 15 – Bangladesh’s political landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation ahead of the general election which is to take place in February 2026. Student advisers and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI), Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party, which extended support to...
Trump says he has authorized covert CIA action in Venezuela
License for the spy agency to conduct operations is the latest in a series of menacing U.S. steps against President Nicolás Maduro’s government.
Yunus the compulsive flyer – 14 foreign trips in one year
By Humayun Kabir Bhuiyan/Times of Bangladesh Colombo, October 15 – Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has been in office for just over a year. In that short span, he has managed 14 foreign trips—almost one every month. The Nobel laureate, once hailed as the face of...
UN Rights commissioner Volker Turk urges Bangladesh to substitute fairness and reconciliation for vengefulness and revenge
Geneva, October 15 (TOB)- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has welcomed the initiation of legal proceedings against those accused of enforced disappearances and torture under the previous regime in Bangladesh, calling it a critical step towards accountability. “This marks the first...
Trump says Egypt has less murders than some US cities
Cairo, October 14 (Egypt Today) – U.S. President Donald Trump described Monday, which witnessed his participation in the International Peace Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt as “a very important day.” “No body thought this was possible,” Trump added while he was speaking with the...
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