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Bangla Press Desk: An Air India Express flight from Saudi Arabia’s Dammam to New Delhi with 40 people, including crew, onboard made an emergency landing at Ahmedabad airport on Monday after a cr...
Noman Sabit: Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced today that a 60-year-old Queens Village man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a pattern of persistent and escalating sexual abuse against his daughter including intercourse. The man i...
Bangla Press Desk: Iran denied any negotiations were taking place with the United States after President Donald Trump said new talks would begin Monday in an effort to end their war, now in its sixth month.The rebuttal by the Iranian foreign ministry...
Bangla Press Desk: Gunmen kidnapped at least 52 people, including children, in a weekend attack on a village and military base in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, local sources told AFP on Monday.Kidnappings have become a major source of income for...
Bangla Press Desk: An up and rising Indian politician on Monday handed a major blow to the ruling BJP in a by-poll to the Bihar state assembly.Prashant Kishor scripted landmark success on his personal electoral debut, achieving an unassailable lead d...
Bangla Press Desk: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the kingdom’s de facto leader, in a phone call with President Donald Trump on Saturday raised concerns about the US potentially escalating the conflict with Iran, according to a person...
Bangla Press Desk: US President Donald Trump said late on Saturday he would hold off on a fresh attack on Iran as long as a deal could be reached quickly to halt Iran's nuclear ambitions and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.Iran and "other Middle Ea...
Bangla Press Desk: Russian air defence systems intercepted 635 Ukrainian drones overnight, the defence ministry said Sunday."During the past night, air defence duty assets intercepted and destroyed 635 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehic...
Bangla Press Desk: Sri Lanka deployed hundreds of troops and elite commandos on Sunday to contain riots at an overcrowded prison in which an inmate was killed and six others wounded, police said.Deputy police inspector-general Sanjeewa Medawatt...
Bangla Press Desk: A fast-moving wildfire neared the US city of Spokane on Saturday, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate as Washington state declared an emergency over one of its worst fire seasons on record.More than 200,000 acres (80,9...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan rescue teams resumed a high-altitude search on Saturday for seven climbers missing after a powerful avalanche on one of the world's highest peaks, with the remains of three mountaineers recovered.The avalanche...
Bangla Press Desk: The US State Department will make permanent a visa bond programme that could require applicants from Bangladesh and 49 other countries, most of them in Africa, to post bonds of up to US$20,000 when applying for US visas...
Bangla Press Desk: Pakistan on Friday indicated that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be invited to Islamabad for the 2027 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit, saying all member states, including India, will receive inv...
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