Foreign Affairs Advisor Hossain to meet EAM Jaishankar in Muscat: Bangladesh media reports

Dhaka (IANS) Touhid Hossain, the Foreign Affairs Advisor to the interim government in Bangladesh led by Muhammad Yunus, is expected to meet External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on the sidelines of the Indian Ocean Conference being held in…

Trump says he will announce 25 pc duties on steel, aluminum imports; threatens more to come

New York (IANS) US President Donald Trump has said that he will announce a 25 per cent duty on all steel and aluminum imports, a long-standing contentious category of trade for India and the US. President Trump said on Sunday that he will announce…

Operation Devil Hunt sees 1,300 arrests in nationwide crackdown on violence in Bangladesh

Bangladesh New Delhi (IANS) Bangladesh's security forces have arrested over 1,300 individuals till Monday in a major crackdown that began on Saturday that is aimed at quelling a new wave of violence that has rocked the country for the last few…

Kremlin spokesman 'neither confirms nor denies' report of conversation between Putin, Trump

Moscow (IANS) Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday that he could "neither confirm nor deny" reports of a conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump regarding Ukraine, media reported.

"As the…

7.6-magnitude quake strikes Caribbean, tsunami warnings issued

Washington (IANS) A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck the Caribbean Sea, triggering tsunami warnings for multiple countries, US monitoring agencies reported. 

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the quake struck at a shallow…

Kaliningrad transitions to independent power operation as Baltic states exit Russian grid

Moscow/Vilnius (IANS) The Kaliningrad region, a Russian enclave bordered by the Baltic states, has transitioned to independent power operation following the withdrawal of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia from the unified energy ring with Russia and Belarus,…

'India has no role to play': MEA summons Bangladesh Envoy after Dhaka lodges protest over Sheikh Hasina's speech

New Delhi (IANS) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday summoned Bangladesh's Acting High Commissioner to India, Md. Nural Islam, expressing concerns over continued negative remarks by Bangladeshi authorities regarding India.

MEA…

Flagged mistreatment issue, people should be treated with dignity: MEA on deportation row

New Delhi (IANS) Emphasising that people should be treated fairly and with dignity, including those being deported, India on Friday said that it has flagged issues of mistreatment of illegal migrants deported from the United States, earlier this week.

Trump signs executive order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court

Washington (IANS) President Donald Trump has signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC), accusing it of "illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel". 

The measure places financial…

'Should be strongly condemned': India slams attack on Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's residence in Dhaka

New Delhi (IANS) India on Thursday expressed anguish over the vandalism of the residence of Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and said the "act of vandalism" should be strongly condemned. 

In response to media queries regarding the vandalism…