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Two fidayeen women led attacks through Balochistan targeting govt offices, banks As a 24-hour wave of synchronised violence swept through Balochistan over the weekend, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) released the photos of two women fidayeens — Asifa Mengal (23) and Hawa Baloch (24) — who carried out the attacks on symbols of Pakistan’s authority…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday urged over 61,000 newly-recruited personnel to reflect on the difficulties they faced while dealing with govt offices over the past 5-7 years, and to ensure citizens don’t encounter similar problems during their tenure.The PM was virtually addressing the 18th edition of Rozgar Mela at 45 locations. “India is…
MLK Day 2026: Will Banks, Schools, Post Offices and Markets Be Open in the US? As Americans prepare for Martin Luther King Jr Day on Monday, January 19, 2026, the US is once again pausing to honour the civil rights leader’s legacy. MLK Day, observed on the third Monday of January each year, is a…
A traffic policeman wears a mask as a layer of smog engulfs the city after air quality deteriorated across Delhi-NCR, in Gurugram. (PTI Photo) The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Gurugram has announced revised office timings and work from home measures in view of deteriorating air quality in the Delhi-NCR region. The Commission for Air Quality Management…
Kolkata: The immediate trigger of the violent attacks on two of Bangladesh’s leading dailies — Prothom Alo and The Daily Star — was their sustained focus on the 1971 Liberation War in the run-up to the Dec 16 Vijay Divas, say veteran journalists of the country. The two dailies have also ruffled feathers by taking…
Bangladesh witnessed widespread unrest overnight on Thursday after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent youth leader and vocal critic of ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, triggering violent protests in parts of Dhaka and attacks on major media houses.Hadi, 32, died at a hospital in Singapore on Thursday, where he had been undergoing…
Massive protests erupted in Bangladesh following the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi on late Thursday, with demonstrators torching newspaper offices and clashing with authorities, deepening fears of a further deterioration in law and order.Videos showed demonstrators vandalising the country’s largest newspaper, Daily Prothom Alo, along with another newspaper office Daily Star . The…
On a quiet spring morning in Boston, sunlight filtered through the tall windows of Baker Library at Harvard Business School. The building, long associated with case studies on management, labour and power, has become an unlikely symbol of a new question confronting the US workforce. On May 27, 2025, researchers inside the Harvard University campus…
To Be ‘Enforced Strictly’, Vital Services Exempt New Delhi: Delhi govt on Wednesday mandated offices in the capital – Delhi govt and private – to function with a maximum of 50% of their employees in the workplace and the rest working from home starting Thursday, as a measure to reduce pollution in the city.Delhi labour…
NEW DELHI: Restrictions on the movement of BS III petrol and BS IV diesel four-wheelers in Delhi, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar; work from home for 50% staff in govt and private offices in Delhi; hybrid mode for classes till IX and XI in Delhi; ban on construction and demolition activity, and barring…
