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Inqilab Mancha spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi will be laid to rest beside Bangladesh’s national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam at his family’s request, Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) leader Fatima Tasnim Zuma said on Friday. Hadi was a prominent figure in the recent Bangladesh protests that led to the ouster of former prime minister Sheikh…
NEW DELHI: A Hindu youth was beaten to death by a mob and his body set on fire in Bangladesh’s Mymensingh district on Thursday night following allegations of blasphemy, BBC Bangla reported, amid continuing unrest in the country and growing concerns over attacks on minorities and media institutions. The incident took place in the Dubalia…
Bangladesh descended into widespread unrest overnight after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a prominent youth leader of the country’s 2024 pro-democracy uprising. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka late Thursday and early Friday, demanding justice for Hadi, who died in a Singapore hospital after succumbing to gunshot injuries sustained in an…
File Pic: Harendra Singh with the team. CHENNAI: The reasons surrounding the abrupt resignation of the senior women’s team coach Harendra Singh in the middle of a training camp in Bengaluru do not seem to add up. Ostensibly having resigned for “personal reasons,” and his silence thereafter, many within the women’s hockey set-up allude to…
Fans faced a two-hour delay for the first single, ‘Rebel Saab’, from Prabhas’s upcoming film ‘The Raja Saab’ due to technical glitches in Kannada and Malayalam versions. Director Maruthi and producer SKN addressed the agitated crowd, apologizing for the issues encountered during the pan-India release. Prabhas will next be seen in the upcoming comedy-horror movie…
NEW DELHI: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Kerala’s electoral roll is expected to be severely affected on Monday after multiple trade unions announced that Booth Level Officers (BLOs) across the state will boycott work. The decision follows the death of a BLO in Kannur, whose family and colleagues allege he was under intense work…
Representative AI image generated by Denny Five Indian nationals working on electrification projects in Mali were kidnapped by gunmen near Kobri in the country’s west, a company official and a security source confirmed on Friday.According to the security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the abduction took place on Thursday as armed men intercepted…
People protest in the streets of Arusha, Tanzania, on election day (Picture credit: AP) Tanzania’s main opposition party, Chadema, has claimed that around 700 people have been killed in three days of violent election-related protests across the country. As quoted by news agency AFP, Chadema spokesperson John Kitoka said on Friday that “as we speak,…
NEW DELHI: Authorities in Ladakh’s Leh district have reimposed restrictions over concerns about potential threats to public peace and order, officials told PTI. This comes just a day after restrictions were lifted following a 22-day curfew triggered by violent protests demanding statehood and Sixth Schedule status for Ladakh. The earlier unrest left four people dead…
Military unit make their way to the Presidency to make announcement (AP) A colonel from an elite military unit in Madagascar on Tuesday declared that the armed forces were taking control of the Indian Ocean nation, hours after parliament voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina, who has reportedly fled the country amid a growing military…
