On the evening of Aug 5, Dhaka bookshop owner Shahadat Zaman put out a Facebook post saying he would be at the Rajarbag Kali temple for a nightlong vigil. Soon, some 25 locals cutting across religious groups offered to join him. Hours earlier, Sheikh Hasina had resigned as Bangladesh PM and fled the country, even…
DHAKA: The head of Bangladesh’s interim govt, “chief adviser” Prof Muhammad Yunus, condemned on Saturday the attacks on minority communities, calling them “heinous”. “Are they not people of this country? You have been able to save the country, can’t you save some families,” he asked as the Hindu community held its biggest street demonstration yet,…
NEW DELHI: Now urban households earning up to Rs 9 lakh annually will be eligible for interest subsidy scheme (ISS) on home loan for a property measuring not more than 120 sq metre under the newly approved PM Awas Yojna (Urban) scheme, which officials said is aimed at ensuring financial relief for “deserving” beneficiaries —…
NEW DELHI: Amid signs of a thaw in India-Maldives ties for the past few months, President Mohamed Muizzu met visiting India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar on Saturday and, as they presided over a ceremony for the inauguration of water and sanitation projects spread over 28 islands, called India one of Maldives’ closest allies and invaluable…
MUMBAI: Hindenburg Research, the US short-seller that in Jan 2023 had alleged extensive corporate fraud by the Adani group using offshore vehicles, on Saturday night cited whistleblower documents claiming that Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch, with husband Dhaval, had also invested in the same offshore vehicles.Sebi chief and her husband, through 360 One WAM (IIFL’s…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee (File photo) A volunteer who works alongside Kolkata police personnel was arrested on Saturday for rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor at city’s RG Kar Hospital the previous day.Sanjay Roy was held barely six hours after a seven-member special investigation team (SIT) was set up. The 35-year-old…
A volunteer who works alongside Kolkata police personnel was arrested on Saturday for rape and murder of a second-year postgraduate trainee doctor at city’s RG Kar Hospital the previous day.Sanjay Roy was held barely six hours after a seven-member special investigation team (SIT) was set up. The 35-year-old was produced in a local court, where…
DHAKA: Protesters besieged Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Saturday, delivering a two-hour ultimatum that forced a purge of the country’s highest court. Chief justice Obaidul Hassan decided by 1pm (in line with the student-imposed deadline) to resign. He was replaced by Syed Refaat Ahmed, appointed amid student protests backed by “law adviser” Asif Nazrul to bring…
BHOPAL: Three sisters, aged between 6 and 9 years, drowned in a shallow water pit in the backyard of their house while immersing an ‘idol’ they had made on Nag Panchami in Rewa district on Friday. Sonali, 9, Tanvi, 7, and Jahnvi, 6, daughters of Rajkumar Rajak, had not told their parents that they were…
BHOPAL: Three sisters, aged between 6 and 9 years, drowned in a shallow water pit in the backyard of their house while immersing an ‘idol’ they had made on Nag Panchami in Rewa district on Friday. Sonali, 9, Tanvi, 7, and Jahnvi, 6, daughters of Rajkumar Rajak, had not told their parents that they were…
