Canada said Thursday it had withdrawn 41diplomats from India — fallout from a bitter row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. New Delhi planned to revoke diplomatic immunity for all but 21 of Canada’s diplomats and their families by Friday, forcing Ottawa to pull out the others, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said, reports AFP. “We ...

Australia (AUS) are scheduled to face Pakistan (PAK) in the 18th match of the ICC World Cup 2023 at Bengaluru’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday, October 20. Australia’s World Cup journey gained momentum as they secured a significant victory over Sri Lanka. Opting to field, Zampa spearheaded the Aussie bowlers, claiming four crucial wickets to restrict Sri Lanka to a ...

Britain’s ruling Conservative Party suffered two damaging by-election defeats to Labour on Friday, boding ill for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his party’s chances at the next general election. The elections were in traditionally safe Tory seats, but Labour managed to overturn huge majorities in both on a notable evening for the opposition party, AFP reports. Labour had played down ...

Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, began on Friday with Maha Sashthi puja at temples across the country. A mood of festivities persists among the devotees irrespective of ages marking the festival while adequate security measures have already been taken in the puja pandals across the country. The five-day festival starts with ‘Bodhon’ of the Goddess ...

Some 500 people have been arrested during a sit-in at the United States Congress in Washington, DC, where they protested against “Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians”, according to Jewish Voice for Peace, the group that organised the demonstration. The protesters, many wearing shirts emblazoned with the words “Not in our name”, were surrounded by police on Wednesday as they sat ...

Virat Kohli’s unbeaten century sealed India’s fourth win from four World Cup matches as the hosts defeated Bangladesh by seven wickets in Pune on Thursday. Star batsman Kohli reached his century and ended the match in style with a six against spinner Nasum Ahmed when he needed three runs to complete his century and India required two more runs to ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday labeled BNP as a “terrorist party that kills people.” “BNP is a terrorist party and a party that kills people. They everyday want our resignation and topple us through movement. It’s fine. Let them continue their movement,” she told an event at Sarak Bhabhan at Tejgaon in the capital. The premier said she won’t ...

A sexual predator who stalked and murdered Zara Aleena is set to challenge his sentence at the Court of Appeal. Jordan McSweeney targeted at least five women before he attacked 35-year-old Ms Aleena as she walked home from a night out in east London on 26 June 2022. McSweeney had been released from prison on licence nine days before the ...

A Sylhet court has sentenced a man and his wife to life term imprisonment for murdering a woman in Jaintiapur in Sylhet in 2021. Senior Session Judge Moshiur Rahman handed down the verdict on Thursday. The court also fined Abdul Karim Tk 10,000. The convicts are -Abdul Karim, 39, and his wife Shirin Begum, 31. They were the residents at ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday said that “Hamas are the new Nazis” and urged continuous support from UK PM Rishi Sunak in their “long war” against Hamas. In a joint statement with Sunak, who arrived in Tel Aviv earlier today, Netanyahu said, “…this is a long war and we’ll need your continuous support. There’ll be ups and downs and ...