Militants kill seven, including 6 migrant workers, in India’s Kashmir

The Bangladesh government has appointed Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury as the new ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is scheduled to arrive in Dhaka on a three-day official visit to Bangladesh in the last week of October.

A Bangladeshi court on Thursday ordered an arrest warrant for exiled ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The United States has said there is no excuse for violence and anyone responsible for violence in Bangladesh should be held accountable.

Pakistan on Wednesday urged economic collaboration among Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states as a two-day leaders’ summit of the organization began in the capital Islamabad.

The prime ministers of India and Canada could benefit politically in the short term from the unprecedented expulsion of top diplomats from each country, analysts said on Tuesday.

The new European Union (EU) Ambassador to Bangladesh Michael Miller conveyed readiness of the EU to support the reform agenda of the Interim Government, while paying an introductory courtesy call on Foreign Affairs Adviser Md. Touhid Hossain this morning at the latter’s office.

Canada expelled 6 Indian diplomats including the high commissioner on Monday, linking them to the murder of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar and alleging a broader effort to target Indian dissidents in Canada.

India said on Monday that a diplomatic communication from Canada suggesting the Indian High Commissioner and other diplomats were ‘persons of interest’ in a probe were `preposterous imputations` and part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political agenda.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Pakistan on Monday for a four-day official visit, during which he will also attend the much-anticipated Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.

The United States Global Peacekeeping Operations Initiative and the Office of Defence Cooperation at the US Embassy in Dhaka have handed over airfield support equipment, including telescopic forklifts and an aircraft tow tractor to Bangladesh Air Force`s 212 Maintenance Unit.

India has agreed to extend hundreds of millions of dollars in financial support to the Maldives to help strengthen its struggling economy.

Pakistan has banned the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), or Pashtun Protection Movement, a prominent rights group, listing it as a `proscribed organisation`.

A Bangladeshi man was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday evening near Joshpur Border Outpost (BOP) in Cumilla`s Sadar South upazila.

India`s ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is projected to have lost two key provincial elections to the main opposition Congress and its allies, exit polls showed, suggesting another setback after the party fared poorly in national elections.

India`s foreign minister S. Jaishankar has ruled out discussing bilateral relations with rival Pakistan as he is scheduled to embark on his first trip to the neighbouring country in nearly a decade to attend the 2024 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit.