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44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

Tripura sounds coronavirus alert

10:55 pm January 28, 2020

Agartala: The Tripura government on Tuesday sounded a coronavirus alert in the whole state especially along the Indo-Bangla international border, an official said. Health Secretary Dr Debashish Bose said, “We have received an advisory from the Union Ministry of Health regarding the standard procedure being prescribed to all states for combating the coronavirus. So, the […]

Bangladesh allows education for Rohingya refugee children

7:32 pm January 28, 2020

Dhaka: Rohingya children living in Bangladesh refugee camps will be allowed to receive a formal education after a change of heart by Dhaka in a move welcomed by right activists. Nearly one million Rohingya, including more than half a million children, live in the squalid and crowded camps near the southeastern border with Myanmar, where […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Bangladeshi ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ seeks to reunite Indian man

3:33 pm January 28, 2020

Krishnanagar: In a reel-to-real story, a Bangladeshi man, on a two-day visa to India, ran from pillar to post in West Bengal’s Nadia district to trace the family of a mute Indian man he had rescued 14 years ago from a then unfenced portion along the international border. However, unlike the Bollywood flick ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, […]

Amit Shah in Tamil Nadu and Kerala on Sunday

Voting for BJP will prevent thousands of incidents like Shaheen Bagh, says Shah in Delhi

11:03 pm January 26, 2020

New Delhi: Voting for the BJP in Delhi polls will prevent “thousands of incidents like Shaheen Bagh”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said at an election meeting on Sunday. Shah attacked the opposition leaders including AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on various issues and asserted that only Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

US stresses equal protection under India’s new citizenship law

7:47 pm January 25, 2020

Washington: Amid protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act in India, a top American diplomat has underscored the importance of the principle of equal protection under the law. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells, who has just returned from a trip to the region besides attending the Raisina Dialogue in […]