India defeated longtime rivals Pakistan by 61 runs on Sunday to advance to the next round of the T20 World Cup, a match that had been in doubt until a few days ago. Suryakumar Yadav’s team scored 175-7 after getting off to a flying start with Ishan Kishan’s magnificent 77,Read More →

DHAKA (AFP) – The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Tarique Rahman, is expected to sweep the first polls since a violent 2024 revolt, Bangladeshi TV stations said Friday. In a party statement, senior BNP leader Ruhul Kabir Rizvi declared a “sweeping victory” but did not provide specific statistics. HeRead More →

Reuters/AFP, Washington Egypt and Turkey reported on Saturday that US President Donald Trump has extended an invitation to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to join a newly established Gaza “Board of Peace,” which would supervise the territory’s provisional government. After a precarious truce thatRead More →

Minneapolis (Reuters) – On Wednesday, a US immigration officer shot and injured a Venezuelan man fleeing a traffic check in Minneapolis, according to the authorities, raising concerns about an unexpected deployment of militarized federal officers in Minnesota’s most populated city. The US Department of Homeland Security, which is in chargeRead More →

DHAKA (AFP) Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s three-time prime minister who intended to lead her country for the last time after next year’s elections, died on Tuesday at the age of 80. Zia, a dominating figure in the South Asian country’s volatile power battles for decades, had promised to participate in theRead More →

KARACHI ( A News) Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, a former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and federal minister for finance, passed away on Saturday. Her funeral prayers will be given in Karachi tomorrow following Zuhr prayers, according to family sources. On January 2, 2006, Dr. Shamshad Akhtar became theRead More →