Firefighters and army personnel are working to douse a major fire that has raged through a popular clothing market with 3,000 shops in Bangladesh’s capital, officials said. The fire started at Bangabazar Market in Dhaka at 6:10am (12:10 GMT) on Tuesday but no casualties were reported immediately, local fire services official Rafi Al Faruk told مزید پڑھیں

Top Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi appealed on Monday against the defamation conviction that resulted in his expulsion from parliament two weeks ago. Gandhi, 52, who was sentenced to two years imprisonment in a case about remarks he made in 2019 seen as insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and those sharing his surname, is مزید پڑھیں

Former Manhattan district attorney (DA) Cyrus Vance Jr has said that former president Donald Trump’s statements criticising the trial court and incumbent DA Alvin Bragg could potentially strengthen the case against him with another “charge of obstruction”. While speaking with the Press, the former district attorney said: “I’ve got to say, I was disturbed to مزید پڑھیں

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi is set to appeal on Monday against his conviction and jail sentence in a criminal defamation case. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference at the AICC headquarters, on March 24, 2023 in New Delhi, India. Rahul Gandhi said that he does not care if he gets disqualified permanently مزید پڑھیں

Three British men are being held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan, including so-called “danger tourist” Miles Routledge, British media reported on Saturday. The other two men are charity medic Kevin Cornwell and another unidentified UK national who manages a hotel in Kabul, the report said. “We are working hard to secure consular contact with British مزید پڑھیں

The Nato alliance is open to more engagement should India seek it, but the organisation is not seeking new members in the region, the US envoy to Nato said. America’s Nato Ambassador Julianne Smith also spoke of China’s increasing assertiveness in the region and how it has impacted the alliance’s approach to the Asia-Pacific region. مزید پڑھیں

Russia has taken over the presidency of the UN Security Council, despite repeated requests from Kyiv to other members to block the move. The last time Moscow held the chair was in February 2022, when its troops launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The security council’s presidency rotates every month between 15 members. During its مزید پڑھیں

Finland will become the 31st member of Nato after Turkey’s parliament voted to approve its application. Turkey had delayed Finland’s bid to join the West’s defensive alliance for months – complaining the Nordic nation was supporting “terrorists”. Sweden, which applied to join Nato at the same time last May, is still being blocked by Ankara مزید پڑھیں

105 years have passed since the genocide committed against Azerbaijanis by Armenian Dashnaks together with Bolsheviks, APA reports. The mass massacres that began in Baku on the night of March 30, 1918 resulted in the murder of nearly 20,000 innocent people, including a large number of elderly, women and children. During the massacre that lasted مزید پڑھیں

The death toll after a floor collapsed at a Hindu temple in India had risen to 35 on Friday with rescue operations ongoing, a local official told AFP. Dozens of worshippers celebrating a major religious holiday on Thursday plunged into the stepwell — a stair-lined communal water source — after the floor covering it collapsed مزید پڑھیں