International

London: British lawmakers gave initial approval Friday to a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales. After an impassioned and debate, members of Parliament approved the so-called assisted dying bill by a vote of 330 to 275. The vote...

Dhaka: Bangladesh Friday claimed India followed "double standards" on protection of minority communities and accused the neighbouring country's media of conducting an "industrial scale misinformation campaign" against Dhaka. Amid a row over the arrest of Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das on sedition charges, Bangladesh interim...

New Delhi: India Friday said the interim government in Bangladesh must live up to its responsibility of protecting all minorities as it expressed serious concern over the "surge" of extremist rhetoric and increasing incidents of violence in the neighbouring country. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)...

Dhaka: In spite of facing a severe backlash from Hindus all over the world over the shocking arrest and jailing of Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari, the Bangladesh government headed by Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus has reportedly ordered the country's banks to freeze accounts of 17...

New Delhi: India and the UK have sealed a framework agreement to co-design and co-produce electric propulsion systems to be used in futuristic warships in sync with their aim to broad-base cooperation in the strategic domain. A Statement of Intent (SoI) was inked for the...

London: British Transport Minister Louise Haigh resigned Friday over a decade-old fraud conviction for claiming her cellphone had been stolen. In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Haigh said “I remain totally committed to our political project, but I now believe it will be...

Melbourne: A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Parliament Friday in a world-first law. The law will make platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram liable for fines of up to 50 million Australian dollars ($33 million) for systemic...

Yaounde: At least 20 people were killed after a boat capsized in Cameroon's Far North region, according to witnesses and security sources. The boat capsized Thursday as it was transporting passengers from Darak island in the Logone-et-Chari division of region, Xinhua news agency reported quoting...

Toronto: Canada's antitrust watchdog said Thursday it is suing Google over alleged anticompetitive conduct in the tech giant's online advertising business and wants the company to sell off two of its ad tech services and pay a penalty. The Competition Bureau said that such action...

Beirut: The Israeli military Thursday said its warplanes fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage facility, the first Israeli airstrike a day after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took hold. There was no immediate word on casualties from Israel's...