Kathmandu, Dec 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nepal’s President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Sunday dissolved the House of Representatives as recommended by Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli earlier in the day, setting the stage for new elections in…
By Rajnish Singh New Delhi, Dec 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Border related issues, better coordination and streamlining of mechanisms on how to jointly curb various trans-border crimes are six key issues in the upcoming Director General (DG)…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Police in Bangladesh have arrested three members of the ruling Awami League’s youth front, Juba League, over their involvement in the vandalism of a statue of of revolutionary…
By Gurmukh Singh Toronto, Dec 20 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta’s “Funny Boy” has been rejected for Oscar nomination in the best International Feature Film category at the 93rd Academy Awards. The filmmaker has co-written…
By Arul Louis New York, Dec 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) US President-elect Joe Biden has appointed Vedant Patel, a former communications aide to House of Representatives member Pramila Jayapal, as his assistant press secretary. His appointment announced…
Washington, Dec 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) US President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has appointed Indian-American Vedant Patel as the Assistant President Secretary. The announcement was made by the Biden-Harris transition team on Friday. According to a post…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nearly a fortnight after an under-construction sculpture of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was vandalised in Bangladesh’s Kushtia district, two miscreants vandalised a bust of revolutionary Jatindranath Mukherjee aka Bagha…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was a moment of happiness and a day to cheer for many residing on the Bangladesh side of the Indo-Bangla border as the railway line from Chilahati…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 18 (SocialNews.XYZ) Recalling India’s role in the 1971 Liberation War, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said “India is our true friend” during a virtual meeting with her Indian counterpart…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Water sharing and management of trans-boundary rivers will dominate the Indo-Bangladesh Summit on Thursday led by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, Foreign…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two International Crimes Tribunals (ICT) of Bangladesh has so far delivered verdicts in 41 cases filed in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the liberation war in…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought to reassure every religious community that the country equally belongs to people of all faiths as it has the shared…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The people of Bangladesh on Wednesday celebrated the 50th Victory Day. On December 16, 1971, Lt. Gen Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, the Chief Martial Law Administrator of East…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Lashing out at anti-liberation and radical forces, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the country achieved independence in lieu of the blood of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami has said India is looking forward to the joint commemoration of 50 years of Liberation War and 50 years of establishment…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) After 49 years of the Liberation War, the Bangladesh government has approved a primary list of 1,222 martyred intellectuals who made sacrifices for the nation in 1971, a…
By Ateet Sharma New Delhi, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan appointing political ally Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, a man labelled by him as a jihadi (an Islamic militant) in the past, as countrys…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the slogan “Jatir Pitar Samman, Rakhbo Mora Omlan” (We will uphold the dignity of the Father of the Nation), officials of the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) cadre…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) India has extended its support to Bangladeshs candidature for the post of Executive Director (ED) of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Office (SEARO). Newly-appointed Indian…
By Sumi Khan Dhaka, Dec 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for “positive and robust” international climate coalitions to “effectively move towards carbon neutrality” within 2050. Hasina made the remarks at the…