Kabul, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Taliban regime in Kabul announced that it will build shelters for the hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees returning home from Pakistan after the neighbouring country formulated a phase-wise process…
New Delhi, November 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday inaugurated a State Bank of India (SBI) branch in Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee city, during her ongoing visit to the island nation. In a…
Islamabad, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistani authorities have rounded up hundreds of undocumented Afghan refugees as the deadline for them to leave the country has ended. In an unprecedented move to target the 1.7 million Afghan…
Dhaka, Nov 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh on Wednesday launched a local currency card, Taka Pay, the first of its kind in the country, as part of its efforts to build a cashless society. Prime Minister Sheikh…
Colombo, Nov 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Sri Lankan government has called for bids from interested parties for the divestiture of state-owned flag carrier SriLankan Airlines, Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva said…
Colombo, Nov 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sri Lanka on Wednesday launched its new population and housing census, which is an exercise done once in 10 years, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. The PMD said the census…
Islamabad, Nov 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will on Thursday sit across the table to conduct the first review of the $3 billion Stand-by-Arrangement (SBA) and Islamabad is confident that it…
New Delhi, Nov 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that relations between India and Bangladesh have reached new heights and that New Delhi has considered the approach of ‘Sabka Saath Sanka Vikas”…
Dhaka, Nov 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) At least four people died while more than 500 BNP-Jamaat men were arrested across Bangladesh on the first day of the Opposition’s nationwide 72-hour rail, road, and waterways blockade on Tuesday….
Dhaka, Oct 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Bangladesh High Court on Monday commuted the death sentences of seven militants to imprisonment until death in connection with the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in 2016. The bench of Justice…
Dhaka, Oct 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen on Sunday demanded immediate arrest of an alleged ‘fake’ advisor to US President Joe Biden. “The fake advisor to the US President, as claimed by…
Dhaka, Oct 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bangladesh government on Sunday signed a loan agreement for 106 million US dollars to improve water resources management and agricultural productivity in the South…
Dhaka, Oct 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary general of Bangladesh’s main opposition party BNP, has been detained by police from his Gulshan residence in the capital on Sunday. The action comes a day…
Dhaka, Oct 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hit out at Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-Jamaat, saying that they only believe in terrorism and militancy. Prime Minister Hasina made the remarks on Saturday afternoon…
Manila, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Friday said it has approved a $90 millio loan to develop infrastructure and systems that will provide clean drinking water and sanitation services in…
Colombo, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) At least 24 people were injured, including four said to be in critical condition, after a fire ripped through an eight-storey building in Colombo, police in the Sri Lankan capital said….
Islamabad, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said the crucial general elections in the country will be held on time, highlighting that there was no possibility of a delay in the polls…
Dhaka, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) A woman was killed and nine others injured as a fire broke out on the second-highest floor on the 14-storey Khawaja Tower in Dhaka’s Mohakhali area on Thursday evening. Members of…
London, Oct 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) The UK government will charter flights for Afghan refugees stranded in Pakistan who have been promised British visas, starting from Thursday onwards, a media report said. The development comes after Pakistan…
Peshawar, Oct 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) A top Afghan diplomat said on Wednesday that the Islamic Emirate — or the Taliban administration — had already issued a fatwa (decree) that launching attacks in Pakistan is not “jihad”…