World,WAR
About 2,500 US Marines, part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, are the first US ground troops deployed in the ongoing US-Israel war on Iran.The unit has departed from its home port in Okinawa, Japan, aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli. The Marines are expected to deploy “in th...
World,Religion,Fair & Festivals
Gulf News:: The Australian Fatwa Council has announced that Ramadan 1447AH will end on Thursday, March 19, making Friday, March 20 the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr and the beginning of Shawwal 1447AH.The decision was made following consultations with local and international moon observatories, using cal...
France and Italy have begun discussions with Tehran in an effort to ensure the safe passage of their vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reported.Citing three sources familiar with the matter, the report said the two European countries are trying to negotiate an arrangement wit...
NDTV:: The United States has announced a reward of up to $10 million (around Rs 92.47 crore) for information on Iran’s newly appointed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, and several senior officials linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the US State Department said Friday...
National,Country, Districts,Transportation & Aviation
UNB, Cumilla:: Despite government assurances of hassle-free Eid travel, commuters fear suffering on the Cumilla stretch of the Dhaka–Chattogram highway due to varous reasons including encroachment and illegal parking.Passengers and transport operators said these problems along the roughly...
World
The United States Department of State has reduced the fee required for Americans to officially give up their United States citizenship by about 80%, lowering it from $2,350 to $450.After several years of legal disputes with advocacy groups representing Americans seeking to renounce their nationality...
US President Donald Trump announced that American forces carried out airstrikes on military targets on Kharg Island, a strategic location in Iran’s oil export network. At the same time, a US official revealed that about 2,500 additional Marines and an amphibious assault ship are being deployed...
National,Country, Districts
UNB, Jhenaidah :: At least 60 people were injured in a clash over VGF rice card distribution between two factions of the BNP in Char Golaknogor village of Shailkupa upazila in Jhenaidah, officials said.On Friday morning, police and BGB conducted a joint operation in Char Golaknogor and sur...
US President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran has been "totally defeated" in the US-Israeli military campaign against the country and wanted a deal he would not accept, despite Iranian officials pledging to continue the fight."The Fake News Media hates to report how well the United ...
AP, Dubai, UAE:: President Donald Trump said the U.S. destroyed military sites on an island vital to Iran’s oil network and warned that its oil infrastructure could be next if Iran continues to interfere with the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz.Trump said U.S. forces on Friday &l...
A building in Dubai’s financial district was struck by debris from an intercepted attack on Friday, marking the second such incident in less than 24 hours as the US-Israel-Iran conflict enters its 15th day. No fires broke out, and no casualties were reported.The Dubai Media Office said via soc...
UNB, Narail:: Passenger train services on Dhaka-Narail-Khulna and Dhaka-Narail-Benapole routes are currently operating with only one train, forcing travellers to rely on limited schedules and often wait long hours for the next journey.Local people have demanded an increase in train services to ...
National,Country, Districts,Accident, Fire, Disaster
UNB, Bagerhat:: A pall of grief descended on Mongla in Bagerhat district as nine members of the same family who were among the 14 people killed in road crash on Khulna–Mongla highway were laid to rest on Friday.Four other victims were buried in Khulna and another in Rampal upazila of Bag...
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued a warning against any upcoming protests, describing demonstrators as “neo-ISIS” and cautioning that harsher measures than those in January await them.BBC Persian reported that a mass text message sent by the IRGC’s In...
US President Donald Trump said the war with Iran will end “when I feel it,” speaking in an interview with Fox News that aired Friday.Trump said he senses the end of the conflict “in my bones” but did not give a specific timeline.About Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba K...
National,Politics,Jatiya Sangsad
Different political parties, cultural organizations and 41 prominent citizens of the country have protested the adoption of a condolence motion in the first session of the 13th National Parliament in the name of war criminals who were executed for crimes against humanity committed during the War of ...
Al-Jazeera:: Occupied East Jerusalem – Basema Dabash sheds tears daily for the home she and her husband, Raed, were forced to demolish in Sur Baher, in the south of occupied East Jerusalem. For years, the couple lived under the spectre of losing their home, ever since the Israeli aut...
The Telegraph, Delhi:: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday night, nearly two weeks after the war in West Asia began on February 28.Modi, however, did not condemn the US-Israel strikes on Iran that began the conflict, unlike in the case of his earlier...
World,Power, Energy, Oil, Gas,WAR
Reuters, Dubai/Jerusalem:: The U.S. has issued a 30-day waiver for countries to buy sanctioned Russian petroleum products currently at sea, hoping to ease oil and gas prices driven up by the war the U.S. and Israel are waging on Iran.However, the waiver appeared to have little effect, with benc...
Reuters, Kathmandu:: A three-year-old party won Nepal's general elections by a landslide, authorities said, positioning its candidate Balendra Shah to become the next prime minister, with a mandate for the rapper-turned-politician to restore political stability.The March 5 election was the ...
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