The International Crimes Tribunal-2 has accepted formal charges against 11 people, including ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in a crimes against humanity case over the killing of Ekramul Haque in an alleged crossfire in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar.The three-member tribunal, led by Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury, on Sunday issued arrest warrants for eight of the accused ...more

India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned following weeks of nationwide protests over alleged exam paper leaks and irregularities in recruitment and entrance tests.The demonstrations were led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a satirical campaign that evolved into a nationwide protest movement. Thousands of people gathered in New Delhi, with demonstrations spreading across the ...more

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, and several Congress leaders were detained by Delhi Police during a protest outside the Prime Minister's residence on Monday.The protest was dispersed after talks between the opposition and authorities reportedly failed. During the police action, officers cleared demonstrators from the protest site and detained several ...more

Supporters of India’s youth-led Cockroach movement have clashed with police as thousands attempted to march to Parliament, demanding the education minister’s resignation, while the government has appeared to launch its first public outreach to the group leaders.Police used tear gas and charged protesters with batons on Monday after they tried to breach security barricades surrounding ...more

France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heat wave, the country’s public health agency said Sunday, as Europeans elsewhere were suffering through yet another day of new temperature highs that sparked wildfires in Germany and had Berlin police using water cannons to cool down the crowds.Temperature records were ...more

 The death toll from twin earthquakes rose Friday to 920 in Venezuela, where tens of thousands were reported missing as a desperate and slow-moving search for survivors was boosted by international rescue teams.Caracas residents jeered interim leader Delcy Rodriguez during her visit to a devastated neighborhood, as fury over the perceived lack of an official ...more

Senior CorrespondentDeposits held by Bangladeshis in Swiss banks surged by nearly 41 percent in 2025, reaching their highest level in four years and reigniting concerns over capital flight and money laundering despite ongoing efforts to strengthen financial governance.According to the latest annual report released by the Swiss National Bank (SNB), the amount of money linked ...more

Three months after the United States and Israel staged an attack on Iran, a US blockade and Tehran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz have created a deadlock, with neither side bending, economic pain deepening and the risk of ​renewed war rising.A growing concern among policymakers is not whether a deal is near, but how ...more

In a historic political shift, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is on the verge of forming its first-ever government in West Bengal. As of Monday afternoon (May 4, 2026), counting trends show the BJP leading in 194 seats, comfortably crossing the majority mark of 148 in the 294-seat assembly. The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) is facing ...more

Vote counting is in progress across 293 constituencies in the 2026 Assembly elections covering five Indian regions West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.Across the country, 823 seats are being contested in what is expected to reshape India’s political balance.West Bengal trendIn West Bengal, early counting trends show the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) moving ...more