Abu Bakr met Kavita Rani, fell in love, then killed her and chopped her into pieces in Bangladesh. The case has eerie similarities to the murder of Shraddha Walkar, who was strangled and chopped into 35 pieces by Aaftab Ameen Poonawala in Delhi on May 18. On November 6, Abu Bakr did not turn up for work and was…
Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian cities and Donetsk witnessed heavy fighting as Vladimir Putin’s forces continued their offensive, a week after retreating from the strategic port city of Kherson. Since Russia pulled out its troops from Kherson, a city it occupied since the early days of the invasion,…
North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters Thursday, hours after the North threatened to launch “fiercer” military responses to the US bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan. The missile fired from the North’s eastern coastal Wonsan area at…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden exchanged greetings on Day 2 of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. The two leaders started the day by joining other G20 leaders in visiting the Taman Hutan Raya mangrove forest in Bali. The world leaders planted trees in the forest. The External Affairs Ministry…
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told Asian leaders on Sunday that China is continuously and increasingly taking actions that infringe on Japan’s sovereignty and escalate tensions in the region. Addressing the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, Kishida said ensuring peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait was…
Pro-Kremlin forces in Russia are hoping that the Republicans win control of Congress, an outcome they believe could mean Democratic President Joe Biden faces a tougher and longer slog to get military aid packages for Ukraine approved. But for now, few in Moscow expect the bipartisan US political consensus on Ukraine to…
Exactly a week after the foiled assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) long march to resume on Thursday from Wazirabad, said PTI in a tweet. Earlier, the senior vice president of the party, Fawad Chaudhry, had announced in a tweet that the party’s long…
Xi Jinping emerged from the 20th Communist Party Congress with a precedent-breaking third leadership term and a Politburo Standing Committee made up entirely of loyalists, cementing his place as China’s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong. Under Xi’s decade in power, China has undergone profound change,…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sparked a row by advising one of the lawmakers of the country and his wife to have at least three children. During a meeting with Mehmet Ali Celebi, a member of the National Assembly of Turkey who recently joined Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, and his wife, the…
British-Indian prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak on Wednesday pledged a crackdown on Islamist extremism, the UK’s most “significant terror threat”, with a widened government definition of extremism and strengthening existing terrorism legislation. The 42-year-old former Chancellor, who is seen closing the…