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Bangladesh Incurs Losses due to Cyclone

Bangladesh has incurred losses worth 11 billion taka ($129 million) due to cyclone Amphan which has caused damages to housing, infrastructure, fisheries, livestock, water resources and agriculture, according to initial government estimates.
May 23, 2020

Cyclone Rips through Bengal

Severe cyclonic storm Amphan made a landfall in West Bengal on Wednesday and caused severe damages in Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, North and South 24 Parganas districts and their nearby areas, with a
May 21, 2020

War Veteran Passes Away

Major General (Retired) Kashmiri Lal Rattan, the architect of one of the bravest battles of the 1971 war fought to defend Poonch in Jammu and Kashmir, breathed his last on May 16,
May 21, 2020

Pakistan Cases Top 40,000

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pakistan has risen to 40,151 with 873 deaths, according to the country’s Health Ministry on Sunday. A total of 1,352 new cases and 39 deaths
May 18, 2020

Cyclone Nears Bangladesh

Bangladesh on Sunday raised the storm alert to local cautionary signal No. 4, as cyclone Amphan moved further to the country’s north-west. The cyclonic storm has intensified gradually and is moving towards
May 18, 2020

9 Killed, 40 Injured in Suicide Attack

At least nine people were killed and around 40 injured on Monday in a Taliban suicide attack near a security base in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, officials said.. “Taliban terrorists today morning, in
May 18, 2020

India’s crucial role in Afghanistan

Spokesperson Faisal’s remarks that India has no role in Afghanistan, seemingly contradict Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s earlier statement in which he acknowledged that India had stakes in Afghanistan and its
February 14, 2019
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