Bangladesh expresses its inability to come on board till the time Bhutan makes its “formal stance” on the agreement clear, reports Hindustan Times from New Delhi The ambitious sub-regional road connectivity plan involving Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN), an initiative that was…

China and India may have defused a potential border conflict but the stand-off seems to have led to dispute over another contentious issue: water, reports BBC. Delhi says it has not received any hydrological - the scientific study of the movement, distribution and quality of water - data for the Brahmaputra…

US President Donald Trump yesterday warned “bureaucracy” is stopping the United Nations from realising its potential, a barbed message during his first appearance at an institution he once derided as a talking shop, reports AFP from United Nations. Attending a discussion on UN reform, Trump…

Buddhists in Bangladesh have decided to abstain from taking part in the lantern festival on Prabarona Purnima in protest against the repression of Rohingyas in Myanmar's Rakhaine state. They will donate the festival money to different Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. Leaders of the Sammilito…

Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh yesterday said that an ‘independent Arakan’ is the only solution to the ongoing Rohingya crisis in Myanmar. Leaders…