Singapore’s passport has retained its position as the world’s most powerful passport. According to the Henley Passport Index, the small city-state will have the world’s most powerful passport in 2025. As a result, Singapore citizens will be able to travel visa-free to 195 of the world’s 227 countries this year. According to the new list, […]
Read MoreAmidst political tensions, Bangladesh has reclaimed 5 km area occupied by India on the border. However, the country’s border guard force, the BSF, has claimed that the news is ‘baseless’. This information was reported by Indian news agency PTI on Tuesday (January 7). According to the report, the BSF has rejected the report that the […]
Read MoreNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Monday’s (January 6) test launch of a new hypersonic missile system was used. It will help us repel our rivals in the Pacific Ocean. State news agency KCNA reported this information. NDTV reported. Kim Jong Un told KCNA that the hypersonic missile system will reliably repel any rival […]
Read MoreIndonesia has become a full member of the BRICS, an alliance of emerging economies. Brazil, the current president of the alliance, said that Indonesia is being officially made a full member of BRICS to increase the power of emerging economies and protect the interests of the ‘Global South’ (developing countries in the global south). The […]
Read MoreSouth Korean anti-graft investigators secured a new court-ordered arrest warrant Tuesday for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose failed martial law bid threw the country into turmoil. The former star prosecutor has refused questioning three times after his bungled December 3 martial law decree plunged South Korea into its worst political crisis in decades. As […]
Read MoreLocal independent power producers (IPPs) have urged the government to clear at least half of their outstanding dues, approximately Tk9,000 crore, within 10 days to prevent power shortages during the upcoming Ramadan in March and the subsequent rice-growing season, which requires heavy irrigation. During a meeting with Power Division Secretary Farzana Mamtaz at the Secretariat […]
Read MoreSouth Korea’s military confirmed the launch while Japan’s coast guard also said a projectile believed to be a North Korea-fired missile had fallen. North Korea fired a ballistic missile out to sea off its east coast on Monday, coinciding with a visit by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Seoul during a period of […]
Read MoreTaiwan has in recent years complained about what it sees as China’s “grey-zone harassment” – from daily military drills and balloons near the island to cyberattacks – at a time when Beijing ramps up military and political pressure to force the democratically governed island to accept its sovereignty claim. Cyberattacks on Taiwan government departments doubled […]
Read MoreThe US government is in the process of removing restrictions on Indian nuclear entities, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Monday, in a bid to forge deeper energy ties with New Delhi and bolster a 20-year old landmark nuclear deal. Washington and New Delhi have been discussing supply of US nuclear reactors to energy-hungry […]
Read MoreChina’s top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Sunday, maintaining a 35-year-long tradition, to quietly advance Beijing’s already sizeable influence across the resource-rich continent as Europe’s presence wanes and America’s wavers. While global capitals and investors brace for the return of US President-elect Donald Trump to the White House, and wars […]
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