Dhaka: Muslim-majority Bangladesh will drop Islam as the country’s state religion “when the time comes”, a media report on Monday quoted a senior ruling Awami Leage leader as saying. “Islam has been kept as the state religion for strategic reasons,” the party’s Presidium Member and former minister Abdur Razzaq told a roundtable here on Sunday. “I have said it abroad… Read more »
TEHRAN — Despite president-elect Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric that he would scrap the Iranian nuclear deal or renegotiate its terms, Iran won’t have it. “The results of the U.S. election have no effect on the policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the day after the election, according to the state news agency IRNA.
Even though I understand why the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is exchanging the old rupees to prevent corruption and fight the black market, I don’t find it a good idea that he started this plan. I say this because the effects of this plan on the poor and the people who own small businesses is terrible. It is getting to… Read more »
Surging pollution levels are driving panicked residents of the Indian capital, Delhi, to queue up for face masks, leading to shortages across the city, as the BBC’s Vikas Pandey reports. “I am ready to wait for an entire day, but I am not going without buying masks today,” an angry customer shouts at a shop assistant in Delhi’s Khan Market… Read more »
During “dhamaal”, which takes place every day after sunset, thirty to fifty; men, women and children were killed and 100 were injured. They were killed by an suicide attack carried out by a 14-year-old boy at a popluar sufi shrine, where 500 to 600 devotees were present. Islamic State terror group has claimed this attack, however officials are still unsure…. Read more »
India is in the middle of an extraordinary economic experiment. On 8 November, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave only four hours’ notice that virtually all the cash in the world’s seventh-largest economy would be effectively worthless. The Indian government likes to use the technical term “demonetisation” to describe the move, which makes it sound rather dull. It isn’t. This is… Read more »
Seven Pakistani soldiers have been killed by Indian shelling in disputed Kashmir, the Pakistani military says. The troops died in “unprovoked” firing overnight in the Bhimber sector on the Line of Control (LoC). India blamed Pakistan for starting the clash.
If you are drinking tea, I suggest you put down the cup right now because I’ve got bad news for you. You can forget those pretty pictures of happy women in saris on rolling green hillsides that you see on some tea packets. That is not the reality for most tea workers. Last year, I was part of a BBC… Read more »
A suicide bomber has rammed a truck into a German consulate in Afghanistan, killing at least six civilians and wounding 120, officials said. Gunman attacked the building after the blast, in the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, battling with German and Afghan forces. The Taliban said it carried out the attack in retaliation for air strikes last week in Kunduz province.
The plan to withdraw high-value rupee notes in India had to be kept secret, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said. Four days after the launch of the anti-corruption move, long queues continue outside ATMs as people try to exchange the 500 ($7) and 1,000 notes. “It had to be done suddenly but I never thought I will receive blessings for… Read more »