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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s economy will shrink at the fastest pace in decades in the year through March 2021, forcing the government to compile another stimulus package to cushion the blow from the coronavirus pandemic, a Reuters poll…

Authorities in Bangladesh and Kuwait have punished diplomats and senior Government officials, following reports of their involvement in human trafficking, money laundering , bribing and other forms of corruption in the…

Pakistan has offered India a second consular access to Kulbushan Jadhav, the former Indian Navy officer who is on a death row. He was arrested on charges of espionage in Balochistan in March 2016 and sentenced to death by a military court…

Six Buddhist tribespeople were killed in a bitter clash between two factions of the Parbattya Chattogram JanSanghati Samity early on Tuesday.Police said armed fighters of M.N Larma and the Santu Larma factions were involved in the clash at…

Globe Biotech Limited has claimed to be the first company from Bangladesh to have a Covid-19 vaccine under development.They achieved positive results after conducting the preliminary trial on 5 rabbits from June 10 to June 28, said…

Cambodian authorities should immediately divulge the whereabouts of Wanchalearm Satsaksit, a prominent Thai activist who was forcibly disappeared in Phnom Penh on June 4, 2020, Human Rights Watch has said .  The United Nations Working…

Bangladesh junior shipping minister Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury  has alleged that the launch capsize in the River Buriganga , leading to 34 deaths so far, was " no accident but a deliberate case of murder." The Hasina government has formed a…

Bangladesh intelligence agencies have alerted the Hasina government about  a 'conspiracy'  by a major Power that seems to be seeking to unseat her.Easternlink has seen reports linked to the alert ,but requested by top sources not to…

Construction of the first Hindu temple in the Pakistani capital Islamabad began on Tuesday, as a long-standing demand of the minority community was fulfilled by the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The site of the Shri…

We reproduce here exclusive excerpts from the war diaries of Major Shamsul Arefin; it’s his journey from being a Pakistani Army cadet in Abbottabad to scoring the capture of Khulna as a Mukti Bahini soldier. April 1971 Not long after…