The Meghalaya government on Monday imposed a night curfew along its 443-km-long border with Bangladesh and asked the Border Security Force (BSF) to further tighten security in the wake of the unprecedented unrest in the neighbouring country, officials said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday convened a critical meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg in response to the unrest in Bangladesh.
Protesters have reportedly set on fire the house of former Bangladesh cricket captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as violence and chaos continued in the country after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the nation on Monday.
As the political and social crisis in Bangladesh intensifies, Congress MP and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, engaged in a crucial meeting with External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Monday.
As Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and left the country on Monday following weeks of violent student protests, an intense debate kicked off in Islamabad on the stand that Pakistan needs to take in the coming days.
Around 300 surrendered militants of different extremist outfits on Monday launched a 48-hour long hunger strike in support of their various demands including their rehabilitation, officials said.
National carrier Air India on Monday announced it has cancelled flights to and from Dhaka with immediate effect, amid the growing unrest in the neighbouring country.
Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha on Monday chaired a review meeting to check the progress and the achievement of the state power department. Chief Minister Dr Saha said that the government is working on multi-pronged programs to ensure uninterrupted power supply across the state.
Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina landed at the Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad on Monday, hours after resigning as the country's Prime Minister and leaving Dhaka en route Delhi.
Adani Energy Solutions Ltd (AESL) on Monday announced it has successfully raised Rs 8,373 crore ($1 billion) via the qualified institutional placement (QIP) route, the largest in the country's power sector.
The affected trains include the Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express (13109/13110), Kolkata-Dhaka-Kolkata Maitree Express (13107/13108), Kolkata-Khulna-Kolkata Bandhan Express, and Dhaka-New Jalpaiguri-Dhaka Mitali Express, which has been suspended since June 21.
Amid turmoil in Bangladesh, a high alert has been sounded in India's bordering areas with the neighbouring nation where the situation has become extremely volatile following protests over a quota-related issue.
Agartala Smart City Limited inaugurated its own Data Centre on Monday, becoming the first smart city in India to establish a dedicated data centre under a smart city project.
Local media in Bangladesh reported on Monday that "thousands of protesters" have vandalised the residence of the country's Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal in Dhanmondi, an upscale area in Dhaka, following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Tripura University Unit has called for the immediate suspension of Augustine Zimik, an Assistant Professor at Tripura University. The student organization accuses Zimik of engaging in unauthorized religious conversion activities on campus in collaboration with the Union of Evangelical Students of India (UESI).
As the Prime Minister of the neighbouring country of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina left the country following the intensification of the students’ protest, the Tripura’s royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barma demanded the Government of India to initiate Plan-B and secure the boundaries of the North East region of the country.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned, and an interim government will be formed to run the country, Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman announced on Monday.
Noting that the NDA government has strengthened health infrastructure in India, Union Health Minister JP Nadda in Lok Sabha on Monday, said that the number of medical colleges in the country has risen to 731 from 387 in 2014.
As violence gripped Bangladesh amid ongoing student protests, several reports indicated on Monday that Sheikh Hasina has resigned as the country's Prime Minister and left the country in a military helicopter.
India, the world’s third-largest importer of crude oil, stands to gain as oil prices have fallen to an eitht-month low at $75.8 a barrel in the international market, with a more than $4 a barrel decline since Friday as the slowdown in the US and Chinese economies have raised fears of dampening demand.
On the seventh day of Kerala’s worst-ever natural disaster, a huge mass burial will take place on Monday afternoon, said the state's Revenue Minister K. Rajan in the aftermath of the landslide at Wayanad that took place in four villages in the wee hours last Tuesday.
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Eyeing the upcoming state Assembly elections, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray slammed the ongoing caste controversy while demanding jobs for all the locals in the state, here on Monday.
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The United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned "far-right thuggery" in his televised address as riots continue across the country following the deadly knife attack in Southport.
Officials said that the Army opened fire after noticing suspicious movement of two groups of infiltrators along the LoC in the Akhnoor sector of the Jammu district and the Sunderbani sector of Rajouri district.
Rescue operations entered the seventh day on Monday when the toll in Kerala’s worst natural calamity touched 387, while180 people still missing after the massive landslides and floods in Wayanad last week.
