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Myanmar

Parcel bomb blasts kill 5 including ousted lawmaker

The latest blasts were in a village in the southern central part of Myanmar in Western Bago and occurred at around 5:00pm on Monday, the Myanmar Now news portal reported, citing a resident

People protest in Hlaing Township, Yangon, Myanmar on 2 May 2021, in this still image from a video obtained by Reuters

Eminent citizens demand release of anti-Modi student protesters

Parents, rights activists, teachers and eminent citizens, under the banner of "Udbigno Obhibhabok O Nagorik" (Concerned Guardians and Citizens) Monday demanded the immediate and unconditional release ...

Eminent citizens demand release of anti-Modi student protesters

Interview: Shahdeen Malik

‘Digital Security Act has made things difficult for the media’

Reputed Supreme Court lawyer Shahdeen Malik talks to Prothom Alo at length about the media in Bangladesh, the Digital Security Act and freedom of speech.

‘Digital Security Act has made things difficult for the media’

Myanmar

Protesters march three months after coup, UN warns of ‘standstill’

Media reported several small blasts in different places including Yangon late on Friday and on Saturday

Demonstrators carry flags during a protest against the military coup, in Dawei, Myanmar on 27 April 2021

West Bengal Elections

Third term for Mamata or will BJP wrest power from TMC?

While Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) is seeking to seize power for the third consecutive term, the BJP is making claims of winning 200 seats in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly

Voters show Voter-IDs as they arrive to cast their vote during the 8th and final phase of West Bengal Assembly election, in Malda on 29 April 2021

India

Counting of votes in 5 assembly elections today

The outcome of assembly polls is likely to have implications for politics at the national level

Rapid Action Force (RAF) try to controll All India Trinamool Congress party supporters shouting against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters as West Bengal's Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (not pictured) enters inside a polling station during the second phase of West Bengal's legislative elections in Nandigram on 1 April 2021

Who bolstered Hefazat’s bravado?

In driving away its political opposition from the field, the government has ushered in Hefazat-e-Islam in full force

Who bolstered Hefazat’s bravado?

Military Coup

Myanmar junta launches fresh air raids in rebel territory

The Karen National Union (KNU), one of the most prominent, has been among the junta’s most vocal opponents -- blasting the junta for violence against anti-coup protesters

Ethnic minority Karen troops are seen after setting fire to a building inside a Myanmar army outpost near the Thai border, which is seen from the Thai side on the Thanlwin, also known as Salween, riverbank in Mae Hong Son province, Thailand, on 28 April 2021

Senators urge Biden to impose more sanctions on Myanmar junta

A bipartisan group of US senators have urged the Biden administration to slap more sanctions on the military junta in Myanmar, including choking revenues to a state energy company, in response to its ...

Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing (L) gestures as he is welcomed upon his arrival ahead of the ASEAN leaders' summit, at the Soekarno Hatta International airport in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, on 24 April 2021

USA

Ex-policeman found guilty of George Floyd’s murder

The jury deliberated less than 11 hours before finding 45-year-old Chauvin guilty of all three charges against him: second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter

George Floyd's casket is seen on display during a memorial service for George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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