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Politics

Interview: Shashwata Bhattacharya

Material development alone cannot help sustain the key spirit of state

We are continuously losing ground to say proudly that this is a country imbued with the spirit of Liberation War

Material development alone cannot help sustain the key spirit of state

Bangladesh, India secretary-level talks Wednesday

The shipping secretary-level second intergovernmental committee meeting between Bangladesh and India will begin in New Delhi on Wednesday

Bangladesh, India secretary-level talks Wednesday

Khalilzad, US envoy who brokered Afghan exit, quits

Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US envoy whose months of patient hotel-ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed to prevent a Taliban takeover, resigned on Monday

File photo US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad taken on 18 May, 2021 in Capitol Hill in Washington US

North Korea fires ballistic missile: South's military

North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea on Tuesday, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of tests by Pyongyang as a US envoy repeated calls for dialogue

Map showing launch site in North Korea on 19 October

Interview: Rana Dasgupta

‘Politicians have betrayed the minorities’

Temples and puja mandaps in various area of the country were attacked during Durga Puja, following the incident in Cumilla. The clashes even lead to several deaths

Rana Dasgupta

No faith in political leadership: Rana Dasgupta

The council announced a six-hour mass hunger strike on 23 October from 6:00am to 12:00pm and mass sit-ins and processions to protest the incidents

No faith in political leadership: Rana Dasgupta

Afghanistan

Taliban to announce plans for girls’ education ‘soon’: UN

The Taliban permitted girls to attend primary school from the start, but have maintained that neither the girls nor their female teachers could return to secondary school yet

This picture taken on 16 October 2021 shows school teacher Nasrin Hasani posing for pictures during an interview with AFP in Kabul

Afghanistan

IS claims responsibility of suicide attack on Kandahar Shiite mosque

The Friday assault came just a week after another IS-claimed attack on Shiite worshippers at a mosque in the northern city of Kunduz that killed more than 60 people

Suicide attack on Kandahar Shiite mosque toll rises to 41, IS claims responsibility

Fatal stabbing of UK MP declared terrorist incident

Prime minister Boris Johnson said Amess was “a much-loved friend and colleague” and “a fine public servant”

Police forensics officers work at the scene of a stabbing incident at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, a district of Southend-on-Sea, in southeast England on 15 October 2021

From whom will the minorities seek help?

Members of the minority community can never feel safe and secure in a country where such attacks and violence are never brought to justice

Law enforcement at a puja mandap in Cumilla after incidents of violence took place
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