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'There must be military capacity behind diplomacy'

Interview: ANM Muniruzzaman 'There must be military capacity behind diplomacy'

If a threat to our national security arises, there will be need for national consensus. If military capacity is added to national consensus, that will function as a deterrent power, said Maj Gen ANM ...

A Ukrainian soldier looks up to the sky after hearing the sound of a drone during a patrol in the frontline city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, on 24 September, 2022

Ukraine's Odessa again attacked by Iranian drones

Ukraine said Sunday that the southern port city of Odessa was attacked by Iranian-made drones overnight, two days after a Russian attack with such a weapon killed two civilians

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov attends a news conference following a meeting with European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Moscow, Russia on 5 February 2021

Russia’s Lavrov accuses Washington of ‘playing with fire’ around Taiwan

Russia accused the United States on Saturday of “playing with fire” around Taiwan while China said it will press on working for “peaceful reunification” with the democratically-governed island and ...

A view shows a burning oil depot reportedly hit by shelling near the military airbase Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region, Ukraine 27 February, 2022.

Shelling hits southern Ukraine as Russia in UN spotlight over escalation

Shelling hit southern Ukraine late on Saturday while Russia sought to defend its seven-month old war at the United Nations even as it moves to escalate the conflict

Police officers detain a man in Moscow on 24 September, 2022, following calls to protest against the partial mobilisation announced by the Russian president

Russia stiffens penalty for surrender

Russia on Saturday toughened penalties for voluntary surrender and refusal to fight with up to 10 years imprisonment and replaced its top logistics general after a series of setbacks to its ...

A refugee from Ukraine casts a ballot in a referendum at a polling station in Rostov-on-Don on 24 September, 2022, as Moscow-held regions of Ukraine vote in annexation referendums that Kyiv and its allies say are illegal and illegitimate

Russia replaces top general, pursues breakaway Ukraine polls

Moscow replaced its top logistics general on Saturday after a series of setbacks as Kremlin-held regions of eastern and southern Ukraine voted for a second day on becoming part of Russia

A device, that Anti-aircraft units of the Ukrainian Air Forces who operate in Southern Ukraine hit and identified as an Iranian-made Qods Mohajer-6 UAV, which then was found and captured in waters, is seen floating in an unconfirmed location in this screen grab taken from a handout video released on 23 September, 2022

Ukraine to slash ties with Iran over ‘evil’ drones supply to Russia

The Ukrainian foreign ministry earlier said the supply of drones had dealt a serious blow to bilateral relations

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina delivers speech at the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the UN headquarters in New York on 23 September 2022

77th UNGA PM seeks effective role of UN on Rohingya repatriation

Uncertainty over repatriation has led to widespread frustration. Cross border organised crimes including human and drug trafficking are on the rise. This situation can potentially fuel ...

Denis, 9-years-old, waits in a wheelbarrow with a box holding 12 kilos (26 pounds) of basic food provisions enough to feed one person for one month during a food rations in the former frontline village of Lebyazhe on 22 September, 2022

Russia holds breakaway polls in Ukraine

The referendums in eastern Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have been roundly dismissed as a sham by Kyiv’s Western allies

Volunteers take part in training during courses with The Mozart Group, in the Donetsk region on 22 September, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine

10,000 volunteer for Ukraine fight in 24 hrs: Russia

Amateur footage posted on social media since Putin made the announcement has purported to show hundreds of Russian citizens across the country responding to military summons

Tourists, coming mainly from Russia, leave from the arrival terminal at Antalya International Airport in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, Turkey on 22 September, 2022

Some Russians flee Ukraine conscription as Moscow remains defiant

Prices for air tickets from Moscow soared above $5,000 for one-way flights to the nearest foreign locations, with most sold out for coming days. Traffic also surged at border crossings with Finland ...

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a joint news briefing with Poland's president Andrzej Duda, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine on 23 August, 2022.

Zelenskiy accuses Russia of war crimes, sees no early end to war

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia on Friday of committing war crimes in Ukraine’s northeast and said it was too early to say the tide of the war was turning despite rapid territorial gains ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin

Pressure on Putin as reservists called up for war

Pressure ratcheted up on president Vladimir Putin as his decision to send reservists to Ukraine triggered spreading protests and hundreds of arrests at home, and Western leaders tore into the Russian ...

Asian markets tumble further as Fed hikes rates, warns more to come

Asian markets tumble further as Fed hikes rates, warns more to come

Asian markets extended a painful Wall Street sell-off Thursday after the Federal Reserve unveiled a third straight jumbo interest rate hike, said more were in the pipeline, and warned the battle ...

Photo show work progressing at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna

Bangladesh's foreign debt liability swells as price of dollar shoots up

Bangladesh foreign debt liability has increased as the price of dollars has shot up due to high import cost in the wake of Russia-Ukraine war

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