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Super typhoon Yagi kills four in Vietnam

In Hanoi, people are seen battling strong winds Super Typhoon Yagi, the most powerful storm in Asia this year, has killed at least four people after making landfall in northern Vietnam.The storm hit Hai Phong and Quang Ninh provinces with winds of up to 203 km/h (126 mph) on Saturday morning, the Indo-Pacific Tropical Cyclone […]

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Yunus takes 7-member team to UNGA, Hasina used to take hundreds

Hasina attended the 70th UNGA in 2015 with a mammoth 227-member team. In 2014, her team size was 178 According to a notice issued by the Chief Advisor’s Office, the team consists of Deena Afroz Yunus, daughter of Prof Yunus; Debapriya Bhattacharya, a member of the white paper committee on economy; and Shahidul Alam, managing

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Netflix show on India plane hijacking sparks row

The series has courted controversy over the aliases used by the hijackers BJP leader Amit Malviya said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that by using the hijackers’ “non-Muslim” aliases in the series, the filmmakers had ensured that people would “think Hindus hijacked IC-814”.A Hindu right-wing organisation has filed a case in a Delhi

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The child-killing wolves sparking panic in India

India has an estimated 3,100 wolves spread over a number of states Four-year-old Sandhya was sleeping outside her mud hut in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on the night of 17 August when a power cut plunged the village into darkness.“The wolves attacked within two minutes of the lights going out. By the time we realised

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