Probashbangla24 Desk : At least 168 people have been killed and 745 injured after a tsunami hit the coast on Indonesia’s Sunda Strait, government officials say. The country’s disaster management agency says hundreds of buildings were damaged by Saturday’s tsunami. It says the possible cause of the tsunami was undersea landslides after the Krakatoa volcano erupted.…
Probashbangla24 Desk : Myanmar’s National Reconciliation and Peace Center (NRPC) has pledged to continue to strive towards the participation of eight remaining non-ceasefire signatory ethnic armed organizations in political dialogue, while strengthening the ceasefire already achieved with 10 armed organizations. The NRPC made the pledge in a press release issued late on Friday in response to…
Probashbangla24 Desk : Up to 10 Taliban militants have been killed following a NATO-led coalition forces’ airstrike in Afghan western province of Farah, local police said Sunday. The strike targeted a militants’ hideout in Bala Buluk district’s Ab-e-Khurma village on Saturday, leaving 10 Taliban militants including their customhouse official named Mullah Nayazi dead, provincial police…
Probashbangla24 Desk : At least 23 people died in Nepal when a bus carrying students and their teachers back from a botanical trip ran off a road and plunged 700m (2,300ft) into a ravine. Another 14 people were injured in the crash in Dang district, western Nepal. Most of the victims were students aged between 16…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Sindoor Khela 2018: Durga Puja is the biggest festival for Bengalis who wait all year long for the five days of festivities. Vijaya Dashami, being the last day of the festival, is hence a sombre occasion when Goddess Durga is bid adieu for a year. Even though it’s a day when people…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Authorities in India’s most populous state have changed the Muslim name of an historic city to one with Hindu overtones, local media reported. Allahabad, a city of more than one million people in northern Uttar Pradesh (UP) state, will now be known as Prayagraj, a senior official from the ruling Bharatiya Janata…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Confronting a bank manager for allegedly demanding sexual favours, a woman is seen thrashing him on the streets in south Karnataka’s Davanagere city, some 260 km from Bengaluru, India. The video of the incident, which took place yesterday, shows a woman beating up the bank manager for allegedly asking for sexual favours…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : A man convicted of killing eight children was executed at a Pakistani prison early Wednesday after the country’s top court rejected a request for his public hanging, officials said. Mohammad Imran was hanged in the eastern city of Lahore in the presence of the father of 7-year-old Zainab Ansari, whose rape and…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : Thailand’s new army chief on Wednesday did not rule out another military intervention if there was political conflict after the return of civilian rule in a general election next year. General Apirat Kongsompong, who took up his post this month, said the army was being closely watched and would strive to remain…
Probashbangla24 online Desk : One of the largest cut diamonds in the world, the Kohinoor weighing 21.12 grams, was not forcibly taken by the British but was instead surrendered by the erstwhile Maharaja of Lahore to the Queen of England. The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) said the Kohinoor was gifted to the East India Company…