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Bangladesh would pursue while strong bilateral ties with Washington, Delhi and Beijing are priorities of the interim government, Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain said on Wednesday. Hasina, 77, has been living in India since August 5 when she fled the country following a massive student-led protest that toppled her 16-year regime.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) has announced a remarkable achievement for 2024, boasting a perfect 100% conviction rate with 68 accused convicted across 25 cases. This milestone underscores the agency’s dedication to justice and enhancing national security.

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A young Edmonton woman is accomplishing dreams that are out of this world. At 21 years old, she has already worked for NASA for half a decade — and that’s just scratching the surface.

China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings.Fan Weiqiu was venting his anger because he was unhappy with his divorce settlement, the court in the southern city of Zhuhai said in handing down the sentence on Friday. The victims were exercising at a sports center.

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Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy on Friday described the late Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh as a “gentleman, a scholar, and a value-based politician.”

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—They won, but barely. Republicans held on to control of the House of Representatives in November by one of the thinnest margins in the country’s history—even smaller than in the current Congress—a result that will have them walking a tightrope again for the next two years.

extreme heat in 2024 due to climate change, a new report said on Friday. According to the European climate agency Copernicus, 2024 is set to end as the warmest year on record and the first year with a global average temperature 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

«But broadly, it is going to be a very challenging year because I do not expect significant returns at the index level in 2025 given how strong returns have been over the last few years and the fact that earning growth has slowed down. So, to that extent, to expect the markets to do very well again in 25 is going to be a very difficult task,» says Ashwini Agarwal, Founder, Demeter Advisors. Heading into next year do you believe it is going to be a year of defensives or do you think the cyclicals will be taking over and if you are liking something from the cyclical space right now, other than your usual defensives, just give us a sense of what is looking attractive on that front as well. Ashwini Agarwal: So, my sense is that sectorally, it is very hard to make broad brush recommendations because by and large, stock prices are very well discovered. So, banking and finance is one space, healthcare and pharma is another space. Normalisation of margins in a post-COVID slump of margins for midstream pharma or for speciality chemicals is another space. So, those are some of those spaces that I am looking at. Otherwise, it is more bottom-up.

Delhi witnessed light rain on Tuesday evening. The city's base station, Safdarjung, recorded 2 mm of rainfall between 5:30pm and 8:30am.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Climate change is no longer just affecting lives. It’s hurting the economy more than ever before, whether through extreme heat or rain bringing down farm output and driving up prices, or making countries adopt cross-border tariffs to factor in the costs of carbon reduction.