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US President Joe Biden held crisis talks on Monday on a potential Iranian counterattack on Israel as his administration said it was working around the clock to avoid all-out war in the Middle East. Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken engaged in frantic diplomacy to try to ease tensions sparked by a suspected Israeli attack that killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. The president called King Abdullah II of Jordan, which helped down Iranian drones and missiles in an earlier showdown in April, while Blinken called top officials in Qatar and Egypt, the key intermediaries seeking a…
Restoration of law and order is the biggest issue facing Bangladesh now and if that cannot be achieved, there will be a spillover effect in neighbouring countries including India, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel laureate and founder of Grameen Bank, told NDTV in an exclusive interview today. Now that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been ousted, the situation has taken a turn for the better and the country has to ensure that the celebratory mood doesn’t turn ugly. People should get back home after celebrations and it should be business as usual from morning, he said. After weeks of massive turmoil in…
Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as Bangladesh’s prime minister and fled the country on Monday following weeks of protests, did not want to leave at all but did so on the family’s insistence, his US-based son and former Chief Advisor Sajeeb Wajed Joy told NDTV. “She wanted to stay, she did not want to leave the country at all. But we kept insisting that it wasn’t safe for her. We were concerned for her physical safety first; so we persuaded her to leave,” her son Joy told NDTV’s Marya Shakil in a telephonic interview. “I spoke to her this morning. The…
Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen suffered an inexplicable meltdown and missed out on an Olympic medal, going down in three games to Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia in the bronze play-off at the Paris Games on Monday. A fired-up Sen was unstoppable in the beginning but a nine-point streak from Lee in the second game changed the complexion of the match as the world number 7 Malaysian registered a 13-21 21-16 21-11 win in a 71-minute clash to secure the bronze. “I had my chances in the second set and could have definitely done better. But credit to him, he played a…
The 50-year-old American woman found tied to a tree with an iron chain in a forest in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district has now told police she had shackled herself and no one else was involved in the incident, an official said on Monday. The official cited the woman’s mental health conditions for her act of self-harm. The woman, said to be battling with mental health issues, appeared emaciated when a shepherd heard her cries in the forest where she was found tied to a tree with an iron chain on July 27 and alerted the local police, an incident that had…
Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Monday ordered the release of jailed former prime minister and key opposition leader Khaleda Zia, hours after her arch-rival Sheikh Hasina was ousted and the military took power. The president’s press team said in a statement that a meeting led by Shahabuddin had “decided unanimously to free Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia immediately”. Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman, along with the head of the navy and airforce, and top leaders of several opposition parties including the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami party, attended the meeting. “The meeting has also decided to free all the people…
A swindler’s 20-year cat-and-mouse game with the law ended after his arrest by the CBI while he was allegedly living as a spiritual guru in a Tamil Nadu village – one of the many aliases he used to dodge the law enforcement agency. To evade the law, V Chalapathi Rao allegedly created multiple fake identities, forged new Aadhaar cards, lived in many states and took up jobs as a computer operator and a loan recovery agent. Rao was arrested on Sunday from Narsinganallur village in Tirunelveli before he could flee yet again, this time to another country, officials said on…
"She Didn't Want To Leave, We Insisted": Sheikh Hasina's Son To NDTV Original Source
Sheikh Hasina today resigned as Bangladesh Prime Minister and fled the country. As the Bangladesh army took control amid anarchy in Dhaka, Sheikh Hasina’s special flight landed at an air base near Delhi. The 76-year-old was forced to quit after massive protests erupted against her government over a controversial quota system that reserved more than half of all government jobs for certain groups. Hundreds of thousands of protesters defied curfew, marching on capital city Dhaka’s streets and later stormed the Prime Minister’s palace, vandalising the statue of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina’s father and Bangladesh’s independence hero. Bangladesh Army chief…
Sheikh Hasina, who stepped down from the post of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and fled the turmoil-hit nation today, may not return to politics, her son and former Chief Advisor has said. Disappointed by the strong public sentiment against her government despite her efforts to transform the country, she has decided to quit, Sajeeb Wajed Joy said at BBC’s World Service’s Newshour program. “She has turned Bangladesh around. When she took over power it was considered a failing state. It was a poor country. Until today it was considered one of the rising tigers of Asia,” Mr Joy said.…