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End violence, will meet your demands, said Bangladesh’s army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman Monday to protesters, adding that he will form an interim government after prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the capital in the face of overwhelming protests. “We will form an interim government,” Waker said in a broadcast to the nation on state television, assuring the protesters that their demands will be met. “The country has suffered a lot, the economy has been hit, many people have been killed — it is time to stop the violence,” he added. “I hope after my speech, the situation will improve.” Waker, a…
Sheikh Hasina left in a military aircraft and is heading to an unspecified “safe space”; there are reports this will be Tripura’s Agartala, but officials at Agartala’s Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport told NDTV no military aircraft from Bangladesh is due to land at this time. According to news agency AFP, she wanted to address the nation but the proximity of the violence meant her security detail vetoed the proposal. Bangladeshi sources told AFP her security team asked her leave, and that “she did not find any time to prepare a speech”. In a televised address to the troubled nation, Army chief…
A New Jersey father has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for abusing his 6-year-old son to death. Christopher Gregor was found guilty of child endangerment and manslaughter in May after a jury heard evidence that he forced his son, Corey Micciolo, to perform abusive treadmill workouts, leading to the boy’s death. The prosecutor alleged the child died from injuries sustained during the father’s abuse. The sentence comes after a four-week trial and nearly three-and-a-half years after the boy’s death in April 2021, reports Newsnation. A video shown in the courtroom showed Gregor increasing the speed on a treadmill,…
Algerian boxer Imane Khelif has called for an end to the “bullying and negative rhetoric” after she guaranteed herself an Olympic medal in the women’s 66kg category in the Paris Olympics, becoming the first woman from her country to achieve this milestone. Khelif’s victory over Hungary’s Anna Luca Hamori has not only secured Algeria’s first boxing medal since 2000 but has also secured her place into the semi-finals, where she will face Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng on Tuesday. The Algerian has found herself at the center of a gender eligibility debate. Alongside Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting, Khelif has faced scrutiny and…
The son of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday urged the country’s security forces to block any takeover from her rule as hundreds of thousands of protesters demanded she quit. “Your duty is to keep our people safe and our country safe and to uphold the constitution,” US-based Sajeeb Wazed Joy said in a post on Facebook. “It means don’t allow any unelected government to come in power for one minute, it is your duty.” Joy, who is also an information and communications technology advisor to Hasina, warned progress made by Bangladesh would be threatened if she were forced…
The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s bail plea and simultaneously dismissed a challenge to his arrest by the CBI in the alleged liquor policy scam. The court directed the Aam Aadmi Party leader to first approach the trial court for relief. However, AAP sources have told NDTV Mr Kejriwal will now move the Supreme Court. First arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in March, weeks before the 2024 Lok Sabha election, Mr Kejriwal has now spent 115 days in jail. This is despite the Supreme Court granting regular bail on July 12. However, that was for…
About 10 students of a government school in a Himachal Pradesh village went missing following flash floods triggered by a cloudburst on Wednesday night. Among the 10 missing students of the Government Senior Secondary School in Samej village near Shimla, four are promising sports stars – two state-level volleyball players and other two district-level shuttlers. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu also visited the village and met the students of the school. The students sought the Chief Minister’s assistance to locate their missing schoolmates. The flash floods wreaked widespread destruction in Kullu, Mandi and Shimla regions of Himachal Pradesh. A…
As Team India’s batting collapsed to 208 all out in the second ODI against Sri Lanka, the side picked up an unwanted accolade. The loss meant that this will be the first time in 27 years that India will not win a bilateral ODI series against Sri Lanka, in which at least one match has been completed. India have won 11 consecutive bilateral ODI series since 1997, but that streak will come to an end here, as India can manage a 1-1 series draw at best. It isn’t the ideal note for Gautam Gambhir to start off his tenure as…
The wall collapse incident in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, which left nine children dead, may have been caused by loud music, according to local residents. The children, in the 8 to 15 years age group, were sitting next to a dilapidated house’s wall during a religious ceremony in the adjoining Hardaul Baba temple when the incident took place yesterday. Owned by Mulu Patel, the dilapidated house is about 50 years old and was precariously supported by bamboo beams. Around 9 am yesterday, loud music from a DJ set-up started playing in the temple. On the itinerary of the religious event…
A global sell-off has led to a major bloodbath in the equity markets as corporate giants stared down at massive losses. The US markets fell over 2.43% on Friday while the Asian peers added to their losses as they opened after the weekend. Both the Indian indexes were trading 3% in the red at their lowest on Monday. Sensex had slipped below the 80,000-level for the first time in about four weeks – marking the worst fall since the share markets tumbled over 4,300 points on June 4, the election results day. The massive drop that erased billions of dollars…