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Goa Tourism Sees Drop in Independence Day Weekend Footfalls as Hoteliers, Taxi Drivers Struggle Amid Price Hikes and Infrastructure Woes

Goa, Aug. 16 -- Despite parties continuing till the wee hours in popular tourist hubs like Vagator and Anjuna, tourism stakeholders across Goa wore a gloomy look at the start of the long Independence ... Read More


Shakib Al Hasan joins Atlanta Fire for US Minor League Cricket

, Aug. 16 -- rounder Shakib Al Hasan has signed with Atlanta Fire as their international wildcard player for the 2025 USA Minor League Cricket season Atlanta Fire officially announced on Friday that ... Read More


Fahmi: MCMC and police tracing TikTok user over fake forensic claims in Zara Qairina case

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug. 16 -- Authorities are investigating a TikTok user who claimed to be a forensic surgeon in a 'live' broadcast discussing the death of 13-year-old Zara Qairina Mahathir. According to... Read More


"Nation will always remember his tremendous contribution," Rajnath Singh pays tribute to Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his death anniversary

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday paid tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his death anniversary. Singh remembered his lifelong efforts to build a ... Read More


Delhi: 6 killed in wall collapse near Humayun's Tomb, 5 injured

India, Aug. 16 -- At least six people were crushed to death and five others injured after two adjoining rooms of a dargah collapsed in southeast Delhi's Nizamuddin East on Friday afternoon. The shrine... Read More


Youth-centric skits spread anti-drug message across Arunachal on I-Day

Itanagar, Aug. 16 -- Taking serious note of the growing menace of drug abuse in Arunachal Pradesh, the state's Health & Family Welfare Department, under the initiative of Minister (H&FW) Biyuram Wahge... Read More


'Snipers in Anchorage': Commentator faces flak amid Putin assassination row ahead of Trump meeting

India, Aug. 16 -- Commentator and social media influencer Brian Krassenstein faced flak on Friday after posting about having 'snipers in Anchorage', where Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are meeting. ... Read More


50 years on, Mujib assassination marked mutedly amid political shift

Dhaka, Aug. 16 -- The mourning over the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on Friday, August 15, was muted on social media fifty years after the incident, as dedicated Awami... Read More


CBI arrests man absconding for 26 years in Saudi murder case

India, Aug. 16 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Mohammad Dilshad, who had been on the run for 26 years after allegedly committing a murder in Saudi Arabia in October 1999. Ac... Read More


Beaten by mob, rickshawpuller now charged by police

Dhaka, Aug. 16 -- A rickshawpuller who was beaten by a mob on Friday while paying tribute at Dhanmondi 32 on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's death anniversary has been sent to jail in connection w... Read More