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Syndicates exploited the situation to collect stock at low cost Faruque Ahmed Shock and surprise grabbed the nation as big rawhide merchants kept themselves away from buying hide and skin of animals during this Eid-ul-Azhathis time from small traders known as seasonal traders who venture in the scene every year to collect rawhide and sell […]

By M M Ali When the US is desperately trying to bring an end to its eighteen-year war in Afghanistan, it’s strategic partner India that made an investment of about five billion dollar in the country during the period is getting increasingly tensed about its own security. In an interim budget announced in February before […]

Tarequl Islam India’s central government has just made the region of Jammu and Kashmir a colony in its entirety, annulling Article 370 of the Indian constitution whereby the Kashmiri as a people had enjoyed a special status and autonomy by law since India’s annexation of the disputed territory on 27 October 1947 following the Instrument […]

BSS, Dhaka Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government is never led by any intention to expose people to torture in custody as she was interviewed by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London. “To tell you the truth, our government is never led by any intention to torture people in custody and it (government) […]

Special Correspondent India on Monday scrapped Article 370 of her constitution abolishing the special status for Kashmir. President Ram Nath Kovind has declared abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir. The move came after both houses of Parliament passed a resolution in this regard. […]

Special Correspondent Days after New Delhi stripped the disputed Kashmir region of its special autonomy, Pakistan announced Wednesday that it was expelling the Indian High Commissioner and suspending bilateral trade with its nuclear-armed neighbour, “We will call back our ambassador from Delhi and send back their” envoy, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced in televised […]

Online Agencies The US on Wednesday strongly refuted news reports that India had informed it before revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. Multiple media reports from the US and India said that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had informed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the Indian decision on Jammu and Kashmir when […]

Extortion hits traders on the way Faruque Ahmed The cattle markets for sacrificial animals in the city and all over the country are overcrowded by big bulls and goats and the like that people have fattened them throughout the year. The brisk buy and sell will continue till the morning of Eid Day festival. Indian […]

M M Ali The deadline for publication of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) scheduled for July 31 has been delayed by a month till August 31, but uncertainty prevails over the fate of those who would remain out of the list and eventually declared foreigners. Scores of people among those 40 lakh excluded […]

F. S. Aijazuddin KASHMIR — nature’s handmaiden — lies ravished by the BJP. India’s Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah has revoked, with the stroke of a presidential pen, the special status of Jammu & Kashmir guaranteed under Article 370 of the Indian constitution. He has relegated them to the dustbin that contains the remains […]