Repatriation of Rohingya refugees and the threat posed by Pakistan-based terror groups that are allegedly trying to infiltrate Rohingya in camps in Bangladesh are likely to be among the issues Indian Army Chief Gen MM Naravane and the country’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will discuss during their one-day visit to Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital.

A medical board of India’s top state-owned hospital All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi today ruled out murder in the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, and said it was "a case of hanging and death by suicide”.

Military and security expert Dr M Sakhawat Hossain (SIPG, NSU) tells The Daily Star

Eight months after the novel coronavirus arrived in India, the number of deaths from the disease is due to cross 100,000 imminently. Nearly 6.5 million people have been infected in total, second only to the number in the United States.

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have been arrested by the police on Thursday and taken to the police station while they were on their way to Hathras to meet the family of a gang rape victim.

About three decades after the 16th century Babri mosque was razed, a special court in India today acquitted all the 32 people, including Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, in the case saying “there is no conclusive and enough proof” against the accused.

Outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das today made a farewell call on Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at state guesthouse Padma in Dhaka.

Kuwait’s new emir takes the oath of office in parliament today as the country prepares to lay to rest late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah who helped steer the Gulf state through some of the Middle East’s most turbulent decades.

India has agreed to hold ministerial level Joint River Commission (JRC) meeting at the soonest possible time to resolve the outstanding issues involving water-sharing of the common rivers.

The documentary “Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale”, on the life and works of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was screened at the Bangladesh High Commission in Brunei today, marking the PM’s 74th birthday.

India has approved the acquisition of military equipment, including an anti-airfield weapon and assault rifles, from the United States at an approximate cost of Rs 2,290 crore.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi will hold a virtual meeting in December.

Sri Lanka has shipped back to Britain 21 container-loads of waste that the government said was brought into the island in violation of international laws governing the shipping of hazardous material.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended heartiest felicitations to Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of her 74th birthday, to be celebrated tomorrow.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today made a strong case for India’s inclusion as a permanent member of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and asked how long will his country be “kept out of the decision-making structures” of the global body.

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today interrogated Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone in Mumbai as the probe into the Bollywood-drugs nexus widened.

India announces local elections involving millions of voters in the densely packed Bihar state even as it remains set to overtake the United States by next month as the world’s worst-affected nation by Covid-19 pandemic.

Thousands of farmers in India blocked roads and railway tracks today in a protest against new legislation that they say could pave the way for the government to stop buying grain at guaranteed prices, leaving them at the mercy of private buyers.

India’s Border Security Force has seized 100kg of Hilsa -- worth Rs 2 lakh -- while the consignment was allegedly being smuggled from Bangladesh into India through Petrapole integrated check-post in West Bengal.

India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is investigating the alleged Bollywood-drug nexus, may summon actor Deepika Padukone, NCB sources have said.