Sally Bundock

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Saturday declared a 'state of emergency' amid damage caused by Cyclone Ditwah, which has killed at least 120 people, and led to 130 others missing. The official gazette from the island nation's government came after an all-party meeting on Friday, in which the Opposition leaders called for an

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's final post on social media has resurfaced amid rumours about his death in Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail. There has been no word from the former cricketer ever since the X post appeared 24 days ago.   In the post he lashed out at the Pakistani army chief. "Asim Munir is the

As many as 56 people were killed as torrential rains, floods and landslides due to Cyclone Ditwah wreaked havoc in Sri Lanka.  Sri Lankan authorites have said over 43,900 people from 12,313 families have been affected by the extreme weather conditions. According to local media reports, the number of people who died in the cyclone-related

The death toll of the deadly blaze at an apartment complex in Hong Kong has reached 128 as of Friday. Officials reported that the rescue operations were coming to an end, as only 16 bodies were reportedly still inside the buildings, at a press conference. Firefighters had continued to search inside the burned high rises

The Afghan refugee who is the main accused in the shooting of two members of the US National Guard had lived a quiet family life in Bellingham in Washington state. Ramanullah Lakanwal, 29, lived in a $2000 rented apartment along with his wife and five children, according to his neighbours. They said that he was

Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has been hospitalised in critical condition, revealed leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The BNP supremo, 80, was first brought to Evercare Hospital in Dhakha on November 23 after she suffered a chest infection. She is being treated by a medical board comprising Bangladeshi and foreign doctors. What

United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he and his administration would ‘permanently pause migration from all Third World countries.’ On a post on Truth Social, he said that he was doing it to "allow the U.S system to fully recover and terminate all of Biden's illegal admissions." He also said that it

The new 100-rupee note released by Nepal’s central bank on Thursday has become the subject of discussion for featuring a revised national map that includes the disputed Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura regions—territories India has long maintained are its own.  Nepal's new Rs 100 banknote has Mt Everest on its left side, while there is a

The suspect in the shooting incident near White House in Washington, in which two National Guard men were injured, is a migrant from Afghanistan who came to the United States in 2021, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday. Trump also called for his government to re-examine Afghan immigrants who entered the United States during the

By any conventional measure, Bangladesh today appears economically strained. Inflation hovering above 8 per cent, private-sector lending slowing, and the banking system wrestling with a mountain of non-performing loans.  However, to present them as evidence of the country’s interim administration’s economic failure—as some commentators have recently done—is to misunderstand both the depth of the damage