Bangladesh’s former ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina claimed that had she allowed the US to take over the St. Martin’s Island, she would have still been the country’s prime minister. In India, the short seller Hindenbrug’s latest report on the Indian stock regulator chairperson’s alleged stakes in an Adani-linked offshore funds has raised some pressing questions.
A three square kilometre stretch of land, St Martin’s Island in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, has emerged as the point of focus in the ongoing Bangladesh crisis that led to the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government earlier this week.
Death toll from the garbage landslide at a landfill in Uganda’s capital Kampala has gone up to 12, said the police on Sunday (August 11). A day earlier, on Saturday (August 10), the Kiteezi landfill, triggered by torrential rains, had a massive collapse engulfing homes, livestock, and people under piles of rubbish.
The Israeli military expanded evacuation orders in the Gaza Strip’s Khan Younis late Saturday (Aug 10), forcing tens of thousands of Palestinian residents and displaced families to leave as explosions from tank shelling reverberated around them.
Opposition parties in India have strongly reacted to the US-based short-seller Hindenburg’s allegations on Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and the Adani group. In its report, Hindenburg alleged, on Saturday (Aug 10), that Buch previously held investments in certain offshore funds that were also used by Adani Group.
In his first televised interview after stepping back from the 2024 presidential race, President Joe Biden has issued a stark warning about Republican candidate Donald Trump, labelling him “a genuine danger to American security.”
To tackle forced labour, the United States has banned imports from five more Chinese companies. It has targeted China-based firms accused of using Uighur forced labour for profit.
India’s javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra wants to compete with international stars in India. His comments came after winning a silver medal in men’s javelin throw event at the Paris Olympics 2024. Neeraj had also won the gold medal in the same event in Tokyo 2021.
The lawyer of the main suspect in a foiled plot to carry out an attack at Taylor Swift concert in Vienna on Sunday sought to play down the seriousness of the plan, saying her client was only “playing with ideas”.
