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India handed out citizenship papers to 36 people from Bangladesh under their Citizenship Amendment Act, with Odisha taking 35 applicants and Assam processing one woman who married a local guy. Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi ran a ceremony for the new citizens while explaining how the...

Bangladesh economist Mohammad Abdur Razzaque told a conference crowd in Dhaka that the government needs to hustle on diplomatic channels to push back their least developed country graduation because the economy is not ready for what comes after. The Research and Policy Integration for...

Politicians in Bangladesh are getting nervous about their safety heading into election season after somebody shot Sharif Osman Hadi, who was running as an independent for Dhaka-8 and speaks for Inquilab Mancha. Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya from the Centre for Policy Dialogue mentioned at some...

Bangladesh's election chief AMM Nasir Uddin brushed off the shooting of Inqilab Moncho rep Sharif Osman Hadi as some random thing that happens sometimes, and he said the vote will keep rolling no matter what went down in Dhaka. The commission stays ready to run everything with all parties...

Bangladesh's state-owned Pragoti Industries teamed up with Toyota to start selling vehicles through their factory under the Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation, and Industries Secretary Md Obaidur Rahman showed up to celebrate the whole thing. The first shipment dropped 36 HiAce...

Victory Vixens grabbed the women's trophy at Padel Slam 2.0 after Fariha and Briana beat Navera and Tashfia from Tinny Terrors in three sets at Bashundhara Sports City. The intermediate men's bracket went to Counter Attack when Tysir and Palak knocked off Midlife Crushers, and the advanced...

Sharif Osman Hadi is still stuck in critical shape at Evercare Hospital after getting shot, and doctors say his brain scans show zero improvement. Neurosurgeon Abdul Ahad mentioned the guy's lungs are running on life support while his kidneys work fine, but the brain damage keeps everyone...

The CDC dropped a Level 2 travel warning for Americans heading to Bangladesh, Cuba, Sri Lanka, and China's Guangdong Province because chikungunya cases are blowing up in those spots. The mosquito-borne virus has no cure, but there's a vaccine out there, and symptoms hit you with high fever plus...

Rajshahi Warriors grabbed Nepalese spinner Sandeep Lamichhane for the next Bangladesh Premier League cycle, and the leg-break bowler brings some solid numbers after racking up 129 wickets across 68 international T20 matches for Nepal. He played one BPL season back when Sylhet Sixers had him on...

Myanmar's Adjutant General, Lieutenant General Phone Myat, showed up at a nursing school in Mingaladon Township to hand out commissioning papers to female graduates from their medical training program. The ceremony happened at the Defense Services Institute of Nursing and Paramedical Sciences...

Myanmar's military chief General Kyaw Swa Lin sat down with Indian Ambassador Abhay Thakur at some villa in Nay Pyi Taw to hash out how their armies can work better together. They talked about keeping border zones stable, swapping training programs, and basically staying tight since the...

Myanmar's government threw a big ceremony in Sittway for Rakhine State's 51st anniversary, and the executive chief from the National Defense and Security Council Office showed up with union ministers and the state's top guy. They handed out civil service medals and awards for people who did well...

Myanmar's air force boss, General Tun Aung, ran a military parade at Nay Pyi Taw Airbase to celebrate the branch turning 78, and troops lined up while officers and families watched the whole thing go down. Everyone saluted the flag and dead soldiers before taking some oaths, and Tun Aung walked...

Vice-Senior General Soe Win hit up two military hospitals in Mingaladon Township to check on injured soldiers and hand out food and cash. He stopped by the 500-bed orthopaedic spot and the 1,000-bed general hospital, and his wife visited the obstetrics and kids hospital down the road to talk...

Myanmar's military number two, Vice-Senior General Soe Win, showed up at a nursing school graduation in Yangon to hand out awards and talk about the 2025 election. He gave medals to top performers from the female nursing and paramedical batch, and the school apparently pumped out nearly 6,000...

The Thai-Myanmar Business Council dropped off dialysis machines and medical gear at Myanmar's Health Ministry after earthquakes hit the region. Health Minister Thet Khaing Win thanked Thailand for sending five dialysis units plus drugs and supplies worth about 3.6 million baht, and he said the...

Myanmar's top military brass threw a big ceremony at Nay Pyi Taw Airbase for the 78th birthday of their air force. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing gave a speech talking up how the branch got started back in 1947 and has been running counterinsurgency ops and drug busts ever since. He said...

Arriva Hrvatska and Briona Pula merged their operations into something called Busly, which basically just means more buses running between Croatian cities. The Zagreb to Rijeka line runs 28 times daily, and routes heading out to Istrian spots like Poreč, Rovinj, and Pula get 18 departures...

The Financial Times put Croatian construction firm Spegra at number 76 on their European growth rankings, and the company landed at seventh spot in the construction and engineering bracket specifically. Based out of Split, Spegra posted nearly 40 percent long-term growth, which marks their...

Ethan Hawke jumped on the Joe Rogan podcast to defend Paul Dano after Quentin Tarantino went off calling him weak sauce and the worst actor in SAG. Hawke said the whole mess turned into a positive thing because it showed Dano how much support he actually has in the industry. Tarantino had...