June 2021

GBNEWS24 DESK// Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily announced Wednesday it was printing its final edition after authorities froze its assets using a sweeping new national security law, silencing the city's most China critical…

GBNEWS24 DESK// An Iranian news site close to security services says that authorities have thwarted a "sabotage attack" on the country's civilian nuclear program, without providing further information. Nournews, a website believed to be…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Myanmar's junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing that Moscow is committed to strengthening military ties with it, reports Reuters, quoting Russia's RIA news agency.…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Tamil actor Suriya Sivakumar took to Twitter on Saturday and called the National Eligibility Test (NEET), a threat to students Suriya, on behalf of his NGO Agaram Foundation, which helps students from…

GBNEWS24 DESK// For many cinema buffs there can be nothing better than sitting down with a bucket of popcorn and gorging on some spine-tingling, bone-chilling horror movies -- the scarier, the better. Interestingly, even though fear is…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Judiciary head Ebrahim Raisi has been elected as the next president of Iran at a critical juncture for the country. Who is the conservative leader and what are his positions? The 60-year-old Raisi, who enjoys wide…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Negotiators trying to save the Iran nuclear deal will meet on Sunday, after an ultraconservative cleric won presidential elections in the Islamic republic. The latest meeting is part of their regular discussions since…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukder has been infected with coronavirus. Mahbub was tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, said his personal secretary Muhammad Enam Uddin. He is currently undergoing treatment at…

GBNEWS24 DESK// Shela Guha, an old woman without a home, had to beg for food barely months back. Now help is there and that is from the Prime Minister! "We've become lakhpoti (one who owns assets worth Tk 100k) overnight," Shela, a…

GBNEWS24 DESK// A weeklong stricter lockdown is going to be imposed in Khulna on Tuesday (June 22) in the wake of rising transmission of deadly coronavirus infection. The restriction was imposed by a public release signed by Khulna…