2021

GBNEWS24DESK// There are currently 488 media professionals imprisoned around the world, the highest number since Reporters Without Borders began counting more than 25 years ago, the NGO has announced, reports AFP. By contrast, the…

GBNEWS24DESK// US President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to be US ambassador to Australia and Olympic figure skater Michelle Kwan as ambassador to Belize, the White House said. Kennedy, 64, is the daughter of John…

GBNEWS24DESK// The wait is finally over! The motion poster of Ayan Mukherji's Brahmastra's motion poster is out now and it's currently raging on the internet. The event for the motion poster launch was held in Delhi today and it was…

GBNEWS24DESK// The visiting Indian President Ram Nath Kovind on Thursday paid glowing tributes to the memory of the martyrs of the Liberation War in 1971 at the National Memorial in Savar on the outskirts of the capital. Kovind reached…

GBNEWS24DESK// Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made a courtesy call on Indian President Ram Nath Kovind at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital today (Wednesday). Both leaders discussed several issues of mutual interest and…

GBNEWS24DESK// COVID-19 vaccines appear to have become slightly less effective in preventing severe disease and death but do provide "significant protection", the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. The omicron variant…

GBNEWS24DESK// Group Captain Varun Singh, the lone survivor of the Mi-17 helicopter crash in which Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Bipin Rawat and 12 others were killed last week, succumbed to his injuries early on December 15, the Indian…

GBNEWS24DESK// At least 11 Indonesian migrants died and 27 are believed to be missing after a boat sank Wednesday in stormy weather off southern Malaysia, authorities said. Indonesians looking for work sometimes try to enter…

GBNEWS24DESK// Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted Wednesday the US was still prepared to sell F-35 fighter jets to the UAE, which has threatened to scrap the deal over stringent conditions. The $23 billion arms package was…

GBNEWS24DESK// Virat Kohli, the India Test captain, confirmed his availability for the ODI leg of the South Africa tour, brushing aside recent reports that suggested he'd made himself unavailable. Kohli, who was recently replaced as…