Explanation

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned over violent students-led protests

Resignation date: 5 August 2024

Since July 2024, Bangladesh has been engulfed by protests and violence as hundreds of thousands of students took to the streets against reserved quotas in government jobs.

The ‘Students Against Discrimination’ group led the demonstrations.

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Explanation

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned over violent students-led protests

Resignation date: 5 August 2024

Since July 2024, Bangladesh has been engulfed by protests and violence as hundreds of thousands of students took to the streets against reserved quotas in government jobs.

The ‘Students Against Discrimination’ group led the demonstrations.

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Explanation

The Mi-24 helicopter was hit by a man-portable air defence system close to the border with Azerbaijan, whose forces are fighting Armenian-backed separatists in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Two crew members were killed.

A third person was injured and evacuated

Explanation

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Sikh separatist leader involved with the Khalistan movement

Born: 11 October 1977 (India)

Allegedly killed by Indian agencies: 18 June 2023

On 18 September 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India's government of involvement in killing of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Canada expelled an Indian diplomat from the country.

India's foreign ministry also expelled a top Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move

Explanation

On 5 April 2023, The Arab League held an emergency meeting over an Israeli police raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

Explanation

Massive Earthquake (زلزلہ)

Location: Turkiye/Syria

Magnitude: 7.8

Date: 6 February 2023

Casualties: over 50, 000

Explanation

A domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal

Took place: 15 January 2023

Casualties: 72 people killed 

Explanation

Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Sikh separatist leader involved with the Khalistan movement

Born: 11 October 1977 (India)

Allegedly killed by Indian agencies: 18 June 2023

On 18 September 2023, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India's government of involvement in killing of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Canada expelled an Indian diplomat from the country.

India's foreign ministry also expelled a top Canadian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move

Explanation

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been evacuated unharmed from a public event after what appeared to be a smoke bomb was thrown at him.

Happened in April 2023

Explanation

At least 32 United Nations peacekeeping personnel, including seven from Pakistan, were slain in deliberate attacks last year, according to the UN Staff Union.