In his strongest ever attack on Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday said that someone who “presided over massacre of citizens on the streets of Ahmedabad” shouldn’t be the PM.
Blaming the ruling party men for the crude bomb blasts near the opposition leader’s Gulshan residence, opposition BNP on Thursday voiced grave concern over the security of its chairperson Khaleda Zia.
A disappointed US is yet to decide whether it would recognise Bangladesh’s Jan 5 election, but the State Department’s deputy spokesperson said the failure of the parties to reach a consensus the US has been calling for was clearly “not…
South Asia Bureau Chief and Political Editor of The New York Times Alan Berry was prevented by police to enter the residence of opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Friday evening. Sources said Allan Berry accompanied by BNP chairperson’s adviser Reaz…
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad thinks the Opposition-enforced nonstop blockade will not affect the Jan 5 parliamentary polls. After apprising the President of elections preparations, he told reporters on Thursday, “No vehicle, except the authorised ones, in any…
An operation is under way in Antarctica to rescue passengers from the ice-bound research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy.
Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been taken to hospital with a suspected heart problem on his way to court for his treason trial.
A bus has plunged down a deep gorge in the western Indian state of Maharashtra killing at least 27 people, police say.
Indian daily ‘The Hindu’ in a New Year editorial has suggested that post-election Bangladesh appears headed for “more volatility” and New Delhi’s relations with the new government “will only get more complicated”.
The US ambassador in Dhaka Dan W Mozena has met BNP Vice Chairman Shamser Mobin Chowdhury on Wednesday. Mozena entered Chowdhury’s Banani home at 11.30 am and left after an hour and half.
The Election Commission has been granted Tk 2.10 billion to meet the cost of conducting the Jan 5 polls and maintaining law and order. The expenditure has come down by more than half the projected amount as candidates in 153…
The US state of Colorado is making history by becoming the first to allow stores to sell cannabis.
A Palestinian diplomat has been killed by an explosion at his home in the Czech capital Prague, apparently while opening a case, police say.
British High Commissioner Robert Gibson had a meeting with ruling Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam at the latter’s house for about an hour on Tuesday. The UK envoy came out of the house in a SUV at 3:41pm…
Former motor racing champion Michael Schumacher’s condition has improved slightly after an operation to relieve pressure on his brain, his doctors have said.
A rescue mission for a ship stuck in ice in Antarctica is under threat as reports have emerged that one of the assisting vessels may itself be stuck.
Apparently shifting blame to the opposition for not reaching a consensus on participatory polls, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Monday said BNP and its alliance partners never negotiated in ‘good faith’ for taking part in the elections, rather they…
At least 14 people have been killed in a suicide bombing on a trolleybus in the Russian city of Volgograd, investigators say.
Michael Schumacher, the seven-time Formula 1 champion, is “fighting for his life” after a ski accident in the French Alps, his doctors say.
Dhaka – Opposition BNP on Sunday accused the government of resorting to unprecedented autocratic path to foil its peaceful programme of ‘March for Democracy’.
Dhaka – Four civil society bodies on Sunday contradicted part of the statement made by Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam saying no representative of the AL was invited to the dialogue organised by them ‘is not true’.
An explosion at a train station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd has killed at least 14 people, reports say.
Barrels packed with explosives and dropped from Syrian aircraft have killed 517 people in the northern province of Aleppo since 15 December, activists say.
More than 500 municipal lawmakers in one Chinese province have stood down following an electoral fraud scandal, according to state media.
Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of a new anti-corruption party in India, has been sworn in as Delhi’s chief minister at the city’s Ramlila Ground.
Six Bangladeshi girls returned home through Benapole check post of Jessore district on Friday night after languishing for three years in a Indian jail.
President Barack Obama has signed a bipartisan budget dea Obama has signed a bipartisan budget deal l easing spending cuts and a defense bill cracking down on sexual assault in the military, marking a modest end to a challenging year…
The Election Commission on Friday dispatched ballot papers amid tight security to returning officers in various districts for the January 5 parliamentary elections. The commission started dispatching the ballot papers to various districts in the morning under strong escorts of…
The visit of Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Liu Zhenmin who was scheduled to reach here on Saturday has been postponed ‘due to flight cancellation’ following heavy fog in Kunming. “Kunming Airport was closed due to heavy fog and…
A scientific mission ship, trapped in dense pack ice off East Antarctica since Christmas Day, is close to being rescued as a Chinese icebreaker nears.