Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged citizens of the country to do their bit in curbing the spread of Covid-19 as the second wave is even stronger."The second wave of the coronavirus is becoming more deadly across the globe. Infection and fatality...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that New Delhi will donate military equipment used the country's in the 1971 Liberation War to be displayed in museums in Bangladesh.Modi made the announcement on Saturday in Dhaka on the last day of his two-day...

India on Friday gifted 109 ambulances and 12 lakh Covid-19 vaccine doses to Bangladesh, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi handing over the keys of the ambulances to his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina.Bangladesh and India on Saturday signed five...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi visited the 'Bangabandhu-Bapu' digital exhibition, which commemorates the lives of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Mahatma Gandhi.The exhibition, which showcases the bond of blood and shared...

"I have been waiting for a girl vice president since...forever," girl scout Amelia Phillips tells Kamala Harris, in a handwritten note. Another child has drawn a dog, in red ink, "to keep you company", yet another has sketched Harris standing in front of...

"Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last," the US Vice President-elect's mother Shyamala Harris told her once, says this revelatory and inspiring biography of the female icon of the moment, to be released on the day...

When Kamala Harris takes the oath as the next US Vice President on Wednesday, it will be a moment without equal in the countrys history. Harris will be the first Indian and Black American, first woman and first woman of colour to ever win the election to...

On January 20, 2021, when US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris moves into the One Observatory Circle in Washington, D.C., she will be bookending a remarkable chapter in American history that began with the first ever occupant of this very address back...

Kamala Devi Harris, Vivek Murthy, Gautam Raghavan, Mala Adiga, Vinay Reddy, Bharat Ramamurti, Neera Tanden, Celine Gounder, Atul Gawande are some of the Indian names that are blooming more now than at any other time in the innermost circles of the White House...

For the first time since the November 2020 election, US President Donald Trump on Thursday conceded against President-elect Joe Biden, saying that there would be an "orderly transition of power" on January 20, shortly after Congress affirmed the Democrat's...

US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine against the novel coronavirus.According to the Biden-Harris transition team, Harris was vaccinated on Tuesday by Patricia Cummings, a clinical nurse manager at the...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina on Thursday acknowledged the threat of terrorism to both the countries and reiterated their commitment to eliminate it.In a virtual summit between Prime Minister Modi and his Bangladeshi...

In a decision that will have huge geopolitical implications, India and Bangladesh have decided to resume trans-border railway connectivity between Haldibari in West Bengal and Chilahati located across the border in Nilphamari district after almost 55 years.The...

Joe Biden, who is to assume the presidency in January, has announced a policy of reasserting US world leadership as he introduced his foreign policy and national security teams.The officials he is designating for the key roles in his administration are "ready...

US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris took the stage on Tuesday to bookend US President-elect Joe Biden's first big "America is back" announcement of top appointments to the country's incoming national security team. The carefully curated show was a study...

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on Tuesday to work with his Ethiopian counterpart Sahle-Work Zewde to enhance China-Africa and the Belt and Road cooperation, so as to bring more benefits to both countries and peoples.Xi made the remarks in an exchange of...

On Monday afternoon, America's first ever Indian and Black American Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivered her first prepared remarks on the coronavirus - battered US economy. Harris spoke after meetings with industry leaders and took the stage ahead...

US President-elect Joe Biden warned Monday of terrible loss of human lives if the Donald Trump administration continues to stonewall on a smooth transition of power.Biden warned that if his team risks being "behind, over a month, month and a half" if Trump...

Mercurial President Donald Trump has sowed confusion in the post-election transition taking back within hours an admission of defeat by Democrat Joe Biden and now claiming, "We will win."Trump, who conducts his politics through tweets, appeared to grudgingly concede...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to implement the spirit of the fifth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.Jinping, also...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has become the first Big Tech CEO to acknowledge that Joe Biden will be the next president of the US, at a time when Donald Trump has refused to accept his defeat and is fighting a legal battle.The Facebook CEO told employees in a...

Former US president Barack Obama's new book 'A Promised Land' lands a sharp left hook on Rahul Gandhi's "nervous, uninformed quality" while directing warm, not-so-political praise at Rahul's mother Sonia Gandhi, according to a book review Thursday in the New...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a stronger ties with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in tackling climate crisis and geopolitical tensions amid Covid-19 recovery.The Covid-19 pandemic "has exacerbated vulnerabilities,...

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr, has finally achieved his 22-year quest for the presidency capping a career of 47 years as an elected official.When he first sought the Democratic Party's presidential nomination for the 1988 election, he said: "It is an exciting...

US President-elect Joe Biden has called for national healing after a deeply divisive campaign of harsh rhetoric but issued a warning against those who would "bet against America".In his victory speech in Delaware on Saturday night after the media declared...

As the world watches efforts to rein in the biggest tech firms -- including antitrust probes in the US and the EU amid calls to break up the Big Tech -- the arrival of Kamala Harris as the next US Vice President is a blessing for the famous FAANG (Facebook,...

Below is the full transcript of Joe Biden's first address to the nation after he became America's president-elect, on the night of Saturday in Wilmington, Delaware:My fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken.They have delivered us a clear victory....

Below is the full transcript of US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' first public remarks after the election was called Saturday by news networks for the Joe Biden ticket.Good evening. Congressman John Lewis, before his passing, wrote: "Democracy is not...

America's Vice President-elect Kamala Harris delivered a rousing victory speech in Wilmington, Delaware, hitting familiar themes and hailing Joe Biden for his "audacity" in choosing a woman as his running mate."Every little girl watching tonight sees that this...

Kamala Harris, America's Vice President-elect gave thanks to the country's voters, poll officials, party workers and family in her first prepared remarks after her ticket led by Joe Biden won the White House."Every little girl watching tonight sees that this...

Kamala Harris has arrived to deliver a victory speech in what is now America's most famous parking lot in Wilmington, Delaware, in a motorcade flashing red and blue lights -- the first sign that the earth has moved from beneath the Donald Trump-Mike Pence White...

Just over 70 days remain between now and January 20, 2021 when America's 46th President is sworn in.Saturday, November 7, was headlined by television chyrons flashing 'President-elect Biden' with a check mark against his name. But the long, hard work of vote...

Twitter flagged nearly all tweets by US President Donald Trump on Saturday as he kept making "potentially misleading claims about an election" despite Democratic candidate Joe Biden winning the presidential race.The president tweeted that "tens of thousands...

US President Donald Trump put out a one page statement soon after America's major news networks and newspapers called the US elections for his rival Joe Biden.Below is the full text of Trump's statement, issued shortly after noon, when he was at his golf...

On a big, big day in American political history, US president Donald Trump is stress busting by putting his Twitter stream on steroids and decided to go golfing in Virginia, a short drive away from the White House.NBC, BBC and The Washington Post called...

"Someone on my street is singing through a bullhorn, 'the witch is dead', I'm going to go out and yell too!'," reads a text from a Manhattan voter, running down her stairs to join the jubilation outside."Give me your address, I'll send you cupcakes!" says another.After...

It is now clear that Kamala Harris, the first Indian American and Black American candidate on a US presidential ticket, will be America's next Vice President, capping a historic run for the nation's second-highest office.The Biden-Harris ticket is at 273...

The moment has met Joseph R. Biden. The networks have called the US election for Biden, who moves up a notch from being called former vice president to America's President-elect.After four full days of waiting patiently for the slow march of vote counting...

In the days to come, the foreign and economic policies of Democratic nominee and former vice-president Joe Biden, who once believed in having greater "engagement with China," will be keenly watched by the US as well as the rest of the world. The closely...

Champagne bottles are going pop in the Joe Biden camp but they're keeping it low key for now.Three nights out from US election day, the flash and bang of a ritual announcement from news networks announcing a winner has not yet happened but top politicos in Washington...

After Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pulled ahead of President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, the state Republican Party asked the US Supreme Court to stop the counting of late-arriving postal ballots.The party asked the court Friday afternoon...

Democratic Vice President nominee Kamala Harris video, where she is seen telling her great niece that "You could be President", has gone viral.In a video posted by her niece, Meena Harris, the Democratic senator told Meena's 4-year-old daughter, Amara Ajagu, "You...

Kamala Harris, the first Indian and Black American candidate on a US presidential ticket, is pencilled in to speak ahead of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at a location that's increasingly taking on the look of a victory podium set up at the Biden...

Amid the growing suspense over the outcome of the recently-concluded US presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden said that he was going to win the hotly-contested race "with a clear majority, with the nation behind us", but stopped short of declaring...

Twitter has flagged more tweets from US President Donald Trump that spread false claims about election fraud, forcing Trump to say that Twitter has gone out of control.Trump tweeted eight times on Thursday night and saw fully half of the tweets restricted by...

An increasingly confident Joe Biden campaign sent out a stern message on Friday, without naming US President Donald Trump, saying the "United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House."Biden is leading Trump...

We know that Joe Biden is on the cusp of presidency after massive gains in Pennsylvania, but when exactly will the race be called? .There isn't a straight answer in terms of clock time but networks' ‘decision desks', which have been making these calls,...

After three full days of waiting patiently for the slow march of vote counting to work itself out, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden finally stormed into the lead in battlegrounds Pennsylvania and Georgia on Friday morning, closing in on the White...

Joe Biden has overtaken Donald Trump in all important Pennsylvania at 9 am EST. Biden now leads by 5,587 votes with ballots still being counted.If Biden wins Pennsylvania, he wins the White House. For Trump, the state is a must-win for any chance to stay...

It gets wilder by the minute. Now that two news outlets Fox and The Associated Press are holding firm to their 264 electoral vote count for Joe Biden and the rest of the US news media live in a parallel bubble that has called 253 for Biden, what happens...

Two news media organisations have called Arizona for Joe Biden, the rest of them haven't and the Donald Trump campaign has jumped right in, protesting the early call there when 450,000 votes remain to be counted. The state has a long political history of...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has won Michigan with 16 of the battleground state's electoral votes, according to media reports.Both CNN and NBC News called the race for Biden on Wednesday evening, even as other key states such Pennsylvania, North Carolina...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, edging closer to electoral votes needed to win, has declared that he was ready to "govern as an American President", while incumbent President Donald Trump has gone to the courts in a bid to stop his rival.To contrast...

Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden has staked his claim to the US presidency claiming that he has the electoral college votes for a victory, declaring, "We the people will not surrender."At last count, Biden is at 253 and Trump at 214."I'm not here to declare...

Donald Trump suffered two back to back blows losing must-win Michigan and Wisconsin to rival Joe Biden who has pulled ahead to the 253 mark in the electoral vote count.The US 2020 election winner needs 270 and Trump is trailing at 214 at 4:30 p.m. EST (3 a.m....

Facing projected losses in do or die battlegrounds, the Donald Trump campaign is going 360 degree legal.Bring it on is the Biden camp mood. "We feel good about where we are," Biden said, reflecting the upbeat spirit after the long, wild slog of election night.In...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has defended not speaking to US President Dnald Trump for the whole year, adding that working with other White House officials was more productive.The veteran Democrat made the remarks during an MSNBC appearance on Friday night,...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said that his government was promoting tourism sector to generate revenue and address the country's unemployment issue.Chairing a meeting of the National Coordination Committee on Tourism on Thursday, Khan said that the government...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that he will deal with the profiteer mafia himself as the government came under extreme pressure amid high inflation, with the Opposition making it the main agenda for its anti-PTI campaign.According to 'The News...

Upping the stakes in the upcoming US elections, former President Barack Obama on Thursday urged "young people" to "get registered and vote early" on the day it was announced that the first volume of his memoirs, "A Promised Land", in which he relates the story...