Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that without the spirit of sacrifice, a nation could not aspire to achieve development as the very human essence had a global significance, adding the economic situation with which the country was confronted, had been changing...

Outgoing Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the country is capable of producing enriched uranium of 90 per cent purity.In pursuing the peaceful use of nuclear technology, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has shown its capability and power to produce...

US President Joe Biden held a meeting with a group of mayors and police chiefs from across the country at the White House, where they discussed actions that could be taken to tackle the surging gun violence crimes.Also at the meeting held in the Roosevelt...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden discussed cybersecurity issues and the situation in Syria during a phone call, the Kremlin said in a statement.In the telephonic conversation on Friday, the two leaders agreed to continue their...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has demanded an apology from the US government for downing an Iranian passenger flight in 1988 after more than three decades.On July 3, 1988, a surface-to-air missile fired from a US warship stationed in the Gulf hit the Iran...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said "secularism in the constitution of Bangladesh never conflicts Islam... and it would be better to not say such things in the Parliament", in reply to Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) lawmaker Harunur Rashid who...

US President Joe Biden met his visiting Afghan counterpar Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah at the White House, amid the fragile security situation in the war-torn nation.Biden said at the...

US President Joe Biden and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held their first in-person meeting here on the sidelines of the NATO Summit, which the latter described as "fruitful and sincere". The meeting on Tuesday was part of Biden's first foreign...

US President Joe Biden has revoked and replaced executive orders targeting TikTok, WeChat and eight other software applications signed by his predecessor President Donald Trump. "President Biden revoked and replaced three E.O.s (executive orders) that aimed...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said that the world will have to pay a heavy price if the environment is not well protected and the issue of climate change and global warming is not addressed properly. Speaking at the Pakistan-hosted World Environment Day...

Pakistan and Tajikistan have agreed to further deepen bilateral relations in diverse fields with a special focus on promoting trade and economic cooperation, according to a joint declaration issued by the Prime Minister's Office in Islamabad.According to the...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that the country will continue talks in Vienna over the 2015 nuclear deal until a final agreement is reached.Despite all the pressures from US-imposed sanctions and "economic war" and the economic consequences of Covid-19...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged to create "economic security" for the private sector, in order to further attract foreign investments in the country's free trade and special economic zones.In a meeting of the Economic Coordination Headquarters in capital...

US President Joe Biden expressed concerns about the escalating conflict in the Gaza Strip in separate phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.During his call with Netanyahu, Biden on Saturday voiced...

A day after US President Joe Biden announced the unconditional withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by September which will end the 20-year old war, Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and visiting American Secretary of State Antony Blinken exchanged...

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she has "no plans" to bring a bill to expand the Supreme Court from nine seats to 13 to the House floor for a vote."No. I support the President's Commission to study such a proposal, but frankly I'm not, right now, we're...

Iran has no problem negotiating the return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, but will do so "according to its own logic", President Hassan Rouhani said during a cabinet meeting."We are not in a hurry for negotiations to be held today or tomorrow, and that depends...

US President Joe Biden has announced that all US troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan before September 11, a move to end the longest war in American history."The United States will begin our final withdrawal, begin it on May 1 of this year," Biden...

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...