DHAKA: As Congress searches for answers for its worst-ever electoral performance, daggers are already out in the party ahead of the crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting scheduled on Monday. Senior party leaders speaking in private are severely critical of some key advisers of

DHAKA: Scientists have developed an "early warning system" to alert authorities to the risk of dengue fever outbreaks in Brazil during the World Cup. The analysis, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, estimates the chances of an outbreaks of the mosquito-borne infection disease.

DHAKA: vernment protesters in Thailand are to stage mass rallies in coming days to try to get a new prime minister installed, but their leader said if this final push in a six-month fight did not succeed, he would surrender to the authorities on May 27. ‘It’s time. This show has been

DHAKA: Health authorities in Saudi Arabia have reported three more fatalities from the Mers respiratory virus, taking the death toll in the world's worst-hit country to 163. The health ministry website also revealed on Saturday that 520 cases have been recorded in the country since

DHAKA: Thousands of people joined a rally in Myanmar’s main city on Saturday to call for changes to a military-drafted constitution that bars opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from becoming president. The former political prisoner-turned-politician has been campaigning to amend the

DHAKA: India’s Manmohan Singh defended his decade-long record on Saturday as he resigned as prime minister a day after Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a historic election victory. The 81-year-old premier’s final years in power were marked by slowing

DHAKA: Laos defense minister and deputy PM Douangchay Phichit has reportedly been killed along with other senior officials in a military plane crash. The aircraft came down in the northern province of Xiangkhouang, nearly 500km from the capital Vientiane where its journey began. The

DHAKA: A Chinese national was killed and 10 others were feared kidnapped after an overnight attack in northern Cameroon believed to have been carried out by Boko Haram militants from Nigeria. Police said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times. ‘Boko Haram Islamists attacked a camp (of

DHAKA: Indian newspapers on Saturday urged prime minister-elect Narendra Modi to reach out to Muslims and avoid the temptation of triumphalism after the Hindu nationalist leader's crushing election victory. After winning the first outright majority by anyone for 30 years, Modi will not

DHAKA: France is to host a security summit on the threat from Boko Haram Islamists, after they abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria in April. Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan and other West African leaders will attend the talks in Paris. On Friday Jonathan was due to visit

DHAKA: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi may offer to resign, sources say, a day after they both accepted responsibility for the party's worst performance ever in the national election. According to Congress party sources, they are likely to make the offer at a

DHAKA: United States President Barack Obama called up Indian prime minister-designate Narendra Modi and congratulated him on his "emphatic election victory", officials said. Obama on Friday said that the largest democracy in the world has given a "decisive mandate" and that he wished

DHAKA: Fossilised bones of dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth has been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say. Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall. Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it was as heavy as 14 African

DHAKA: National Democratic Alliance (NDA), where Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the key player, secured a landslide victory in India’s national Lok Sabha polls. The NDA won 337 seats out of 543 while ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) won 58 seats.

DHAKA: As soon as it became clear that he will be India’s 15th Prime Minister, Narendra Modi visited his mother, Hiraben, at her house in Gandhinagar. After he touched his mother’s feet, she blessed him by placing her hand on his head. He then tweeted a selfie of him seeking her

DHAKA: Narendra Modi, who will be India’s next prime minister, Friday informed Vadodara in Gujarat that his margin of victory there, 5.7 lakh votes, is a record. ‘Good days are...’ Modi began, ‘...will be here soon,’ roared Vadodara at his prompting. ‘The media wanted me to

DHAKA: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi won his seat from Amethi with 17,000 votes. He fought against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s candidate Smriti Irani. Detailed result has yet to come. Earlier, this Congress leader along with his mother also Congress president Sonia Gandhi

DHAKA: Speaking one after the other, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and deputy Rahul Gandhi owned responsibility this evening for their party’s debacle in the general elections. ‘Congress has done pretty badly, a lot for us to think about. As vice-president, I hold

DHAKA: From being a marginal player till recently, the BJP leapfrogged to the centre-stage of Bengal politics on Friday, emerging as a major force in a state swept by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). The TMC secured leads in as many as 34 out of the 42 seats but the BJP managed to

DHAKA: The Congress and the ruling Samajwadi Party have been washed away in the Modi wave, while Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party is out of race from all the 80 Lok Sabha seats, according to the leads so far. The BJP was ahead in 69 seats, SP in six followed by Congress on three. The