DHAKA: Congress leaders have conceded defeat ahead of results to Lok Sabha polls, compounding the negativity triggered by the sudden disappearance of Rahul Gandhi's 'face' from party headquarters. Senior leader Rashid Alvi said Congress will not be in a position to dictate the power play

DHAKA: The counting of votes will start at 8:00am. By 11am, a clear picture pointing to the single largest party or alliance may emerge. The final results should be out by 4:00pm in Indian lok Shaba election. After a marathon 9-phase voting, which recorded the highest voter turnout ever

DHAKA: As the BJP leadership on Thursday continued deliberations for government formation, there were indications that BJP stalwart L K Advani may agree to be Lok Sabha Speaker if the results bear out the forecast of exit polls. Party sources said Advani, who is decades senior to PM

DHAKA: Congress leaders have conceded defeat ahead of results to Lok Sabha polls, compounding the negativity triggered by the sudden disappearance of Rahul Gandhi's 'face' from party headquarters.Senior leader Rashid Alvi said Congress will not be in a position to dictate the power play

DHAKA: British prime minister David Cameron urged Scots on Thursday to stay in the United Kingdom during an unusual two-day visit to Scotland to counter a rise in support for secession in opinion polls and criticism of the anti-independence campaign.Cameron has so far taken a low-profile

DHAKA: Malaysia Airlines said one of its planes was grounded Thursday after a service vehicle struck the aircraft’s belly, the latest incident to dent the carrier’s image after the disappearance of flight MH370. The airline said the passengers on the Myanmar-bound plane were put on a

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin, his popularity driven up by the crisis in Ukraine, is firmly on course to win a new term in 2018 if he decides to run. An independent polling agency said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times. A survey by the Levada research group found 81

DHAKA: Afghanistan’s election commission announced on Thursday that the country’s presidential election is going into second round, with the two top vote getters to face off on June 14. The race will likely be tight between the two contenders, former foreign minister Abdullah

DHAKA: The number of people detected trying to enter the EU illegally in 2013 rose by nearly half on 2012, with nearly one in four from Syria. A EU agency reports, says the BBC. A total of 107,000 detections were registered by the EU’s borders agency, Frontex, compared with 72,500 in

DHAKA: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 hit a fresh snag on Thursday after it was found that the underwater drone at the heart of the operation had been damaged, forcing what could be another lengthy delay. The Australian agency coordinating the search effort, now in

DHAKA: Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party’s chief campaigner in the national election, is being sharply criticised for skipping his mother Sonia Gandhi’s farewell dinner for prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday. Several Congress leaders Thursday tried to defend Gandhi saying he

DHAKA: Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon at thousands of protesters on Thursday, as a 24-hour strike got underway over a deadly mine explosion. Police intervened twice when around 20,000 protesters took to the streets in the western city of Izmir to protest the death of 282

DHAKA: Thailand’s army chief warned on Thursday that the military may ‘use force’ if political violence escalates in a six-month crisis which has left 28 people dead and hundreds wounded. ‘If violence continues the military may need to come out... to restore peace and order,’

DHAKA: Jayalalithaa, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, has expelled a leader from her party for suggesting that she will ally with Narendra Modi, widely expected to be India’s next prime minister.   K Malaisamy, a former parliamentarian from the AIADMK, said that Modi ‘is a great

DHAKA:Former US president Bill Clinton has praised the strength and health of his wife, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, dismissing a top Republican’s public doubts about her well-being. ‘As far as I can tell, she’s in better shape than I am,’ Clinton, a Democrat, said of

DHAKA: Villagers in an area of Nigeria where Boko Haram operates have killed and detained scores of fighters who were suspected of planning a fresh attack. The residents and a security official said, reports Al Jazeera. Locals in Nigeria’s northern states have been forming vigilante

DHAKA: The captain and three other crew members of the Sewol, the South Korean ferry that sank last month, have been charged with murder, chief prosecutor Yang Joon-jin said Thursday. The captain, Lee Joon-seok, along with the chief engineer, and the first and second mates, could face

DHAKA: Trade unions in Turkey have announced a one-day strike in protest at the country's worst ever mine disaster which has claimed at least 274 lives. Union officials said the recent privatisation of the mining sector had made working conditions more dangerous. Three days of mourning

DHAKA: In a surprise move, the New York Times newspaper has announced that it has replaced executive editor Jill Abramson - the first woman to lead the paper - with immediate effect. Dean Baquet, 57, the paper's managing editor, has been named as the replacement. Arthur Sulzberger Jr,

DHAKA: Two anti-government protesters have been killed and 22 others injured in an attack in the Thai capital, Bangkok, police say. Witnesses reported explosions and gunfire at a protest camp at the city's Democracy Monument. Protesters have been pressing the Senate to replace the