Dhaka August 24, 2025, 9:23 pm
A onetime Somali refugee and the daughter of Palestinian immigrants shared the historic distinction Tuesday of becoming the first two Muslim women elected to the US Congress.
Donald Trump embarked on a whirlwind final push across three states Monday to stop Democrats from breaking his Republicans’ stranglehold on the US Congress in midterm elections amounting to a battle for the soul of the turbul
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will host their Chinese counterparts Friday in Washington for a round of high-level diplomatic and security talks, the US State Department announced.
US military aircraft laden with emergency supplies were flying in to the Northern Mariana Islands Saturday in the wake of destructive Super Typhoon Yutu which destroyed buildings and cut electricity supplies.
Air quality in Delhi continued to be in poor category for the third day on Wednesday
Zainab's father, Amin Ansari, said "I have seen his awe-inspiring end with my own eyes. They dropped him on the gallows, and let his body hang for half an hour,"
In a joint letter, the nine countries said the mission’s chairperson should brief the council to allow it to “receive further information on this situation and its implications for international peace and security.”
The victory marks Anwar’s official return to political life just five months after he was freed from jail, and will also be the first time that both he and Mahathir are members of parliament under the same banner after a bitt
‘Titli’ likely to move north-westwards further and may complete crossing the coast during next 2-3 hours, said a special bulletin of the weather office in Dhaka
US President Trump accepted Haley's resignation on Tuesday. But it was unclear when she would depart
Suu Kyi, once garlanded as a global rights champion, has seen a sharp fall from grace due to her failure to speak up following a brutal military crackdown on Myanmar’s Rohingya minority
Saudi national Jamal Khashoggi was last seen visiting the building last week. US President Donald Trump expressed concern about his fate on Monday
Two American economists, William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for integrating climate change and technological innovation into macroeconomic analysis
Meng is the latest high-profile disappearance in China, where a number of top government officials, billionaires and even an A-list celebrity have vanished in recent months
It was the deadliest transportation accident in the United States since a 2009 plane crash in Buffalo, New York, that killed 49 people
The 64-year-old Meng Hongwei was elected president of Interpol in November 2016. His term is due to run until 2020
The $5.4 billion (around Rs 40,000 crore) deal was concluded during the 19th India-Russia Annual Bilateral Summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin, though both the leaders made no ment
Putin and Modi, who appear to enjoy a personal rapport, are also likely to discuss a deal for four Krivak-class frigates worth $2 billion and 200 light utility Ka-226 helicopters pegged at $1 billion
Iran took the US to court after it re-imposed sanctions on the back of abandoning a nuclear deal in May
The sanctions, under discussion at the European Commission, would include Myanmar’s lucrative textile industry and potentially put at risk thousands of jobs there but would not come into effect immediately, giving the EU leve
