The Congress in Assam says that the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), which excluded 1.9 million people, will end suspicions that there were tens of millions of illegal immigrants in Assam.

The 1.9 million people excluded from Assam's controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC), a list intended to identify illegal immigrants in Assam, will be provided with legal help, says Assam government.

Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the National Register of Citizens or NRC -- the list intended to identify legal residents and weed out illegal immigrants from the northeastern state - cannot be viewed as a "red letter" for the Assamese society, reports NDTV.

About 19.7 lakh people have been excluded from the much-awaited final National Register of Citizens (NRC) of Indian citizens in Assam which was published today.

The account of Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey is hacked, sending public tweets and retweets including racial slurs and curse words to 4 million followers before Twitter secured the account.

Fires raging in the Amazon pose a risk to health including from respiratory diseases, especially in children, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Thousands march in a meandering tour of downtown Hong Kong in the pouring rain, the latest in a series of pro-democracy protests that have plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades.

A listed “criminal” has been killed in a reported gunfight with detectives in Madhabdi municipality area of Narsingdi.

India announces further liberalisation of medical visa regime for foreign nationals, allowing them to get indoor treatment on their primary (original) visa.

A college student rapes a seven-year-old boy in Chowgachha upazila of Jashore, police have said.

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A man is detained in connection with slaughtering a horse and selling its meat among the villagers in Biral upazila of Dinajpur, police have said.

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak assures full support from his office to the Dhaka University authorities to ensure a campus equipped with modern technology.

Police claim to have arrested an alleged member of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from Kuril-Bishwa road in Dhaka.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the people to remain cautious so that the country does not go under the control of the evil forces who were involved in August 15 massacre.

Malaysia’s acting high commissioner to Bangladesh has said his country, which is already enjoying a strong bilateral relation with Bangladesh, wants to further improve it through trade and tourism as the Southeast Asian country strives to become a high-income country while Bangladesh moves towards becoming a middle-income nation.

A total of 19 persons, including four Bangladeshi nationals, have been sentenced to different terms of jail in a case filed over the infamous bomb blast which took place in West Bengal’s Burdwan district in 2014.

Three boys are found dead at an imam’s room adjacent to a mosque in Motlab upazila of Chandpur, police say.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has constituted 11 High Court (HC) benches with its 17 judges for disposing of cases during the ongoing annual vacation.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi are likely to have a brief meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September.