Preparations for a grand celebration are in full swing among India’s Bharatiya Janata Party workers and supporters after the party and its allies are heading for a victory for the second successive term.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded release of Nanda, a broadcast journalist who has been “held without charges” in Myanmar.

The BJP, confident of winning the national election and returning to power with a huge majority, has asked some 20,000 workers to come to the party headquarters in Delhi this evening, reports Indian news portal NDTV.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party has won the general election, a senior party leader said today.

Hours before the counting of votes are to start declaring the verdict of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appeared to have taken refuge in music to cool her nerves. She took to keyboard and played a Rabindra Sangeet tune, as seen in a video posted on Facebook from her official handle.

The US government is lobbying South Korea not to use Huawei Technologies Co Ltd products, a South Korean newspaper reports, amid a wider push by Washington to get its allies to reject the Chinese tech firm's goods.

Industries in northeastern China have spewed large quantities of an ozone-depleting gas into the atmosphere in violation of an international treaty, scientists say.

The Lok Sabha elections 2019 were one of the most highly-charged parliamentary elections in the country in recent years. Nearly all the big names in Indian politics contested. Many new faces emerged and new political parties were formed.

Four members of a family including two minors have been killed in an explosion caused by gas line leak in Gazipur city, police say.

President Donald Trump drops the pretense of working with congressional Democrats on Wednesday and sent a clear message that his re-election campaign will be centered on condemning overzealous investigations rather than advancing a robust domestic policy agenda.

Riding on the crest of an unprecedented Modi surge across most parts of India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party storms back to power to rule India for five more years with a historic mandate in parliamentary elections that saw a saffron sweep bigger than the party got five years ago.

China's foreign minister has slammed US moves against telecom giant Huawei as "economic bullying", and warned that Beijing was ready to "fight to the very end" in its trade war with Washington.

Ekushey Padak winner and one of the most prominent Nazrul exponents in the country, Khalid Hossain passes away at a hospital in Dhaka. He was 78.

Breaking his silence, Congress party president Rahul Gandhi terms parliamentary election exit polls results as “fraudulent” and urges the party men to be alert.

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Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal has reiterated that tax would be realized and the exiting tax net would be further widened but it will not hurt the taxpayers.

Abul Bajandar, also known as “tree-man” for his extremely rare skin disorder on hands and feet, has resumed his treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after he “voluntarily” left treatment last year.

The High Court will deliver its verdict on the rule over compensating Tk 1 crore to the family of Rajib Hossain, who died after losing his hand that got stuck between two buses in the capital last year.

The High Court seeks for Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha’s (Rajuk) fourth-amended layout plan that demonstrated the forest, open spaces, playgrounds, parks and waterbodies in Purbachol project and its proposed fifth layout plan for the project.

Samsung Mobile Bangladesh has launched Galaxy A70 in Bangladesh.