Three-time BJP lawmaker Om Birla was elected Lok Sabha Speaker for the second time on Wednesday. Despite nominating Congress lawmaker K Suresh as an opposition candidate, the Congress-led India alliance
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for ‘high participation’ in Friday’s presidential election to replace Ebrahim Raisi, who died last month in a helicopter crash. ‘We emphasise the importance
Taiwan’s president Lai Ching-te said Monday that China ‘has no right to punish’ Taiwanese people for their views or advocacy, after Beijing warned ‘diehard’ supporters of the island’s independence could
A day after Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the ‘intense phase’ of the Gaza war is winding down, the army bombed Hamas on Monday as the Palestinian militant group
Attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia’s Dagestan region killed 15 police officers and four civilians, officials said on Monday, stoking fears over Islamist violence in the historically restive North
Police arrested a ‘mentally challenged’ woman for stabbing four schoolgirls in a classroom in Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha district on Tuesday. The arrested was identified as Jannati Akter of village
Hamas-run Gaza’s health ministry said on Sunday that at least 37,084 people have been killed in the territory during more than eight months of war between Israel and Palestinian militants.
French president Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced that he was dissolving parliament and called snap legislative elections after the far-right trounced his centrist alliance in EU polls. The first round
Suspicious transactions linking to money laundering are growing in the county amid the resource crunch caused by a persistent dollar shortage. According to a budget document, the Bangladesh Financial Intelligent
Once shunned and now eagerly courted by the West, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has steered his country away from its secular traditions and towards the Hindu-first politics he has