Dhaka: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairman Tarique Rahman is all set to be the Prime Minister of the country after his party’s Members of Parliament elected him as leader of the parliamentary party, making it official. The development came even as all the newly elected members of parliament from across the parties took the oath…
United Nations: India’s permanent contribution to the agenda of the international community and that of the UN is of “enormous importance for us”, the UN chief has said, as he pointed to a “positive mega trend” of the increasingly enhanced roles of developing economies like India in the world. These remarks were made by Secretary…
Dhaka: Outgoing interim government chief Muhammad Yunus on Monday said his 18-month rule restored three core pillars of Bangladesh’s external engagement – “sovereignty, national interests, and dignity”, and it is no longer a “submissive” nation. In his farewell address to the nation, Yunus said that at the end of his regime’s rule, “Today’s Bangladesh is…
Dhaka: Four candidates from minority communities, including two Hindus, won in the recent general elections in Bangladesh, with all being nominees of the BNP, which is set to form the government on Tuesday. Goyeshwar Chandra Roy and Nitai Roy Chowdhury are the two Hindu candidates who won on a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) ticket. They…
United Nations: India is a “very successful” emerging economy with a bigger influence in global affairs, and is the “right place” to host the AI summit, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. In an exclusive interview with PTI at the UN Headquarters ahead of the India–AI Impact Summit 2026, Guterres underscored that Artificial Intelligence should…
Munich: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday met his counterparts from the G7 countries as he reiterated India’s support for reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC) at the Munich Security Conference. The meeting comes after India concluded a free trade agreement (FTA) with the 27-nation European Union in January. Jaishankar in a social…
New York: An Indian national, Nikhil Gupta, pleaded guilty on Friday in a federal court in Manhattan to charges linked to an alleged assassination plot targeting a Sikh separatist leader, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, in the United States, reported The New York Times. Gupta admitted to all three charges, including murder-for-hire and conspiracy counts, during proceedings…
Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump has said that a change in power in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen” as the U.S. administration weighs whether to take military action against Tehran. Trump made the comments shortly after visiting with troops in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, and after he confirmed earlier in the…
Dhaka: A referendum on the implementation of a reform package saw a 60.26 per cent voter turnout in Bangladesh, with the ‘yes’ vote winning a clear majority, the Election Commission announced Friday. The voting for the 13th parliamentary elections was held on Thursday, along with the referendum on the complex 84-point reform package, known as…
London: An India-France Business Dialogue in London set the stage for the upcoming AI Impact Summit in New Delhi next week, the first international artificial intelligence gathering of its kind to be held in the Global South anchored on the principles of people, planet and progress. The dialogue at the High Commission of India in…
