West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said yesterday all who came from Bangladesh and have been casting votes in elections were Indian citizens and did not require to apply for citizenship afresh.

Indian government says police have arrested hundreds of people for their alleged involvement in the recent violence in Delhi, while a close watch is being kept on social media platforms to check rumours and unfounded propaganda.

UN agencies and NGO partners launch the 2020 Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis, seeking to raise USD 877 million to respond to the needs of approximately 855,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar and over 444,000 vulnerable Bangladeshis in Cox’s Bazar.

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The death toll from coronavirus in Italy jumps to 52 and the total number of confirmed cases in Europe’s worst affected country climbs past the 2,000 mark.

A deadly blast shatters a period of relative calm in Afghanistan and the Taliban order fighters to resume operations against Afghan forces just two days after signing a deal to usher in peace.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday vowed to keep the doors open for migrants heading for Europe, as he mounted pressure on Western countries to give Turkey more assistance with the Syrian conflict.

China is transferring tens of thousands of Uighur detainees out of internment camps and into factories that supply some of the world’s leading brands, an Australian think tank said Monday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday alleged that the violence in north east Delhi was “state-sponsored genocide” and the BJP was trying to replicate the “Gujarat model of riots” across the country.

Myanmar soldiers swooped on several illicit drugs labs to seize nearly $27 million of narcotics, chemicals and equipment, military

British and EU trade negotiators embarked on high-stakes talks aimed at forging a new post-Brexit relationship yesterday. The

A bombing at a football match yesterday killed three people and injured 11 others in eastern Afghanistan, a police official told AFP, as

At least 50 people were killed in multiple attacks by armed ‘bandits’ on villages in an area of northern Nigeria rife with cattle theft and

A sacked security guard who shot one person and took about 30 others hostage at a Manila shopping mall on Monday surrendered to

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles yesterday, the South’s military said, weeks after Pyongyang threatened to demonstrate a “new strategic weapon” and its deadline for Washington to offer sanctions relief expired.

Israel held its third election in less than a year yesterday seeking to break a grinding political deadlock, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chasing re-election while facing criminal indictment.

Taliban militants will not take part in intra-Afghan talks until about 5,000 of its prisoners are released, a spokesman said yesterday, presenting a major possible barrier to ending the war.

Protest-torn Iraq faced more political gridlock yesterday after prime minister-designate Mohammed Allawi withdrew overnight, accusing lawmakers of obstructing his attempt to form a government.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says in a tweet that he plans to give up his social media accounts on various platforms, including Twitter and Facebook.

German Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Fahrenholtz says that Germany is looking forward to further deepen bilateral relations with Bangladesh and would remain committed in its future partnership with the country.