DHAKA: France is to host a security summit on the threat from Boko Haram Islamists, after they abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria in April. Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan and other West African leaders will attend the talks in Paris. On Friday Jonathan was due to visit

DHAKA: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi may offer to resign, sources say, a day after they both accepted responsibility for the party's worst performance ever in the national election. According to Congress party sources, they are likely to make the offer at a

DHAKA: United States President Barack Obama called up Indian prime minister-designate Narendra Modi and congratulated him on his "emphatic election victory", officials said. Obama on Friday said that the largest democracy in the world has given a "decisive mandate" and that he wished

DHAKA: Fossilised bones of dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth has been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say. Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall. Weighing in at 77 tonnes, it was as heavy as 14 African

DHAKA: National Democratic Alliance (NDA), where Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the key player, secured a landslide victory in India’s national Lok Sabha polls. The NDA won 337 seats out of 543 while ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) won 58 seats.

DHAKA: As soon as it became clear that he will be India’s 15th Prime Minister, Narendra Modi visited his mother, Hiraben, at her house in Gandhinagar. After he touched his mother’s feet, she blessed him by placing her hand on his head. He then tweeted a selfie of him seeking her

DHAKA: Narendra Modi, who will be India’s next prime minister, Friday informed Vadodara in Gujarat that his margin of victory there, 5.7 lakh votes, is a record. ‘Good days are...’ Modi began, ‘...will be here soon,’ roared Vadodara at his prompting. ‘The media wanted me to

DHAKA: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi won his seat from Amethi with 17,000 votes. He fought against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s candidate Smriti Irani. Detailed result has yet to come. Earlier, this Congress leader along with his mother also Congress president Sonia Gandhi

DHAKA: Speaking one after the other, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her son and deputy Rahul Gandhi owned responsibility this evening for their party’s debacle in the general elections. ‘Congress has done pretty badly, a lot for us to think about. As vice-president, I hold

DHAKA: From being a marginal player till recently, the BJP leapfrogged to the centre-stage of Bengal politics on Friday, emerging as a major force in a state swept by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). The TMC secured leads in as many as 34 out of the 42 seats but the BJP managed to

DHAKA: The Congress and the ruling Samajwadi Party have been washed away in the Modi wave, while Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party is out of race from all the 80 Lok Sabha seats, according to the leads so far. The BJP was ahead in 69 seats, SP in six followed by Congress on three. The

DHAKA: Narendra Modi, who wanted to be Sanyasi (saint) in his early childhood, already became to-be prime minister of India on Friday. Many don’t know that Modi also ran a tea stall. An Indian non-government organization called Niti Central revealed on its website some facts about

DHAKA: As she savoured the prospect of her brother Narendra becoming India’s prime minister, Vasantiben Modi chortled at the idea that a one-time tea boy would soon be calling the shots over Delhi’s traditional elite. ‘They can’t believe it, can’t believe that someone from such

DHAKA: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) seems to be a heading for a dream debut in Punjab with its three candidates leading in Sangrur, Faridkot and Fatehgarh Sahib parliamentary seats, much to the unease of ruling Akali Dal-BJP coalition government in this border state. Leading the pack of

DHAKA: A Russian Proton rocket carrying an advanced communication satellite fell back to Earth on Friday shortly after liftoff in the latest accident to hit the country’s once-proud space industry. Russian space officials said the rocket’s control engine failed 545 seconds after it

DHAKA: BJP general secretary Varun Gandhi, 34, has won from Sultanpur, a constituency which neighbours Amethi. He defeated Amita Singh, a former national badminton champion and former MP Sanjay Singh’s wife. Singh, who romped home from the constituency in 2009, was earlier this year

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh congratulated Narendra Modi over BJP's victory in Lok Sabha elections.  Manmohan calls Modi and greeted him on his party's victory in the elections. Narendra Modi declared as the winner from Vadodara and also won in Varanasi by 50,319 votes

DHAKA: Narendra Modi appears all set to be the next Prime Minister with BJP likely to get a majority on its own, wresting power from Congress which is on the path of recording its worst ever performance in the Lok Sabha polls. According to a report, Modi will take oath on May 21.

DHAKA: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Friday congratulated prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over the party’s performance in the Lok Sabha polls and said that the trends indicate ‘a landslide’ for the party. In a message on Twitter, Rajnath Singh described the BJP’s

DHAKA: An oil painting of Pakistani schoolgirl and campaigner Malala Yousafzai has been sold for $82,000 at an auction in New York. The 16-year-old was shot in the head in 2012 by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education. The artwork by British artist Jonathan Yeo was originally