Joe Biden beats Trump in election, becomes America’s 46th President
Joe Biden has clinched enough states to win the 270 electoral votes needed to become president, The Associated Press declared on Saturday, a day after Decision Desk HQ also called the race for Biden. The Democratic candidates victory was cemented after Pennsylvania was called for the two-term former vice president under Barack Obama. Various news […]
Bangladesh opens first Islamic school for transgender persons
DHAKA: Bangladesh opened its first Islamic school for transgender Muslims on Friday with clerics calling it a first step towards integrating the discriminated minority into society. The madressah is one of a series of recent steps in Bangladesh to make life easier for the nation’s up to 1.5 million transgender people. The LGBT community faces […]
US sets record for cases amid election battle over coronavirus
New confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the US have climbed to an all-time high of more than 86,000 per day on average, in a glimpse of the worsening crisis that lies ahead for the winner of the presidential election. Cases and hospitalisations are setting records all around the country just as the holidays and […]
Joe Biden Vows To Rejoin Paris Climate Agreement
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has pledged that his administration would rejoin the historic Paris Agreement on climate change. Biden, 77, has not won the presidential elections yet, but is inching closer to be declared the winner by garnering 253 electoral votes out of the required 270. His Republican rival and incumbent US President Donald […]
Trump Accuses Biden Campaign Of Fraud, Says ‘Will Demand Supreme Court To Stop Vote Counting’
US President Donald Trump, addressing a press conference at a little past 2 am on Wednesday local time, accused the Joe Biden campaign of election fraud, and said he would move the US Supreme Court. “We want all voting (read counting) to stop,” he said, in an address from the White House. “We were going […]
Counting of votes begin in US; Biden takes early lead
Washington:Democratic candidate Joe Biden has taken an early lead against Republican incumbent Donald Trump as the counting of votes in the crucial US presidential election began on Tuesday night. Polling was yet to conclude in various states in the West Coast as states in the other parts of the country started counting of votes at […]
Donald Trump Or Joe Biden, Times They Are a-Changin’
People are crazy and times are strange I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range I used to care, but things have changed American poet, singer and Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan wasn’t referring to the US elections when he sang those lines, but he just as easily could have. Ever since Donald Trump, riding on […]
Tens of thousands take part in BD rally, call for action against France
DHAKA: Tens of thousands of Bangladeshis took to the streets of the capital on Monday to call for action against France, the latest protest by Muslims opposed to French President Emmanuel Macron’s defence of the right to publish cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him). France has been on edge since September when Charlie […]
Stage set for Umra by foreign pilgrims
MAKKAH: After a seven-month hiatus, some 10,000 pilgrims were scheduled to arrive in Saudi Arabia from abroad to perform Umra and visit Masjid-i-Nabawi in Madina on Sunday, the first day of the third stage of the resumption of Umra. The 10,000 international pilgrims will first have to obtain a permit and upon their arrival in […]
Germany sets new virus curbs as global cases rise
PARIS: Germany on Wednesday imposed drastic curbs on people’s daily lives to contain a surge in coronavirus cases and France was set to follow suit as more than 500,000 infections were reported worldwide in a new daily record. The deepening gloom across the continent and other parts of the world contrasted with the jubilation in […]
