Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party yesterday clinched enough seats in parliament to elect a president and form a government when incoming lawmakers convene next year.

A court here yesterday sentenced three people to life imprisonment for killing a day labourer in the district in 2008.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has praised Myanmar's landmark elections as an important step toward democracy and "a triumph for Burmese people, who have clearly voiced their desire for change."

Law enforcers in separate drives arrested 52 BNP and Jamaat-Shibir men in six upazilas of the district on Monday night.

The United States welcomed Myanmar's landmark election Sunday, but warned of "important structural and systemic impediments" to

Myanmar's ruling party conceded defeat in a general election yesterday as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that could ensure it forms the next government.

This would be the dream scenario for Aung San Suu Kyi. An outright majority would give her National League for Democracy (NLD) party a much stronger footing in the jostling for who becomes president, a post that will decided by Myanmar's legislative chambers early next year. To do that, the NLD need to win 67 percent of the 491 seats available (323 in the lower house, 168 in the upper). In contrast,

Candidates in Myanmar enters their final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday's general election.

Delowar Hossain, 55, of Barobakpur in Jhalakathi's Rajapur, was just a boy during the Liberation War of 1971. Too young for active

Police arrested a youth and seized a pistol from his possession in Benapole bus stand area on Tuesday night.

A day after issuing arrest warrant against BNP standing committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, a Dhaka court sends the BNP leader to jail after he surrendered before it in an arson case.

Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore this weekend, the two sides said, in what will be the first meeting between leaders from the rivals since the end of a civil war in 1949.

Eight-year-old Abdullah Al Shabit is so deeply engrossed in the text before him that he's barely heard the question. “I'm reading Neel

A youth was shot dead by unknown criminals at Krishnapur village under Moheshpur upazila of the district on Saturday night.

US astronaut Scott Kelly touches a new milestone remaining away from Earth for the longest period in his single mission in the space.

A Gaibandha court sent Mahmuda Begum, 38, a woman member of Dhaperhat Union Parishad in Sadullapur upazila of the district, to jail

A professor in China invents a taxing new way of preventing students from turning up late for his classes.

Bangladesh went down two positions to 174 in the international ranking of World Bank’s (WB) Ease of Doing Business 2016 report.

Muggers allegedly shot a restaurant worker to death in Dhaka’s Motijheel area.

Malaysia increasingly resembles a "police state" as the government uses repressive laws to silence critics including those demanding the prime