DHAKA: At least 20 bodies have been recovered after a boat carrying hundreds of passengers capsized on the River Niger, Mali, on Friday night, officials say.The vessel broke up near Konna whilst en route north from the town of Mopti to Timbuktu.Over 200 people are known to have survived

DHAKA: At least five people were killed as heavy rains and strong winds swept coastal Odisha ahead of cyclone Phailin’s landfall.Of the five dead, two died in Ganjam district, where the cyclone was likely to hit land. Two died in Jagatsinghpur district and one in Bhubaneswar.Four of the

DHAKA: The Phailin cyclone, that has brought Odisha bitter memories of a similar 1999 disaster that killed 10,000 people, is apprehended to hit landfall at Gopalpur Saturday evening.The sea has turned turbulent forcing the fishing vessels that had ventured into the deep sea to return,

DHAKA: The Phailin cyclone, that has brought Odisha bitter memories of a similar 1999 disaster that killed 10,000 people, is apprehended to hit landfall at Gopalpur Saturday evening.The sea has turned turbulent forcing the fishing vessels that had ventured into the deep sea to return,

DHAKA: With cyclone Phailin set to hit Odisha and Andhra Pradesh coasts this evening, air and rail traffic have been severely hit.At least 10 flights of Air India, Indigo and Jet Airways scheduled to arrive or take off from the Biju Patnaik International Airport in Bhubaneswar remained

DHAKA: An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude was detected in the Mediterranean Sea 80km west of Chania on the Greek island of Crete at 1311 GMT on Saturday.The US Geological Survey said, reports The Straits Times.The centre of the quake was 15km below the seabed, the organisation said.BDST: 2050

DHAKA: Cyclone Phailin, being described as possibly the biggest cyclone ever to hit India, has triggered India’s biggest evacuation programme in 23 years, reports said Saturday.Over 5 lakh people have been evacuated from Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, the Home Secretary said.‘Our main

DHAKA: Pakistan’s powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani said the army supports the government’s policy of dialogue with the Taliban to end the insurgency wracking the country.The main Pakistani political parties last month backed a government proposal to seek negotiations with the

DHAKA: US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden warned of dangers to democracy in the first video released of the fugitive since Russia granted him temporary asylum in August.‘If we can’t understand the policies and programmes of our government, we can’t grant our consent in regulating

DHAKA: The Phailin cyclone, that has brought Odisha bitter memories of a similar 1999 disaster that killed 10,000 people, is apprehended to hit landfall at Gopalpur at 8:00pm local time on Saturday.The sea has turned turbulent forcing the fishing vessels that had ventured into the deep

DHAKA: Thousands of separatists demanding secession took to the streets of Aden on Saturday to mark the anniversary in 1967 of the independence of former South Yemen.The demonstrators came from across the south and gathered on Parade Square in the centre of Aden, waving flags of the

DHAKA: British finance minister George Osborne will sign a deal in China next week allowing a Chinese state-run nuclear power company to help build a new plant in Britain, the Financial Times reported.The paper, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, said on Saturday that

DHAKA: The death of 130 rebels and civilians was an execution carried out by the Syrian government and its Shia allies, alleged Syria’s opposition Free Syrian Army Saturday.They were killed in the town of al-Ziyabiya amid battles to control southern Damascus suburbs, which began two

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama pressured Republican lawmakers on Saturday to agree to raise the US debt ceiling for longer than they would prefer, as their fiscal impasse dragged into the weekend with five days left to find a deal.The budget battle between Obama and Republicans who

DHAKA: At least seven people died in an explosion at a fireworks factory within a military complex, state media reported.The explosion on Saturday prompted the evacuation of some 2,000 people living near the Z121 military facility, around 120 kilometres north of Hanoi, police said, adding

DHAKA: North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an ‘all-out war’, urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as ‘nuclear blackmail’.In a thinly veiled threat to strike the United States, the North’s National Defence Commission (NDC), chaired

DHAKA: One of the world’s leading medical journals has supported the possibility that Yasser Arafat, the longtime Palestinian leader, was poisoned with the radioactive element polonium 210.The British ‘The Lancet’ journal has published a peer review of last year’s research by

DHAKA: Typhoon Nari pummelled the northern Philippines early Saturday, ripping roofs off buildings, killing 12 people and leaving more than two million people without electricity.Nari slammed into the country’s east coast around midnight local time, toppling trees and pylons as it cut a

DHAKA: More than 140 survivors, plucked from the sea after their overloaded boat sank in the latest deadly migrant tragedy to hit the Mediterranean, arrived in Malta on Saturday.The sinking killed more than 30, most of them women and children, when the boat packed with people desperate to

DHAKA: The strongest cyclone to threaten India in more than a decade bore down on its east coast on Saturday as authorities bused and trucked tens of thousands of villagers from their mud and thatch coastal homes to government shelters inland.With Cyclone Phailin apprehended to hit the