DHAKA: Indonesia will stop sending new domestic workers to 21 middle eastern countries, reports said Tuesday, after the recent execution of two Indonesian women in Saudi Arabia angered Jakarta.The ban affects countries including Saudi Arabia - a major destination for Indonesian maids -

DHAKA: The name of the Princess of Cambridge has finally been revealed to the world as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.In a touching tribute, the little girl, who was born on Saturday, has been named in honor of her grandfather, her grandmother and her great-grandmother, reports

DHAKA: India’s defense minister said Monday that final negotiations to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France would start this month and end as soon as possible, after leaders of the two nations announced the deal last month.On the eve of a visit by his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le

DHAKA: Nepal has asked foreign countries to wrap up search and rescue operations nine days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 7,200 people, now there is no hope of finding people alive in the rubble.Dozens of countries sent teams to look for survivors after the Himalayan

DHAKA: Thailand’s police have arrested a man they believe is the key figure behind a brutal human trafficking network that ran a jungle camp where dozens of bodies have been found.Soe Naing, widely known as Anwar, was detained on Wednesday as the authorities closed in on a camp near the

DHAKA: Two gunmen opened fire at an anti-Islam art show featuring depictions of the Prophet Mohammad in Garland, Texas, near Dallas on Sunday.They were later shot dead by police at the scene, a local CBS television affiliate and other local media reported, citing Garland police.A guard

DHAKA: Nearly 5,800 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya and 10 bodies were recovered in less than 48 hours, Italy’s coast guard said, in one of the biggest rescue operations this year.Two weeks after nearly 900 boat people drowned in the worst Mediterranean shipwreck

DHAKA: The United States city of Baltimore is attempting to return to normalcy, lifting a citywide curfew and withdrawing the National Guard following violence over the death in police custody of Freddie Gray, a young black man.Six days after the death of Gray, 25, sparked riots,

DHAKA: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 hit the near the New Zealand South Island resort towns of Queenstown and Wanaka.The US Geological Survey said on Monday, reports the Jerusalem Post.The quake was centered 59 km (36 miles) north of Queenstown at a depth of 10 km (six miles)

DHAKA: At least eight Assam Rifles personnel have been killed and six others injured in an ambush by suspected NSCN (K) militants in Mon district of Nagaland on Sunday afternoon. Four other jawans of the paramilitary force are reported missing, reports the Times of India.A security source

DHAKA: Rescuers have pulled a 101-year-old man alive from his ruined home a week after Nepal’s earthquake, even as the government warned on Sunday that toll, already exceeding 7,200, would climb ‘much higher’.Trapped since April 25 when the quake struck, Funchu Tamang was rescued

DHAKA: A 101-year-old man was pulled alive from the rubble of his house in Nepal seven days after it collapsed in a deadly earthquake.Police said Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The man was rescued on Saturday and is now in hospital, according to Arun Kumar Singh, a local police

DHAKA: Dozens of gunmen from criminal gangs kidnapped seven Pakistani police from a checkpoint in the normally peaceful province of Punjab on Sunday.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.The kidnapping, and further fighting between insurgents and the military in the northwest of the

DHAKA: At least 10 Bangladeshis were among the dead, along with at least 30 Rohingya, in remote jungle near the site of a mass grave in Songkhla province of Thailand, where over 800 refugees were being held in several camps.Thailand-based English daily The Bangkok Post reported on Sunday,

DHAKA: The Saudi-led coalition battling an air campaign against Yemeni rebels has been using United States-supplied cluster bombs.Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday, warning of the long-term dangers to civilians, reports The Straits Times.The widely banned munitions

DHAKA: Cradled in her mother’s arms, Britain’s new sleeping princess was welcomed into the outside world Saturday with joyous cheers, a forest of camera phones and a sea of flags.It was both a traditional and very 21st-century moment as Prince William and his wife Kate emerged from

DHAKA: More than 3,400 migrants were rescued at sea Saturday, mainly off Libya, as Europe seeks ways to deal with the flood of people trying to reach its shores following a series of deadly shipwrecks.A total of 3,427 people were picked up during the operation coordinated by the Italian

DHAKA: Several hundred Yazidi captives have been killed in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants west of Mosul.Yazidi and Iraqi officials say, reports the BBC.A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party said 300 captives were killed on Friday in the Tal Afar district near the city.Iraqi

DHAKA: The United Nations has urged Nepal to relax customs controls which it says are holding up deliveries of aid to survivors of last week's earthquake.UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Nepal had a duty to provide faster customs clearance for relief supplies.Many people are yet to

DHAKA: Nigeria troops have freed some 700 women and children from Boko Haram’s Sambisa forest stronghold over the past week, but uncertainty remained on Saturday over the fate of 219 girls seized from their school in Chibok last year in a kidnapping that sparked global outrage.In the