DHAKA: Nine people have been killed and 17 others injured in a bus accident at Nagaon in Assam on Sunday at around 2:00am in the morning. The bus belonged to the Assam State Transport Corporation and was going from Lakhimpur district to the state capital of Guwahati. A total of 33

DHAKA: Millions of Brazilians are set to vote for a new president in what correspondents say is the tightest vote the country has seen in decades. Incumbent left-leaning president Dilma Rousseff of the Workers Party (PT) faces centrist Aecio Neves of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party

DHAKA: The next time you take a flight in India, keep your fingers crossed and hope that your pilot is flying on a valid licence, not a lapsed one. Air India has discovered that as many as 102 pilots of its wide body Boeing fleet have been flying without clearing a mandatory test that

DHAKA: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters are set to hold a street poll on Sunday and Monday on the next steps for a mass movement that has paralyzed parts of the semi-autonomous Chinese city. The vote, which will take place from 7:00pm to 11:00pm local time on Sunday and again on

DHAKA: Tunisia is set to elect its first full parliament under a new constitution passed earlier this year, BBC reports.  The election is one of the final stages in the political transition which followed the ousting of authoritarian leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011. There are no

DHAKA: Nine people have been killed and 17 others injured in a bus accident at Nagaon in Assam, ndtv.com reports.  The bus belonged to the Assam State Transport Corporation and was going from Lakhimpur district to the state capital of Guwahati. The bus was reportedly speeding and had

DHAKA: The death toll from the Ebola epidemic has risen to 4,922 out of 10,141 recorded infections, with three West African countries accounting for most of the cases through October 23, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have reported 4,912 deaths

DHAKA: At least 27 Egyptian security personnel were killed and 30 more injured  in a car bombing in the country's Sinai region, CNN reports.  At least 28 other people were injured in the attack, which took place at a checkpoint in Karam al Qawadees in North Sinai's Sheikh Zuwaid

DHAKA: Iraqi security forces have retaken most of the town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (IS) militants, the biggest gains in months of fighting for the strategic area.Senior local officials said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Full control

DHAKA: Rock star Elton John teamed up with the Obama administration to launch a new US$7 million fund to provide access to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) services in South Africa.The fund will be established for men who have sex with men and transgender people in the nation, the

DHAKA: Sixteen workers were killed after a coal mine collapsed in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, highlighting the poor safety standards in the world's biggest coal producing country.The accident occurred in the regional

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama commended New Yorkers for their calm reaction to the city’s first case of Ebola and told Americans in his weekly address that the response to domestic cases of the deadly disease needs to be based on ‘facts, not fear’.It was the second week in a

DHAKA: Myanmar’s press council on Saturday said the army had admitted to shooting dead a man in its custody who activists claim was a reporter detained after covering clashes near the conflict-hit eastern border.Aung Naing was gunned down as he tried to flee detention in Kyaikmaraw

DHAKA: Iran has executed a woman Reyhaneh Jabbari who killed a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her. Jabbari’s mother says, reports the BBC. Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged in a Tehran prison despite an international campaign urging a reprieve. Jabbari was arrested in 2007

DHAKA: A senior Google vice president, Alan Eustace, has broken the world altitude record for a parachute jump set in 2012 by Austrian Felix Baumgartner. Eustace was carried by a large helium balloon from New Mexico to over 40km (25 miles) above the earth. The 57-year-old leapt out in a

DHAKA: Egypt has declared a three-month state of emergency in parts of the Sinai Peninsula after at least 31 soldiers were killed in two attacks there. President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has declared three days of mourning in the wake of the suspected jihadist attacks. Egypt's Rafah

DHAKA: At least 10 soldiers were killed and 27 injured in a car bomb in al-Kharouba area northwest of al-Arish in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Friday.The security sources said the bomb was blasted targeting two armored vehicles stopped at a checkpoint, reports the Jerusalem

DHAKA: Britain's Queen Elizabeth-II sent her first ever tweet during a visit to a museum Friday, signing it "Elizabeth R" - and even removing a glove to post it.The 88-year-old's Twitter debut came during a visit to London's Science Museum as she opened a new gallery dedicated to the

DHAKA: One million doses of an Ebola vaccine will be produced by the end of 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.It said ‘several hundred thousand’ would be produced in the first half of the year, reports the BBC.And vaccines could be offered to health workers on

DHAKA: Nine people were killed and dozens of people injured as a bus crowded with people has veered off a mountain highway near Katmandu in Nepal on Friday.Police said they were heading home for a festival, reports the NDTV.com.Police are trying to identify the bodies and believe one