DHAKA: Beijing on Wednesday dismissed the possibility of the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet, days after the exiled spiritual leader indicated he was in contact with Chinese officials over a historic pilgrimage.‘Our position on the Dalai Lama is consistent and clear,’ Chinese

DHAKA: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has declared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this year to Eric Betzig, Stefan W Hell and William E Moerner ‘for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy’.Eric Betzig works at Janelia Farm Research Campus and William E.

DHAKA: Talks between pro-democracy protesters and government officials in Hong Kong will be held on Friday.Officials say, reports the BBC.The talks will discuss ‘legal implementations of these political reforms’, said Lau Kong-wah, government undersecretary, referring to the 2017

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) militants withdrew from some parts of the embattled Syrian town of Kobane overnight after air strikes by a US-led coalition, a monitor said October 8.Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said ‘fighters from the (IS)

DHAKA: Hundreds of children have been killed by the Ebola epidemic ravaging west Africa, yet for the thousands spared, the grim struggle for survival has only just begun. Children across Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are finding themselves alone in the world, ostracised by communities

DHAKA: Stargazers in the Americas and Asia will be treated to a lunar eclipse on Wednesday, a celestial show that will bathe the moon in red to create a ‘blood moon’. During the total lunar eclipse, which will last several hours, the Earth will pass between the sun and the moon. As

DHAKA: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck in China's Yunnan province on Tuesday.The United States Geological Survey said this which reports Yahoo.com.The USGS said the quake’s epicenter was 163 km (101 miles) north-northwest of Yunjinghong and 10 km deep.BDST: 2105 HRS, OCT 7,

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra Modi has assets worth Rs 1.26 crore, according to details of assets and liabilities of the Union Council of Ministers uploaded on the PMO website.While finance and defence minister Arun Jaitley turns out to be the richest with assets totaling Rs

DHAKA: Myanmar on Tuesday pledged to release thousands of prisoners a month before a Southeast Asian summit, which US president Barack Obama and other leaders from outside the region are expected to attend.Myanmar president Thein Sein pardoned 3,073 prisoners for the sake of ‘peace

DHAKA: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday declared the names of Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura for the Nobel Prize in Physics for this year.Isamu Akasaki works at Meijo University, and Nagoya University and Hiroshi AmanoAt Nagoya University in Japan while

DHAKA: A US drone strike has killed at least eight people in Pakistan’s volatile tribal region of North Waziristan. Officials say, reports the BBC. Reports say two missiles hit a house and a car in the Shawal region late on Monday. It is the fourth drone strike to hit the tribal area

DHAKA: Representatives of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters have agreed to hold formal talks with the government. No date has been set but the students made it clear the talks would be called off if the remaining demonstrators were cleared from the streets by force. As the protests

DHAKA: A lightning strike killed 11 members of an indigenous tribe in northern Colombia Monday after an electrical storm broke out during an early morning ritual. Helicopters airlifted 13 injured people to hospitals for treatment, Gen. German Saavedra told reporters.The lightning

DHAKA: A crowded bus skidded off a hilly road in far-western Nepal on Monday, killing at least 23 people and injuring 40 others, while heavy rain hampered rescue efforts, stasiareport.com reports.  The passenger bus, packed with people travelling during the country's busy holiday season

DHAKA: French prime minister Manuel Valls during a visit to London on Monday warned that Britain would ‘lose a lot’ if it were to leave the European Union. ‘Britain, and in particular the City, would lose a lot if it were to turn its back on Europe,’ Valls told executives in a

DHAKA: The New York Times newspaper has apologised for a cartoon on India’s Mars Mission following readers’ complaints that it mocked India. The cartoon showed a farmer with a cow knocking at the door of a room marked Elite Space Club where two men sit reading a newspaper on

DHAKA: The next phase of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has begun in the southern Indian Ocean. A ship equipped with specialised sonar technology has arrived in a remote stretch of ocean where the plane is believed to have ended its flight. The Boeing 777,

DHAKA: China has taken 160,000 ‘phantom’ government staff off its official payroll who were receiving salaries despite not doing any work. State-media reported on Monday, reports The Straits Times. A total of 162,629 officials who were taking government wages without working have

DHAKA: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was awarded with one half to John O’Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Mosel. The Nobel Prize committee awarded the trio for ‘their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the

DHAKA: Brazilian incumbent Dilma Rousseff has won most votes in the country’s presidential election, but has fallen short of outright victory.She received about 42% of the vote and faces a run-off against centre-right rival Aecio Neves, who got 34%.Analysts now predict a potentially