DHAKA: Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah has passed away on Wednesday at the age of 86. His passing was announced by Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir. Zambry said the Sultan would be laid to rest at the royal mausoleum in Kuala Kangsar after Asar prayers

DHAKA: Thailand’s junta has appointed as advisers two retired generals with palace connections, putting powerful establishment figures hostile towards former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra firmly in the ascendant in the country’s long-running power struggle. Hoping to show things

DHAKA: When Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif returned to Islamabad after attending Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony, he carried with him a gift from the new Indian prime minister for his mother. The gift had Nawaz’s daughter Maryam gushing in admiration. ‘Thank u v much PM

DHAKA: Egypt’s presidential election has been extended by one more day in an effort to boost low turnout that threatened to undermine the credibility of the vote likely to be won by the former army chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. The decision followed lower-than-expected turnout in the

DHAKA: Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has described himself as a trained spy specializing in electronic surveillance, dismissing claims he was a mere low-level analyst. In an interview with NBC, he reiterated that he had worked undercover overseas for the CIA and NSA,

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has announced a pullout plan for Afghanistan that will leave 9,800 troops in the country after 2014, overriding previous plans of a complete withdrawal by the end of the year. Obama announced the two-year plan on Tuesday saying the US would complete its

DHAKA: Google is to start building its own self-driving cars, rather than modifying vehicles built by other manufacturers. The car will have a stop-go button but no controls, steering wheel or pedals. Pictures of the Google vehicle show it looks like a city car with a "friendly" face,

DHAKA: At least 31 security personnel have been killed following an attack on a military base in Nigeria by Boko Haram fighters, security sources and witnesses said.  The attack on the base in the northeast Nigerian town of Buni Yadi in Yobe State on Tuesday happened not far from where

DHAKA: At least 21 people have died in a fire at hospital for the elderly in southwestern South Korea, the National Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday morning. Police said they were questioning a man in his 80s in connection with possible arson at the facility. The death toll

DHAKA: A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan’s top courts on Tuesday in a so-called ‘honour’ killing for marrying the man she loved. Pakistan police said, reports The Straits Times. Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern

DHAKA: Iranian officials say they have confirmed the country’s first two cases of Mers, a deadly virus first reported two years ago in Saudi Arabia, its neighbour on the western side of the Gulf. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona-Virus (Mers) causes coughing, fever and sometimes

DHAKA: Thailand’s junta said on Tuesday that former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra had been released from military detention and allowed to return home, in the first official confirmation of her whereabouts since she was detained last week.Yingluck, who led the former Puea Thai

DHAKA: An eleven-strong team from the international chemical weapons watchdog has been kidnapped on a fact-finding mission in the central Syrian province of Hama. The foreign ministry said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. ‘Eleven people, five Syrian drivers and six other members

Dhaka: Ukraine’s interior ministry said ‘the military is now in full control of the airport in the eastern city of Donetsk’ after a day of bloody clashes.   At least 30 pro-Russia separatists were killed, the insurgents say, after an attempt to take over the airport early on

DHAKA: A bus accident on Tuesday in Pakistan’s northwestern valley of Swat left 16 people dead, including 10 children. Pakistan officials said, reports Hindustan Times. The bus, carrying passengers home from the central Punjab province to the Kalam hill station in Swat district,

DHAKA: Even after taking oath as India’s prime minister on Monday, Narendra Modi did not shift to the official residence of Race Course Road and is unlikely to do so in the next few days. The official residence was vacated by outgoing prime minister Manmohan Singh after Modi’s

DHAKA: A MiG-21 fighter aircraft belonging to the Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed in Jammu and Kashmir today, killing the pilot. The fighter jet reportedly crashed in an open field in Bijbehara area of South Kashmir, over an hour away from Srinagar, reports NDTV. Before officials

DHAKA: Egypt has entered for a second day of polling in the presidential election. A huge security operation has been mounted by police and the military, amid fear of attacks by militants seeking to disrupt the polls. Former army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, who deposed Islamist

DHAKA: Malaysia’s aviation authority released on Tuesday satellite data used to determine that flight MH370 went down in the southern Indian Ocean following demands from skeptical relatives of those on board. The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) said in a statement it had worked with

DHAKA: A Mexican man once listed as the world's heaviest human being died Monday at the age of 48. Manuel Uribe had slimmed down to about 867 pounds, well below his then-record peak weight of 1,230 pounds, which was certified in 2006 as a Guinness World Record. Uribe's death was