DHAKA: Pope Francis has announced that he will meet a group of sex abuse victims next month after comparing the "ugly crime" to performing "a satanic Mass". Speaking after his Middle East tour, Pope Francis said he will show zero tolerance for anyone in the Roman Catholic Church who

DHAKA: The Nigerian military say they know where the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram are but they will not attempt a rescue. Nigeria's Chief of Defence Staff said it was "good news for the parents," although he admitted the military would not risk "going there with force." More than 200

DHAKA: French President Francois Hollande opined that the EU must reform and scale back its power, amid a surge in support for Eurosceptic and far-right parties. Hollande, whose party was beaten by the far right in last week's European Parliament election, said the EU had become too

DHAKA: Around the time Narendra Modi was being sworn in at India’s Rashtrapati Bhavan, the website of the Prime Minister’s Office put up Modi’s first official message as Prime Minister of the country. Greeting the people of the nation, prime minister Narendra Modi said, ‘On 16th

DHAKA: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday moved the Delhi high court challenging a trial court order of sending him to judicial custody. Kejriwal’s lawyers mentioned the matter before a division bench of Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Sidharth Mridul for urgent

DHAKA: A fierce battle erupted on Monday for control of the main airport in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, just hours after future president Petro Poroshenko vowed he would not let the country become another Somalia. Ukrainian fighter jets and combat helicopters struck at separatist gunmen

DHAKA: Eurosceptic and far-right parties have seized ground in elections to the European parliament, in what France’s PM called a ‘political earthquake’. UK Independence Party and French National Front both performed strongly. The three big centrist blocs all lost seats, though

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has struck an army minibus in the Afghan capital, killing at least two people and injuring two others. Afghan defence ministry has said, reports Al Jazeera. ‘A suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated his explosives near an army minibus,’ ministry spokesman

DHAKA: Narendra Modi was sworn in Monday as India's 15th prime minister at an inauguration ceremony in the capital New Delhi attended by regional leaders.‘I, Narendra Damodardas Modi, swear in the name of God that I will maintain the integrity of India,’ Modi said in Hindi at the

DHAKA: At least 40 passengers have been feared killed and nearly 100 injured in Uttar Pradesh’s Sant Kabir Nagar district on Monday in one of the worst train accidents in the country in recent times.The incident occurred when the New Delhi-Gorakhpur Gorakhdham Express rammed into a

DHAKA: Move over anaconda. At nearly 50-feet long and weighing in at 1,124 kgs, titanoboa is by far the biggest snake that ever lived on earth. Sixty million years ago in the swampy waters of what is now Colombia, the monster snake, 10 times as heavy as the average green anaconda, hunted

DHAKA: Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday he could easily work with India’s new government led by Narendra Modi, hoping that their personal focus on boosting business could help ‘turn a new page’ in bilateral ties. In an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times

DHAKA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Damodardas Modi, 63, took oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India at the biggest-ever swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.He took oath along with 45 ministers, including key leaders Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Nitin

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow was willing to talk with Ukraine’s newly elected president Petro Poroshenko.‘We are ready for dialogue with Kiev’s representatives, with Petro Poroshenko,’ Lavrov said at a joint press conference with his

DHAKA: France’s Socialist government was hit by a fresh aftershock on Monday after a triumph for the far-right National Front (FN) in European elections was widely interpreted as a seismic shift in the country’s political landscape. As he met top ministers to assess a vote in which

DHAKA: Millions of voters are casting ballots across Egypt to choose a new president, for the second time in two years.A huge security operation has been mounted by police and the military, amid fear of attacks by militants seeking to isrupt the polls.Former army chief Abdul Fattah

DHAKA: Thai coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday he had been formally endorsed by the king as head of a military council that will run the country, and warned he would use force if political protests flared up again. He did not set a timeframe for how long the army would

DHAKA: Pope Francis is to visit Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, on the final leg of his three-day Middle East tour. After arriving in Israel on Sunday, the Pope described the Holocaust as ‘an enduring symbol of the depths to which human evil can sink’. On Monday,

DHAKA: Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in New Delhi on Monday for the swearing-in ceremony of his incoming Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in a symbolic meeting of the two regional rivals. Sharif smiled and waved to television cameras after landing at the capital’s main

DHAKA: 20 people are feared dead and 10 passengers were injured after an Express train rammed a stationary goods train near Khalilabad in Uttar Pradesh of India, reports the NDTV. The incident took place this morning when the express train came on the same track near Churaid Railway