DHAKA: General Prayuth Chan-ocha has declared himself acting Prime Minister of Thailand until the new coup regime announced Thursday can find someone to serve in the post full time. Announcement No.10 of the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council (NPOMC) says General Prayuth, who

DHAKA: Russia's President Putin has said he will respect the outcome of Ukraine's presidential election on Sunday.Speaking at an economic conference in St Petersburg on Friday, Vladimir Putin also said he believed Ukraine had descended into "full-scale civil war".Meanwhile, pro-Russia

DHAKA: Thailand's ex-PM Yingluck Shinawatra and a number of members of her family have been detained, as leaders of the nation's military coup tighten their grip on power. Ms Yingluck and scores of politicians from the deposed government had been told to report to a Bangkok army base.

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi is the sixth most followed leader on Twitter globally, according to a survey by Twiplomacy, a study of world leaders on the microblogging site.  Modi’s Twitter handle has 4,240,643 followers, with a weekly growth of 6.77 percent,

DHAKA: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested in a defamation case on Wednesday, will remain in jail till June 6 as he refused to sign a personal bond on Friday.  In a courtroom that was packed with his supporters, Kejriwal argued his own case.  Among those

DHAKA: The UN Security Council committee on al-Qaeda sanctions has blacklisted Nigeria's Boko Haram, a month after the armed group kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls. Nigeria, which until recently had been reluctant to seek international help to combat Boko Haram, requested earlier this

DHAKA: Mortar fire has hit an election rally in support of President Bashar al-Assad in southern Syria, killing at least 20 people, state media and activists say. The attack happened as Assad supporters gathered in a tent in the city of Deraa on Thursday evening. President Assad was not

DHAKA: Thailand's former authority figures have reported to the new military junta after it summoned the entire deposed government and members of the politically influential Shinawatra family, following a coup. Yingluck Shinawatra, the former prime minister, and Niwattumrong

DHAKA: Qaiser Ali, a 19-year-old teenager from Lucknow, after handling "Prime Minister of India" the official twitter for India’s Prime Minister  by mistake for half an hour, shaked the world as ‘Half-an-Hour PM’. Later, he apologised for taking the handle, of course, reports the

DHAKA: The US has led widespread international criticism of a military takeover in Thailand as the South-East Asian nation spent its first night under curfew. US Secretary of State John Kerry said there was "no justification", and $10m in bilateral aid could be suspended. France and

DHAKA: Frostie, the ‘Snow-Goat’ baby is jollying happy now, after a sweet new set of wheels has given him some newfound freedom.The adorable snow goat was previously unable to walk.It happened after contracting a disease known as joint navel ill shortly after his birth, the Huffington

DHAKA: Separatist rebels on Thursday seized four Ukrainian coal mines in the east of the strife-torn country and demanded that its workers supply them with explosives. The Ukrainian energy ministry said, reports The Straits Times. ‘The terrorists, threatening (workers) with guns, are

DHAKA: A dawn attack on a checkpoint in eastern Ukraine has left at least 14 soldiers dead, in the worst loss of life for government forces to date. Heavily armed militants attacked the checkpoint in the Volnovakha area, in one of four attacks reported overnight in eastern Ukraine. It

DHAKA: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday went for a walk in the morning within Tihar jail premises, where he is lodged in a defamation case, and met his wife and some AAP leaders who had come to visit him. Kejriwal slept well through the night and woke up early,

DHAKA: Reported remarks by the Prince of Wales likening some Nazi actions to those of president Vladimir Putin are ‘outrageous’ the Russian embassy says. Deputy ambassador Alexander Kramarenko is due to meet Foreign Office officials to ask for official clarification, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Caretaker premier Niwuttamrong Boonsongpaisan’s whereabouts are not yet known after the armed forces seized power on Thursday. Niwuttumrong did not attend the meeting hosted by army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha at the Royal Army Club earlier on Thursday, which was intended to

DHAKA: Congress should opt for 'ruthless introspection' and only those experienced in field work should be given leadership roles. Party leaders said on Thursday, reports The Times of India. Congress leader Milind Deora, who had yesterday said that Rahul Gandhi’s advisers did not have

DHAKA: Russia’s defense ministry says it already has sent several trains carrying weapons and planeloads of troops out of the regions near Ukraine. It said four trainloads of weapons and 15 Il-76 heavy lift transport planes left the Belgorod, Bryansk and Rostov regions on Tuesday. It

DHAKA: Taliban fighters kidnapped 27 police officers during an assault on a northeastern province in Afghanistan, authorities said on Thursday, part of the extremist group's spring offensive ahead of the withdrawal of foreign troops at the end of this year. Gen. Fazeluddin Ayar, the

DHAKA: Thailand’s army chief says the military has been taking control of government. In a televised statement, the army chief said the military would restore order and push through political reforms. The BBC's Jonah Fisher, in Bangkok, says the move appears to confirm that a