DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin has said he supports a peace plan tabled by Ukraine, as long as it includes ‘practical action’ to start talks. He said Kiev must negotiate and make compromises with pro-Russian rebels for the plan to be ‘viable and realistic’. Putin also

DHAKA: A South Korean soldier has shot dead five comrades, injured five more and fled from an outpost near the border with North Korea, BBC reports. The army private opened fire on fellow soldiers on Saturday evening at a post in the eastern Gangwon province. It is not yet clear what

DHAKA: Taliban militants fired eight rockets into a NATO air base at one of Afghanistan’s main airports on Saturday evening. The provincial authorities said that reports the NDTV.com. No casualties or damage to buildings were reported at the base at Jalalabad airport. The attack comes

DHAKA:  Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in fresh attacks on villages in Borno state in northern Nigeria, the BBC has learnt. A local member of parliament confirmed the attacks and said that at least five other villages had been targeted. The Nigerian military has also

DHAKA:  The United States has said it is "horrified" at reports of sexual violence and murders in India and it also applauded the role of individuals, government officials and civil society groups working to protect the survivors. "Like so many in India, we were horrified to learn of

DHAKA: A British woman who was sailing near Indonesia at the time Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared has said she believes she saw the plane ‘burning’ and billowing smoke before it crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. An eye-witness account from yachting enthusiast Katherine

DHAKA: The driver whose car rammed into Gopinath Munde’s car, killing the union minister, has been arrested. India police said Tuesday, reports gulfnews.com. Gurvinder Singh, who was driving the car, was arrested at the scene. Singh, 32, was driving his personal Tata Indica car,

DHAKA: Police in London have arrested the leader of Pakistan’s powerful MQM party, Altaf Hussain, on suspicion of money-laundering. Officers are searching a residential address in north-west London where they say a 60-year-old man was detained, reports the BBC. Hussain has lived in

DHAKA: Nato defence ministers are due to discuss for the first time the long-term security implications of Russian actions over Ukraine.The talks in Brussels will also focus on what action Nato member states should take in response, says BBC report. Relations between Nato and Moscow

DHAKA: Senior BJP leader and union minister Gopinath Munde was killed in a road accident in Delhi today while he was on his way to the city airport.He was rushed to the trauma centre in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he succumbed to his injuries.Mr Munde is the rural

DHAKA: Voting is due to get under way in Syria's presidential election amid heightened security, reports BBC. The poll takes place three years into a civil war in which tens of thousands of people have died and millions more are displaced.President Bashar al-Assad is widely expected to

COLOMBO:  Heavy rains followed by floods and landslides claimed 14 lives in Sri Lanka Monday.The country’s disaster management centre said, reports NDTV.Most of those who were killed were from the southern township of Kalutara where heavy flooding was reported after overnight rain.The

DHAKA: Thailand’s ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a hugely controversial figure at the heart of the kingdom’s bitter political divide, said on Tuesday that the imposition of martial law must not ‘destroy’ democracy. ‘The declaration of martial law is expected....

DHAKA: At least 17 people were killed and 27 injured when a bus going to the Kashmir valley fell into a deep gorge in the Jammu region on Tuesday, reports Times of India. he accident occurred when the bus driver lost control at Digdol on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Ramban district, 170

DHAKA: At least 17 people were killed and 27 injured when a bus going to the Kashmir valley fell into a deep gorge in the Jammu region on Tuesday, reports Times of India.                   The accident occurred when the bus driver lost control at Digdol on the Jammu-Srinagar

DHAKA: China has denounced charges brought by the US against five army officers accused of economic cyber-espionage. Beijing said it had "never engaged or participated" in cyber theft and that the charges would damage co-operation between the two countries. China has summoned the US

DHAKA: After declaring a martial law across the crisis-gripped kingdom, Thailand’s army asked 10 satellite TV channels must stop broadcasting, including stations run by pro- and anti-government groups. Earlier in the day, Thailand’s army on Tuesday declared a martial law across the

DHAKA: Thailand's army on Tuesday declared a martial law across the crisis-gripped kingdom to restore order following months of anti-government protests that have left 28 people dead and hundreds wounded, reports BBC. Thai army says that it is imposing martial law amid a political crisis

DHAKA: Sonia and Rahul Gandhi on Monday offered to resign from their posts as leaders of the Congress party after its worst ever election performance.But party members refused to let them go, reports The Straits Times.‘Sonia and Rahul offered to resign, but the Congress Working

DHAKA: Iraq’s prime minister Nuri al-Maliki won the most seats in country’s elections but fell short of a majority, leaving him in the driver’s seat to retain his post despite vocal opposition.The results from the election commission showed Maliki’s State of Law alliance garnered