DHAKA: Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram says it carried out the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls in April.About 230 girls are still believed to be missing, prompting widespread criticism of the Nigerian government.‘I abducted your girls,’ Boko Haram leader Abubakar

DHAKA: The head of Libya’s parliament has confirmed businessman Ahmed Maiteeq as the country’s new prime minister, according to a decree signed by him on Monday, one day after a deputy speaker had declared Maiteeq’s election invalid. The divisions in the assembly highlight growing

DHAKA: Much to the dismay of the Vatican, an approximately 1500-2000 year old bible was found in Turkey, in the Ethnography Museum of Ankara. Discovered and kept secret in the year 2000, the book contains the Gospel of Barnabas, a disciple of Christ, which shows that Jesus was not

DHAKA: Four of Sri Lanka’s most senior hardline Buddhist monks appeared in court on Monday accused of insulting the Koran, in the first such case following a spate of religious hate attacks. Police accused the monks, from the nationalist Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), or Buddhist Force, of

DHAKA: Government officials from Australia, China and Malaysia pledged on Monday not to give up searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 that disappeared almost two months ago, despite lingering questions about how to proceed and who will pay. No trace of the jetliner has been found

DHAKA: India finally tested its first indigenous air-to-air missile ‘Astra’ from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet, marking a significant turning point in the decade-long tortuous developmental saga of the complex beyond visual range (BVR) weapon. The test-firing of the sleek BVR missile

CALCUTTA: India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is acting as a friend of Bangladesh by staging a political drama protesting Modi’s statements. But actually she was in a hostile mood to Bangladesh on Teesta water sharing issue and Bangladesh deprived of getting fair water

CALCUTTA: India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is acting as a friend of Bangladesh by staging a political drama protesting Modi’s statements. But actually she was in a hostile mood to Bangladesh on Teesta water sharing issue and Bangladesh deprived of getting fair water

DHAKA: Curfew was on Monday relaxed in violence-hit Baksa and Kokrajhar and neighbouring Chirang districts in Indian province of Assam where 34 persons were killed in the mayhem unleashed by NDFB-Songbijit militants since Thursday last. With no fresh incident reported so far, the

DHAKA: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook buildings in Tokyo early on Monday, lightly injuring 17 people, but officials stressed there was no risk of a tsunami.Tokyo inhabitants, set to enjoy a national holiday, were woken shortly after dawn by the quake, which jolted the

DHAKA: Narendra Modi, BJP prime minister aspirant, reiterated that Bangladeshi infiltrators who were allowed into the country for votebank politics would have to go back, while refugees who have been thrown out of Bangladesh on religious grounds would be greeted with open arms. "BJP's

DHAKA: A group of 11 terrorists with links to Al Qaeda were being interrogated on whether they are behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday.The suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in the state of Kedah last week and are members of a violent

FROM KOLKATA: In ensuing Indian Lokshova election Congress candidate and state Congress leader Mala Roy has accused Mamata Banarjee for supporting Bangladeshi religious party Jamaat–e-Islami as well as for opposing the Teesta water sharing pact. The state congress leader has also told

DHAKA: More than 60 people arrested over Friday's violence in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa have been freed by police after protesters attacked the main police station. Several hundred pro-Russian protesters besieged the police headquarters, breaking through windows and doors. The

DHAKA: The death toll in the South Korean ferry disaster has jumped to 259, with 43 people still missing, the government reported Monday. The higher death toll comes after bodies were retrieved from the fourth deck of the Sewol ferry, according to South Korea's Government Rescue

DHAKA: A Tory council candidate has resigned from the party with immediate effect after posting anti-Islamic and homophobic comments on Twitter.David Bishop, a candidate in Brentwood South, Essex, apologised after retweeting messages, including one that claimed Islam was the religion of

DHAKA: A Belgian mayor has banned a congress that had attracted several figures from the French far right, including controversial comedian Dieudonne.Opponents have condemned the meeting as ‘anti-Semitic’, and Anderlecht Mayor Eric Tomas said he was banning it to ensure public

DHAKA: Nineteen people were killed and at least 30 were injured when four compartments of the Diva-Sawantwadi Passenger, along with the engine, were derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations in Maharashtra’s Raigad district in India on Sunday morning. Police said the incident

DHAKA: Nineteen people were killed and at least 30 were injured when four compartments of the Diva-Sawantwadi Passenger, along with the engine, were derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations in Maharashtra’s Raigad district in India on Sunday morning. Police said the incident

DHAKA: Fighting between Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch and a splinter group in eastern Syria has forced more than 60,000 people to flee their homes, emptied villages and killed scores of fighters. A monitoring group said, reports The Straits Times. Infighting among rebels opposed to