DHAKA: The death toll from flash floods in northern Afghanistan rose to more than 100 on Saturday with many others still missing, officials said, as helicopters carried trapped villagers to safety.The national disaster management authority told media that 58 people were killed in Jowzjan

DHAKA: India’s ruling Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday termed the Gujarat model of governance as destructive, divisive in nature and prayed to God to save the country from this model.‘Hey Bhagwan desh ko is model se bachao (God save the country from this model),’ Sonia

DHAKA: Palestinians will never recognize Israel as the ‘Jewish state’, president Mahmud Abbas said on Saturday, as his leadership convened to chart a course of action after Israel halted peace talks.‘In 1993 we recognized Israel,’ Abbas told members of the Palestine Liberation

DHAKA: Pope Francis told Ukraine prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Saturday that he will ‘do everything possible’ for peace in the country, amid fears that Russia could be about to invade.The Ukrainian premier is cutting short his trip to Rome and will miss the canonisation of John

DHAKA: Five Nato troops were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, the Nato-led security mission Isaf said.Isaf gave no further details, saying in a statement that it was still reviewing the circumstances of the crash.Such crashes are relatively frequent in Afghanistan,

DHAKA: North Korea is a ‘pariah state’ whose heavily militarised border with the South marks ‘freedom’s frontier’.US president Barack Obama told American troops in Seoul on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Obama, who was wrapping up a two-day visit to South Korea, said

DHAKA: Russia will take all possible steps to free detained OSCE military observers in the Ukrainian town of Slaviansk.Russian news agencies reported on Saturday, citing Russia’s envoy to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), reports The Straits Times.‘We

DHAKA: Former Maoist rebels and security forces who committed torture, killings and other crimes during Nepal’s decade-long civil war could be granted amnesty under new legislation approved by parliament, a lawmaker said on Saturday.Lawmakers passed a bill in parliament late on Friday

DHAKA: A North Korean nuclear test within days ‘cannot be ruled out’, analysts said on Saturday, after new satellite imagery showed heightened activity at the test site.The report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) is in line with other findings and

DHAKA: The undersea search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is to be extended beyond the small area identified as its most likely resting place as the quest for any sign of the missing plane enters its 50th day on Saturday.The US submarine drone Bluefin 21 has so far searched

DHAKA: The US says Russian military aircraft have entered Ukrainian airspace on several occasions, amid rising tension in the east of the country.A Pentagon spokesman called on Russia to "de-escalate the situation".The statement came as the G7 group of industrialized countries agreed on

DHAKA: A prosecutor investigating the South Korean ferry sinking that left 302 people dead or missing says all 15 crew members involved in the ship`s navigation are now in custody, reports the abc NEWS on Saturday.Earlier, divers found 48 bodies in a single room on the vessel meant to

DHAKA: Some BJP supporters allegedly hurled eggs at union minister and Andhra Pradesh Congress election campaign committee chief K Chiranjeevi during a public meeting in Machilipatnam on Friday after his remarks against Narendra Modi calling him a "Hitler" and "tyrant", police said.

DHAKA: Divers have pulled 48 bodies from a single room of the sunken South Korean ferry, search officials have said.They said on Friday that only 35 of the ferry`s 111 rooms have been searched so far, Yonhap news agency reported.The room where they had found the bodies was designed to

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama and top European leaders are moving ahead on a new round of sanctions against Russia, US officials have said.In a joint statement on Saturday, the Group of Seven nations - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and US - said that they will "move swiftly

DHAKA: At least three polling officials and five policemen were killed on Thursday evening while traveling in hit a landmine allegedly planted by the Maoists in the Dumka district of India, reports NDTV on Friday.They said The Jharkhand police have admitted to "mistakes" in this

DHAKA: At least four people have been killed and 20 others were seriously injured over an explosion that is took place near a mosque in Delhi colony area of Karachi on Friday, reports Dawn News.At this time three government vehicles were also damaged.Dawn News said on Friday that security

DHAKA: Rajeev Suri, an Indian has been selected to be the next Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the world’s largest mobile-phone company Nokia, which is ready to become tagged as “Microsoft Mobile’ at any moment.The Hindustan Times reports on Friday that Nokia will on Tuesday name

DHAKA: After legitimating ‘Live-Together’ Indian Supreme Court validate birth of live-in couple on Thursday, reports the India Today. They said there, ‘if a man and a woman are "living together for a long time as husband and wife, there would be a presumption of marriage" and their

DHAKA: The Government of Canada announced re-opening immigration with new occupations and caps for the popular Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) program on Wednesday.Canadian Immigration Center published a newsletter regarding this on Wednesday.The cicnews said there, ‘the new changes go