DHAKA: The Land Down Under cheered as the United Kingdom’s royal couple Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and their adorable baby Prince George arrived on Wednesday.After a rather wet and gloomy last day in New Zealand where Kate was seen boarding the plane with a blue

DHAKA: Ukrainian troops repelled an overnight attack on their base in the south-east city of Mariupol, killing three of the assailants and wounding 13.Ukraine interior minister Arsen Avakov said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.Around 300 people mounted the attack using guns and

DHAKA: Emergency services are continuing to search for nearly 300 people missing after a ferry carrying more than 470 sank off South Korea.Officials say 179 people have been rescued. Most of the passengers on board were students and teachers from the same high school on a field

DHAKA: Closing of infamous Abu Ghraib prison, situated at west of Baghdad is temporary and it might be reopened at anytime.The Huffington Post publishes a report on Wednesday that once the security situation in the surrounding area is stable Abu Ghraib will be reopened, an Iraqi Justice

DHAKA: A massive operation is underway off the coast of Jindo Island in South Jeolla province where a ferry carrying more than 450 passengers and crew sank on Wednesday, killing at least four people and leaving almost 300 still unaccounted for.As of Wednesday night, 174 people were

DHAKA: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Wednesday urged voters in Uttar Pradesh to reject Narendra Modi and his party, the BJP.‘You have to decide whether you want politics where strength and power lies in the hands of the people or is vested in just one man,’ she said at a public meeting in

DHAKA: Military alliance Nato said on Wednesday it had decided on a series of immediate steps to reinforce its forces in eastern Europe because of the Ukraine crisis.‘You will see deployments at sea, in the air, on land to take place immediately, that means within days,’ Nato

DHAKA: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s father and noted scriptwriter Salim Khan on Wednesday launched the Urdu version of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s official website.Khan launched the website www.narendramodi.in from his residence in suburban Bandra, with BJP

DHAKA: The United States is coordinating with its European allies on ‘additional steps’ to slap more sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.A US official said, reports The Straits Times.Secretary of State John Kerry spoke by phone with his French, German and British

DHAKA: At a rally in Kishanganj in Bihar, Rahul Gandhi made a rare direct reference to his political opponent, Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat who is running for Prime Minister post of India.‘Modi-ji, don’t try to fool India,’ the young Congress vice-president said,

DHAKA: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections, Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, rejected the view that he had remained silent on the February 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, which according to official figures, claimed the lives of 790

DHAKA: Ukraine’s prime minister on Wednesday accused Russia of ‘exporting terrorism’ to Ukraine by using covert forces to organise armed separatists who he said had attacked Ukrainian forces and occupied state buildings.‘The Russian government must immediately call off its

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of workers were on strike Wednesday at a factory in southern China which makes shoes for Nike and Adidas.Rights groups and a worker said, reports The Straits Times.More than 30,000 staff at the Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) factory in Dongguan city have been

DHAKA: A mini-submarine making its second dive in the hunt for missing Malaysian jet MH370 encountered a ‘technical difficulty’ and resurfaced on Wednesday, officials said, after the first mission also aborted.‘The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Bluefin-21, was forced to resurface

DHAKA: Two people were died and almost 180 more had been rescued and more than 100 people are unaccounted for in ferry capsize incident.A total of 34 naval, coastguard and civilian ships were involved in rescue efforts, as well as 18 helicopters.   Earlier a ferry with about 450 people

DHAKA: Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria.Parents say, reports the BBC.Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel’s teenage residents on to four lorries.Parents told the BBC’s

DHAKA: Iran has complained to the United Nations over the decision by the United States to refuse a visa for its newly appointed permanent representative.Iran’s deputy envoy at the UN in New York, Hossein Dehghani, wrote that the US had violated its legal obligations and set a dangerous

DHAKA: India’s Supreme Court has recognised transgender people as a third gender, in a landmark ruling.‘It is the right of every human being to choose their gender,’ it said in granting rights to those who identify themselves as neither male nor female.It ordered the government to

DHAKA: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Tuesday delivered a scathing appraisal of her estranged and younger cousin Varun, who filed his nomination papers as the BJP candidate from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh.‘Anybody... no matter how close they are, as blood relations... if they are going to be on

DHAKA: Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi must do one year’s community service over tax fraud.A Milan court has ruled, reports the BBC.He was convicted of tax fraud in connection with TV rights purchased by his firm Mediaset.The alternative to community service had been