DHAKA: India’s civil aviation regulator said on Wednesday it has set new rules for local airlines to ensure real time tracking of aircraft, a decision it said was prompted by the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. The new rules will apply to both passenger and cargo

DHAKA: Nigeria’s police have offered a $300,000 cash reward to anyone who can help locate and rescue more than 200 abducted schoolgirls. They were kidnapped more than three weeks ago by armed Islamist militants from their boarding school in the north-eastern state of Borno. Another

DHAKA: The party of the ousted Thai prime minister issued a statement on Wednesday to denounce the constitutional court’s ruling against Yingluck Shinawatra as relentless conspiracy to try to remove the party from power. The Pheu Thai Party also called on the people, who disagreed with

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia’s acting health minister has announced the sacking of the head of a Jeddah hospital where a spike in coronary viral infections among medical staff sparked panic among the public. The move, which Adel Fakieh announced on Twitter late Tuesday, came after he inspected

DHAKA: Monica Lewinsky says she became reclusive during Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign for president in 2008 for fear that she would be used for political purposes and that she feels ‘gun-shy’ even now as Hillary considers another run in 2016. Despite Lewinsky’s trepidation,

DHAKA: As India held the latest round of its election Wednesday, 97-year-old Shyam Saran Negi once again trudged several kilometers to vote, a tradition he has kept up since independence in 1947. The retired teacher, from a remote village high in the Himalayas, has voted in 16 general

DHAKA: The United States said it will soon start issuing work visas to the spouses of some foreign workers as part of a drive to retain highly skilled people. The change will affect the spouses of people with so-called H-1B visas, a limited-term working visa that employees obtain when

DHAKA: A Thai court found prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra guilty on Wednesday of violating the constitution and said she could no longer serve as caretaker premier, a decision likely to increase tensions in the bitterly divided nation. Judges delivering the verdict said Yingluck had

DHAKA: South Africans voted in the first ‘Born Free’ election on Wednesday, although polls suggest the allure of the ruling African National Congress as the conqueror of apartheid will prevail even among those with no memory of white-minority rule. Polling stations opened at 0500

DHAKA: Two morbidly obese Colombian babies, who weigh a dangerously unhealthy 91 pounds combined, have come together to lose weight – and live longer, report New York Post. The 10-month-olds, Santiago Mendoza and Isabela Caicedo, are following a special weight loss program with the

DHAKA: A team of US experts has been sent to Nigeria to help find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last month by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. US President Barack Obama said the team comprised personnel from military, law enforcement and other agencies. He said he hoped the

DHAKA: Voting begins in 64 seats across seven states in the penultimate round of the Lok Sabha elections Wednesday.  The Congress appears to have an uphill task to perform with the whole of Seemandhra and parts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal casting their vote, NDTV reprted.

DHAKA: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott called the Indonesian president on Tuesday to express regret after axing a trip to Bali reportedly due to fears an asylum boat turn-back could inflame tensions. Jakarta said, reports The Straits Times. The call came as Indonesian officials

DHAKA: China has detained a prominent human rights lawyer on a charge of ‘causing a disturbance’, two lawyers said on Tuesday, after he attended a weekend meeting that urged a probe of the bloody suppression of pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Pu Zhiqiang, a

DHAKA: Indonesia’s first female provincial leader went on trial on Tuesday, accused of bribing one of the country’s top judges over an election dispute in an attempt to strengthen her political dynasty. The case of Ratu Atut Chosiyah, governor of Banten province, has transfixed even

DHAKA: Pakistan will set up mandatory polio immunisation points at its international airports in response to recommendations by the World Health Organisation. Pakistan health ministry said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. The WHO warned on Monday that the crippling disease has

DHAKA: European foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the situation in Ukraine, where the authorities have launched a crackdown on pro-Russian separatists. Austria hopes backing will be given to this month's presidential election at the Council of Europe summit in Vienna, reports the

DHAKA: India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal to release Sahara conglomerate chairman Subrata Roy, who has been in jail for two months over his group's alleged failure to refund investors in an outlawed bonds scheme. Roy, one of India’s most enigmatic corporate

DHAKA: Thailand’s Constitutional Court said on Tuesday it would hand down a ruling on May 7 in an abuse of power case brought against prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra that could see her removed from office if found guilty. ‘The court makes an appointment to hand down its verdict on

DHAKA: Six people were wounded in a knife attack at a train station in China on Tuesday, police said, the latest in a string of violent episodes at public transport hubs. Police shot one of the attackers at the train station in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, the city’s public