DHAKA: A civilian diver taking part in the search for those missing from a recently sunken ferry died on Tuesday after falling unconscious during a mission. South Korean officials said, reports The Straits Times. The diver, identified as a 53-year-old man surnamed Lee, was brought to a

DHAKA: Egyptian presidential favourite and former army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi on Monday has vowed that the banned Muslim Brotherhood group "will not exist," should he win. In his first interview with Egyptian TV, he added that two assassination plots against him had been uncovered,

DHAKA: Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has threatened to ‘sell’ the hundreds of schoolgirls it abducted three weeks ago.Militant leader Abubakar Shekau sent a video obtained by media, in which he said for the first time that his group had taken the girls, reports the

DHAKA: Hours after Narendra Modi targeted the Gandhis on their turf, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra accused the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate of insulting her father Rajiv.‘On Amethi’s soil, they insulted the memory of my martyred father. The people of Amethi will never forgive them,’

DHAKA: Pro-Russian militants just outside Sloviansk have retreated amid attacks by Ukrainian troops, reports say.Government forces took control of a TV tower in the suburbs and rebels were pulled back deeper into the city, the Russian Interfax news agency said, reports the BBC.Earlier

DHAKA: Grief-stricken and destitute Afghan villagers vented anger on their government as they scrambled for emergency aid, three days after deadly landslides engulfed their homes. Some 300 homes in Aab Bareek, a village in the Argo district of Badakhshan, a remote and mountainous

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