DHAKA: At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured, some critically, on Wednesday when an explosion occurred behind the Metro Shopping center in the Sabzi Mandi area of the capital city.Police and rescue teams rushed to the site of the incident after the explosion occurred.Initial

DHAKA: A New York man has been exonerated over a 1989 murder as part of larger review of questionable convictions.Jonathan Fleming, now 51, had been on holiday in Disney World at the time of the murder and had documents supporting his alibi, but he was still convicted.Since then, a key

DHAKA: Voting has begun in Indonesia to elect representatives in national and local parliaments.Some 19,000 seats are being contested across the nation, including the 560 seats in the national parliament, reports the BBC.The polls will determine which parties can field candidates for the

DHAKA: Pakistani opposition parties are planning to challenge a sweeping new anti-terror law in court, politicians said on Tuesday, because they fear it will legalise human rights violations.The Protection of Pakistan Bill was passed late on Monday amid protests from members of parliament

DHAKA: The Supreme Court in the Philippines has approved a birth control law, in a defeat for the Catholic Church.The law requires government health centres to distribute free condoms and contraceptive pills.The court had deferred implementation after the law’s passage in December 2012

DHAKA: Italy’s navy on Tuesday said it had rescued more than 1,000 migrants over the past 24 hours, as new data showed a sharp rise in asylum claims, mostly from Syrians.Italy began a navy operation ‘Mare Nostrum’ (Our Sea), a Latin reference to the Mediterranean, after more than

DHAKA: A Junior Commissioned Officer of the Indian Army and two policemen were killed in a fierce encounter between militants and security forces in Zoonarewshi area of Kupwara district near the Line of Control in Kashmir.Two militants were also killed in the encounter, reports NDTV.The

DHAKA: Do fairies exist? Nor just in tales – is a question which was unsolved for many years. Recently a British professor is getting a swarm of attention for a series of photos depicting tiny creatures that he suggests look like fairies.International newspapers published some of the

DHAKA: NATO’s chief warned Russia on Tuesday it would be committing a ‘historic mistake’ if it intervened further in Ukraine, urging Moscow to ‘step back’ after pro-Kremlin militants seized government buildings in several cities in the east.‘I urge Russia to step back and not

DHAKA: It doesn’t matter where the investigations are carried out as long as the truth about the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane is out.Malaysia’s acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.As the search for the missing plane entered its second month, Hishammuddin, who

DHAKA: Ukraine’s acting president said Tuesday he would treat Russian separatists who have seized buildings in the east of the country as ‘terrorists’ who will be prosecuted with the full force of the law.‘The authorities will treat separatists and terrorists who have picked up

DHAKA: Iran and world powers began on Tuesday a third round of nuclear talks aimed at reaching a final agreement by late July.A US official said, reports The Straits Times.Iran and the five UN Security Council permanent members plus Germany want to make enough progress in this round to

DHAKA: The Election Commission is likely to take action if West Bengal government does not comply with its order to transfer officials.Times Now has reported quoting EC sources, says The Times of India.The commission may even cancel polls in the concerned districts if the Mamata

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has said that Americans are facing competition from India and China and exuded confidence that young Americans can match or exceed anything that they do.‘You guys are all coming up in an age where you`re not going to be able to compete with people across

DHAKA: The United States has voiced "great concern" about heightened tension in eastern Ukraine after pro-Russia demonstrators seized government buildings in three cities.US Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in a phone call that any Russian efforts at

DHAKA: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), widely tipped to form the next government, Monday released its election manifesto in which it said the party will encourage foreign direct investment but appeared to close the door to global retailers eyeing the country.This comes 10 days after the

DHAKA: An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld three-year prison sentences for three prominent activists charged with violating a controversial law restricting protests.The three, including the founder of the April 6 movement Ahmed Maher, rose to prominence in the 2011 uprising that

DHAKA: India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has promised growth and development with a plan to build 100 new cities and allow foreign investment in various sectors including defense in its manifesto released on the first day of polling on Monday.The manifesto, a governance

DHAKA: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said on Monday that the world body was still wracked by shame over its failure to act against the genocide in Rwanda 20 years ago.‘Many United Nations personnel and others showed remarkable bravery. But we could have done much more,’

DHAKA: Pro-Russian activists who seized the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk have proclaimed the creation of a sovereign ‘people’s republic’ independent of Kiev rule.A spokesman for the protesters who came from the occupied building announced the