DHAKA: London Underground workers are to take five days of strike action over Tube ticket office closures.The RMT Union has announced, reports the BBC.The row is about the closure of all 260 Tube ticket offices and 960 job cuts.Members will walk out from 21:00 BST on 28 April for two days

DHAKA: Mystery surrounds the fate of more than 100 teenage girls who were abducted from a school in the remote north-east of Nigeria.The military says all but eight of the 129 girls have escaped, but parents of the girls say many are still missing.It is thought Islamist militant group

DHAKA: Malaysia warned Thursday that the cost of the search for flight MH370’s wreckage in the vast depths of the Indian Ocean will be ‘huge’, the latest sobering assessment by authorities involved in the challenging effort.‘When we look at salvaging (wreckage) at a depth of 4.5

DHAKA: UK media is reporting that a 12-year-old has just delivered her 13-year-old boyfriend’s baby, making them the country’s youngest parents.Their daughter, who weighs 7 pounds, was reportedly born last weekend.She fell pregnant at 11, while still at primary school, shortly after

DHAKA: An oil slick sighted during the sea search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 did not come from the plane, officials said on Thursday, dashing hopes of finding a definitive answer to the fate of the jet.‘Preliminary analysis of the sample collected by ADV Ocean Shield has

DHAKA: Iran has neutralised half of its higher-enriched uranium stockpile, as per a deal agreed earlier this year.The world’s nuclear watchdog says, reports the BBC.The International Atomic Energy Agency has been checking Iran`s adherence to the deal, struck with six world powers.The

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused Ukraine’s new authorities of driving the country towards the abyss but said that dialogue was the only way out of the intensifying crisis.‘Only through dialogue, through democratic procedures and not with the use of armed

DHAKA: Rescuers worked frantically on Thursday to find 300 people, mostly schoolchildren, missing after a South Korean ferry capsized, with prospects of pulling survivors from the submerged vessel dimming as emotions boiled over among anguished relatives.Nine people were confirmed dead,

DHAKA: It walks and runs, even up and down stairs. It can open a bottle and serve a drink, and politely tries to shake hands with a stranger.Meet the latest Asimo, Honda’s humanoid robot.‘Hello New York! Thank you for coming today!’ the little guy chirped in English, the recorded

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