India police have arrested the alleged kingpin of a trafficking racket who sold hundreds of poor tribal girls for domestic slavery in the country's capital, an officer said Thursday. Police accused Baba Bamdev of posing as a spiritual guru and...
A controversial film on the assassination of former Indian Prime minister Indira Gandhi was scheduled for release on Friday amid calls for it to be banned for glorifying her killers. ‘Kaum De Heere,’ or ‘Diamonds of the community’ tells the...
Violence erupted in an Ebola quarantine zone in Liberia's capital Wednesday when soldiers opened fire and used tear gas on crowds as they evacuated a state official and her family. Four residents were injured in the clashes that flared in...
Turkey's ruling party is due to meet on Thursday to agree on a new leader and prime minister to replace incoming president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu the frontrunner for the job. Erdogan, who has dominated Turkey's...
The dollar edged up against the euro and the yen in Asian trade Thursday, building on the 11-month high it reached against the European currency overnight as the market eyed US rate hikes. In afternoon Tokyo trade, the euro was...
Oil prices edged lower in Asia Thursday on fading fears that conflicts in crude producers Libya and Iraq could result in a major supply disruption, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for October delivery was down 27 cents at...
Dutch retail giant Ahold on Thursday posted second-quarter profits down almost 29 per cent at 147 million euros ($195 million), hit by unfavourable exchange rates and despite a jump in online sales. Profits for the same period last year were...
The Anti Corruption Commission has decided to prosecute a former state minister and two sitting Members of Parliament of the ruling Awami League. They are former state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan, Patuakhali-4 MP Mahbubur Rahman,...
A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges against 13 operatives of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji), including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, for bomb attack on a CPB rally in the city on January 20, 2001, that killed eight...
A Dhaka court on Thursday framed charges against 13 operatives of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji), including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, for bomb attack on a CPB rally in the city on January 20, 2001, that killed eight...
The Anti Corruption Commission has decided to prosecute a former state minister and two sitting Members of Parliament of the ruling Awami League. They are former state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan, Patuakhali-4 MP Mahbubur Rahman,...
Air Berlin, Germany's second-biggest airline, said on Thursday it flew back into profit in the second quarter and promised a massive restructuring programme later this year. Presenting the company's second-quarter results, chief executive Wolfgang Prock-Schauer said: ‘We were able to...
Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday reported that its quarterly revenue rose for the first time in three years, nudged by improved computer sales everywhere except Russia and China. Net revenue for the quarter that ended July 31 was $27.6 billion, a one...
Russia's state-owned VTB bank said Thursday it was ready to resist Western sanctions imposed on it over Ukraine after its second-quarter profits took a knock. The number two Russian bank said its net profit plunged by over four-fifths from the...
British state borrowing fell sharply last month on rising tax receipts, official data showed on Thursday. Public sector net borrowing, the government's preferred measure of the deficit, stood at £800 million ($1.33 billion, 1.0 billion euros) in July. The figure,...
A timid economic recovery in the eurozone is still holding, a closely-watched survey showed on Thursday, but at a pace that promises only negligible growth for the year. This latest data is likely to strengthen the views of those who...
Sri Lanka's trade deficit narrowed substantially this year thanks to increased demand for clothing exports to the United States and Europe, the island's central bank said Thursday. Exports jumped 16.8 per cent to $5.44 billion in the first six months...
Army troops patrolled border districts of India's northeastern Assam state Thursday following sporadic violence that has left more than a dozen dead and over 10,000 displaced. Shops and businesses were closed in Golaghat town, where three people were killed after...
Police investigating an American couple suspected of killing the woman's mother at a resort hotel on Indonesia's Bali island said Thursday the three had a disagreement over who was paying for the rooms, but that a motive for the crime...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling party were poised Thursday to choose his successor as party chairman and prime minister, with expectations high that the man who has dominated Turkish politics for more than a decade will keep charge as...
Interpol says the killing of an American journalist kidnapped in Syria shows the need for a coordinated international effort against the stream of foreign fighters joining extremists in the Middle East. The international policy agency said in a statement Thursday...
Landlocked Mongolia is hoping to secure better access to Chinese ports as President Xi Jinping becomes the first Chinese head of state in more than a decade to visit this sprawling resource-rich nation sandwiched between China and Russia. Xi arrived...
Three more Tibetan protesters shot and detained by Chinese authorities died in jail after being denied medical treatment, bringing the death toll from recent violence to five, according to overseas Tibetan rights groups and a US-backed broadcaster. Rights groups said...
Five people stood trial Thursday in the beating death of a woman at a McDonald's restaurant in eastern China who reportedly refused to join their anti-Communist Christian sect — a high-profile crime that led to a wave of arrests of...
The American doctor who fell ill with the dangerous Ebola virus while working in Liberia has recovered and is being released from an Atlanta hospital, an aid group said Thursday. Kent Brantly, 33, is scheduled to speak to the media...
Thieves broke into the official car of Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Rupo, stealing his laptop and personal documents, prosecutors confirmed on Thursday. The robber or robbers shattered the window of Di Rupo's car in central Brussels on Monday evening...
The Non-government Teachers’ Registration and Certification Authority (NTRCA) on Thursday published the results of the 10th teachers’ registration examinations, showing a pass percentage of 31.73. Out of 4,41,979 participants, 1,13,297 passed the examinations, held on May 30 and 31 this...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Power, Energy and Mineral Resources on Thursday hoped that the 341-MW Summit Bibiyana II gas-based power project will go into production by the year-end, according to a news agency.
A total of 38 students from different departments of Dhaka University (DU) have been awarded “The DUKE of Edinburgh International Award” for their success in different extra-curricular activities. DU Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique distributed the certificates among the...
A High Court (HC) vacation bench on Thursday refused to hear two writ petitions filed challenging the legality of the National Broadcasting Policy-2014 and the government move to restore in the constitution the provision of parliament’s authority to impeach Supreme...
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