Bolivian police say eight foreign tourists are among the 10 people killed when a bus returning to La Paz from the Salar de Uyuni salt flats ran off the highway and crashed. Police Capt. Gonzalo Carrasco said that another 24...
An Afghan spokesman says 23 people were killed when a passenger van and a fuel tanker collided in western Afghanistan. Raouf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial police chief in western Herat province, said the crash happened Sunday morning. He...
A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced ATM Shamsuzzaman’s youngest son ATM Khalequzzaman Kushol to life imprisonment for killing his elder brother ATM Kamruzzaman Kabir 1-and-half-year ago. The court also fined him Tk 50,000 and he will have to suffer 1...
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Stocks ended lower for the second running session on Sunday with turnover dipped below Tk 5.0 billion mark after 10-session as investors followed cautious stance. DSEX, the prime index of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) ended at 4,549.52 points, shedding...
Rice production in Bangladesh will mark a fall by 1.6 per cent in 2050 and 5.05 per cent in 2100 due to climate change, according to a recent report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Citing a study of Bangladesh...
The European Union has threatened Russia with new trade sanctions if Moscow fails to start reversing its action in Ukraine, but sharp divisions among leaders at a summit in Brussels left the timing of any measures uncertain. After a lengthy...
An eight-hour nationwide hartal enforced by Islami Chhatra Sena, the Islamic Front Bangladesh’s student affiliate, was observed lackadaisically and peacefully on Sunday. Chhatra Sena activists took out several pro-hartal processions, including one from the North Gate of Baitul Mukarram Mosque...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the education ministry to expedite the process of implementing the Rangamati Science and Technology University (RSTU) project for expansion of science and technological education in the district. Addressing the officials of the ministry at...
Thirty-two UN peacekeepers were rescued on Saturday from Islamist militants who fired at their post on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights and trapped them for two days, the United Nations said. Another group of 40 Philippine UN peacekeepers...
A pilot lost consciousness and the plane drifted into restricted airspace over the nation's capital, scrambling fighter jets that stayed with the small aircraft until it ran out of fuel and crashed Saturday into the Atlantic Ocean, the Coast Guard...
Two people were killed when a single-engined plane crashed on Saturday in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, media reports said. Four people were aboard the Cessna 177 headed for the ciy of Londrina, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) to...
A Somali police officer says heavily armed suspected Islamic militants have attacked a high security prison in the Somali capital. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said that armed men on Sunday morning invaded the Godka Jilacow prison, which also serves as a...
India is better prepared to handle the impact of interest rate increases in the United States as foreign funds are less likely to desert the country due to signs of an upturn in economic growth, its central bank chief said...
A Libyan coast guard official says a boat carrying more than 100 migrants has capsized off the coast near the capital. Abdel-Latif Mohammed said the coast guard found the damaged rubber boat early Sunday off the shores of al-Qarbouli, 50...
Dhaka University Mass Communication and Journalism Alumni Association (DUMCJAA) organised a seminar on ‘National Broadcasting Policy’ at Prof Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium of Social Sciences Faculty Building on DU campus on Saturday. DU vice chancellor and chief patron of the...
An al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebel group has released five Lebanese soldiers captured earlier this month in a cross-border raid, Lebanon's state news agency said Sunday. The men were taken hostage when militants from Syria took over the Lebanese border town of...
Thousands of anti-government protesters tried to raid the official residence of Pakistan's prime minister, sparking clashes with police that killed three people and wounded nearly 400 amid cries for the premier to step down, officials said Sunday. The overnight violence...
French authorities say a four-story apartment building in a northeastern Paris suburb has partially collapsed after an explosion, killing a child. More people are thought to be underneath the rubble. Speaking on i-Tele, fire department spokesman Gabriel Plus said around...
The Israeli military says a soldier wounded in fighting in the Gaza Strip has died, bringing the Israeli military toll in the recently concluded conflict to 66. The military says 20-year-old Sergeant Shachar Shalev died Sunday. He was wounded on...
Two people drowned in floodwater at Kandapara and Kamarerchor villages in Sherpur Sadar Upazila on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Abdur Rashid, a student of class VII of Char Sripur High School and a resident of Kandapara village and...
A Bangladeshi man was beaten to death allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at Boikari frontier village at Satkhira Sadar Upazila on Sunday. The dead is Ahad Ali, 45, son of Ujir Ali, a resident of Chhoighoria...
A news agency in Iran is reporting that a car crash involving Afghan migrants has killed 14 people. The semiofficial Mehr news agency reported Sunday that the crash between two cars happened late Saturday night on the outskirts of the...
An Australian military aircraft will soon fly guns and ammunition to the northern Iraqi city of Irbil to help Kurds fight Islamic State militants as part of a US-led multination mission, Australia's prime minister said on Sunday. Prime Minister Tony...
Myanmar will start the process of repatriating Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh’s camps within two months in ‘a breakthrough’ in bilateral relations, the foreign secretary has said. M Shahidul Haque said Myanmar will start the process of taking back 2,415...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is calling on Ukraine to immediately start talks on a political solution to the crisis in eastern Ukraine, including discussing statehood. In comments to the national TV network Channel 1, which were reported by Russian news...
The World Health Organization says it is treating Senegal's first confirmed Ebola case ‘as a top priority emergency.’ In a statement distributed Sunday, the WHO said it would address as quickly as possible Senegal's ‘urgent need’ for support and supplies...
Iceland's authorities on Sunday raised the aviation warning code to red for a region close to the subglacial Bardarbunga volcano after a small fissure eruption in the area. The country's meteorological agency described the eruption in the Holuhraun lava field,...
Chinese authorities have ruled out open nominations for elections to choose Hong Kong's leader. Authorities said two to three candidates will be nominated by a ‘broadly representative’ committee. The decision is expected to limit the selection of candidates to pro-Beijing...
Today marks 17 years since Princess Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris. Princess Diana initially survived the Aug. 31, 1997, limousine crash, but later died from her injuries. Egyptian film producer Dodi Al-Fayed and the driver were...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Osaka on Saturday and, within hours, oversaw the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japanese PM Shinzo Abe to turn Varanasi into a ‘smart city’ with help from Kyoto. The pact...
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