UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced a series of measures to punish Russia Wednesday (March 14), following a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury. The measures include the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats, the single biggest expulsion in over 30

DHAKA: Nobel prize-winning scientist Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76, reports BBC quoting his family. The British theoretical physicist was known for his groundbreaking work with black holes and relativity, and was the author of several popular science books including A Brief

US President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. With Pompeo moving, CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel will take over the running of that department, reports the Independent. The change comes at a delicate time for US

Nepal's first woman president Bidya Devi Bhandari was reelected for a second term in office on Tuesday (March 13).  Incumbent President Bhandari defeated Nepali Congress leader Kumari Laxmi Rai with an overwhelming majority in the presidential election.  Bhandari, 56, won

DHAKA: Nepal launched investigation after retrieving the flight data recorder from the wreckage of the US-Bangla Airlines plane that crashed, killing at least 50 people on board, as it attempted to land at Kathmandu, reports SBS News.  “The flight data recorder has been recovered we

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) plans to put up a Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) in areas along the India-Bangladesh border, where it is difficult to put up a fence due to the nature of the terrain as well as check cross-border infiltration and smuggling. 

DHAKA: At least nine people died in a forest fire in Kurangani hills in Tamil Nadu of India Sunday (March 11), reports Times of India. As many as 36 trekkers-- 24 from Chennai, including 23 women, and 12 from Tiruppur, including three women and three children-- were caught in the fire

China has approved the removal of term limits for its leader, in a move that effectively allows Xi Jinping to remain as president for life. The constitutional changes were passed by China's annual sitting of the National People's Congress on Sunday (March 11). The vote was

Stating that human beings have the right to die with dignity, the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday (March 9) allowed passive euthanasia, but made sure to set out strict guidelines that will govern when it is permitted. The top court also allowed an individual to draft a living will

DHAKA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has invited Donald Trump to meet him, an unprecedented overture which the US leader has said he will accept, reports BBC. The shock announcement was made by senior South Korean officials in Washington, who passed on a letter from the North Korean

DHAKA: After losing many awards and titles, Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has lost a prestigious human rights ‘Elie Wiesel Award’ given to her by US Holocaust Memorial Museum.  The Museum said on March 7 that it has rescinded its top award to Myanmar leader Aung

DHAKA: A Russian transport plane crashed in Syria killing all 32 passengers and six crew members believed to have been on board, reports Al Jazeera. The An-26 plane crashed during landing at Hmeimim airbase, near the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, the ministry is quoted as saying by

DHAKA: Myanmar is still continuing its "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya Muslims with a "campaign of terror and forced starvation" in Rakhine state of Myanmar, a UN human rights official said on Tuesday (March 6). More than six months after an army crackdown triggered a security

Twenty four people died as a result of a fire which tore through a drug rehabilitation clinic in the Azerbaijani capital Baku early Friday, officials said. "At 06:10 am a fire happened at the Republican Narcological Centre in Baku," the General Prosecutor's Office, the health,

Russia has developed a new array of nuclear weapons that are invincible, according to President Vladimir Putin. Putin made the revelation as he laid out his key policies for a fourth presidential term, ahead of an election he is expected to win in 17 days' time, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Former Honduran First Lady Rosa Elena Bonilla de Lobo was arrested for embezzling about 510,000 US dollars from public funds, reports New Straits Times. Bonilla, 51, whose husband Porfirio Lobo served as president from 2010 to 2014, was arrested on Wednesday (February 28) from

DHAKA: Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump's longest-serving advisers, is to step down, reports BBC quoting the administration, reports BBC. The 29-year-old former model and ex-Trump Organization employee has been by Trump's side for

DHAKA: At least 15 people were killed in train collision in northern Egypt, the health ministry said.  Another 40 people were hurt in the collision between a freight train and a passenger train in Beheira province, reports the Al-Jazeera quoting ministry’s a statement. Egyptians

DHAKA: US president Donald Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser, Jared Kushner, has lost access to the most valued US intelligence report, the “President’s Daily Brief”, reports Irish Times. The White House imposes greater discipline on access to secrets, two officials familiar

DHAKA: The Treasury Department of the United State of America has added two individuals and seven organizations in Africa nations and Asia connected to Islamic State to its sanctions list for global terrorism, reports WixNews. The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)