DHAKA: Kuwait’s opposition called Saturday for broad democratic reforms including a Western-style party system to limit the powers of the country’s ruling family.The call came in a ‘national political reform programme’, launched by the Opposition Coalition in the state where

DHAKA: As India holds the latest round of its mammoth elections Friday, one man, polygamist and sect leader Zionnghaka Chana, has become the voter every local politician wants to know.With 39 wives and 127 children and grandchildren, Chana is a voter like no other in the remote

DHAKA: A Pakistani judge threw out charges of attempted murder against a nine-month-old baby on Saturday, lawyers said, in a case that cast a spotlight on Pakistan’s dysfunctional justice system.Baby Musa Khan appeared in court in the city of Lahore, sitting on his grandfather’s lap

DHAKA: A group of the world’s leading rich nations will support increasing sanctions against Russia if Moscow escalates the crisis in Ukraine.US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said, reports Al jazeera.‘There is broad and strong unity within the G7 on increasing sanctions and costs in

DHAKA: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who faces a triangular contest from the family pocket borough of Amethi, filed nomination papers from Amethi on Saturday following a massive roadshow.Priyanka Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra accompanied Rahul Gandhi during his 40km-long

DHAKA: Seven members of a polling party and five CRPF personnel were killed as Maoists struck twice on Saturday, blowing up a bus and an ambulance in India’s Bijapur and Bastar districts of Chhattisgarh.A bus carrying a team of poll officials and security personnel was hit by a landmine

DHAKA: A top Iranian official said Saturday that the country was not considering a replacement nominee for its prospective UN envoy who has been denied a US visa.‘We are not considering an alternative pick,’ deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi told Mehr news agency, referring to

DHAKA: Armed men dressed in camouflage clothing have seized a police station in eastern Ukraine.Officials say, reports the BBC.Police said the gang fired shots and used stun grenades to seize the offices in Sloviansk, near the Russian border.Interior Minister Arsen Avakov called the

DHAKA: The searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner amid fears that batteries powering signals from the black box recorder on board may have died.The Guardian reports on Saturday.Search for Flight MH370 was resumed on Saturday, five weeks after the plane disappeared from radar

DHAKA: A German coder admitted that he had introduced the Heartbleed, reported The Wall Street Journal, on Saturday.But it was done by unintentionally, the programmer also said to the media.Robin Seggelmann, a 31-year-old who now works as a contributor to the Internet Engineering Task

DHAKA: The co-pilot of missing Malaysian airliner flight MH370 attempted to make a mid-flight call from his mobile phone just before the plane vanished from radar screens, a report said on Saturday citing unnamed investigators.The call ended abruptly possibly ‘because the aircraft was

DHAKA: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will likely continue for ‘a long time’, Australian prime minister Tony Abbott warned on Saturday, a day after voicing confidence that signals from the black box had been detected.The Australian-led search for the Boeing 777,

DHAKA: Iran`s nomination for UN envoy, Hamid Aboutalebi, has been refused a US visa by the White House.Mr Aboutalebi was linked to the student group that took dozens of people hostage at the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.Rajini Vaidyanathan reports.Source: BBCBDST: 0840 HRS, APR 12, 2014

DHAKA: Voting has begun in seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Goa, Assam, Tripura and Sikkim, where more than 50 lakh voters will decide the fate of 74 candidates. Goa, with two seats, will witness a single phased poll where 19 candidates are in the fray for the North and South Goa

DHAKA: Hopes that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 might soon be found fluctuated on Friday.The most recent acoustic signal detected Thursday by an Australian aircraft in the search is "unlikely to be related to the aircraft black boxes," Australian chief search coordinator Angus Houston said

DHAKA: A woman was taken into custody after throwing what she described as a shoe at HillaryClinton during a Las Vegas speech.The incident happened moments after Clinton took the stage Thursday at an Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries meeting at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino.Clinton

DHAKA: At least nine people were killed Thursday when a tour bus collided with a truck in Glenn County, California, said California Highway Patrol Officer Timothy Howath.CNN affiliate KRCR reported the passengers on the bus were students going to visit colleges. The bus collided with a

DHAKA: The US has accused Russia of using its energy supplies "as a tool of coercion" to try to control Ukraine.It comes after Russia warned European countries of possible gas supply cuts because of Ukraine`s energy debts, reports the BBC.Separately, Nato has defended the accuracy of

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has unanimously approved the creation of a UN peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic to try to stop violence between Christians and Muslims that has threatened to spiral into genocide.The force, authorised by the 15-member council on Thursday,

DHAKA: US health secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning following the problematic launch of president Barack Obama’s healthcare law.US media report, says the BBC.The law, regarded by the president’s supporters as one of his main domestic achievements, has been marked by early