DHAKA: US President Donald Trump's Twitter account briefly vanished on Thursday (November 2), but has since been restored, reports BBC quoting the social media company authority. It said that the @realdonaldtrump account was "deactivated" by an employee, later clarifying that it

DHAKA: United States lawmakers proposed targeted sanctions and travel restrictions on Myanmar military officials over the treatment of the country’s Rohingya people, reports Reuters. Introduced the day before Republican Donald Trump leaves on his first trip to Asia as president, the

Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Thursday (Nov 2) urged people “not to quarrel” during her first visit to Rakhine State since a military crackdown that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee in neighboring Bangladesh.  Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize

DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ranked 30th among the world’s 100 most powerful women in 2017 by influential business magazine Forbes.  The list of 100 most powerful women by the US-based global magazine published Wednesday (November 1).  In the list, Hasina

DHAKA: The Malaysian authorities detained more than a hundred immigrant workers including 60 Bangladeshis in a drive conducted at a market in Kuala Lumpur, as part of the crackdown on illegal immigrants. The drive was conducted at Kenanga Wholesale City in Hang Tuah Road, since the

DHAKA: Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Rakhine state on her first visit to the violence-torn state, reports BBC. Myanmar government officials said she is visiting the regional capital Sittwe and other towns during a one-day unannounced trip. She has

DHAKA: Three people have died in a shooting at a Walmart Supercenter in the Denver, Colorado, suburb of Thornton in United States on Wednesday night (November 1), reports The Denver Post. Customers and employees inside the Thornton store, located about 10 miles north of Denver, fled

DHAKA: At least eight people were killed and 11 seriously hurt in New York after the driver of a truck mowed down people on a cycle path in Lower Manhattan of New York City. A 29-year-old man who emerged from the white pick-up truck was shot by a police officer and arrested. Officials

Over 200 construction workers are feared dead after the collapse of a tunnel at a nuclear test site in North Korea, according to a Japanese media report. The tunnel was being built at the Punggye-ri test site when it collapsed, according to a report on Japan's TV Asahi citing an

Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the last two years. The social networking site said about 80,000 posts were produced before and after the 2016 presidential election. Most of the posts focused on

President Donald Trump's onetime campaign chairman, Paul Manafort was indicted on 12 counts related to hiding foreign payments, including one count of "conspiracy against the United States." Manafort's former longtime business partner, Rick Gates, also was charged in the 31

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia is starting to ease restrictions on women spectators in sports stadiums. The country will allow the women into stadiums for the first time from next year. The authorities of the country said this on Sunday, in a landmark move opening up three previously male-only

DHAKA: A suicide truck bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital on Saturday (October 28), killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 30, reports The Guardian.  Two more blasts were heard, one when an attacker detonated a suicide vest and police said gunfire

DHAKA: The Spanish government has stripped Catalonia of its autonomy and taken charge of its government, reports BBC. The measures early on Saturday (October 28) came after the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence on Friday (October 27). An official state bulletin

DHAKA: The Spanish government has stripped Catalonia of its autonomy and taken charge of its government, reports BBC. The measures early on Saturday (October 28) came after the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence on Friday (October 27). An official state bulletin

DHAKA: The Madrid government sacked Catalonia’s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday (October 27), hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain’s gravest political crisis, reports Reuters. A new regional election will be held in Catalonia on

The Catalan regional parliament has voted to declare independence from Spain, just as the Spanish government appears set to impose direct rule. The move was backed 70-10 in a ballot boycotted by opposition MPs, reports the BBC. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy earlier told

Catalonia's regional Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Friday (Oct 27) in favor of independence from Spain, taking the country's political crisis into uncharted territory. The vote came as the Spanish Senate debated the Madrid government's unprecedented plans to seize

Myanmar Consul General in Kolkata Pyi Soe was killed in a road accident in Jharkhand on Friday (Oct 27). Three others, including his wife Nyo, were seriously injured after their car collided with a truck in Jharkhand's Giridih district, about 180 km from Ranchi, this morning.

Controversial preacher Zakir Naik deliberately insulted the religious beliefs of Hindus, Christians and Islamic sects like Shia, Sufi and Barelvi, and his speeches influenced recruits to the cause of the so-called Islamic State, the National Investigation Agency has said. The agency