DHAKA: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke with Myanmar’s army chief and expressed concern over the atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, reports Reuters. Tillerson urged the army chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, to support the Myanmar government in ending

DHAKA: At least 47 people were killed and dozens were inured in an explosion and fire at a firecracker factory near the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday (October 26), report Indonesian media. The fire began in the morning at the factory next to a residential area in Tangerang, a

A Pakistan court on Thursday (October 26) issued arrest warrant for ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after he failed to appear before the court in two cases of corruption, report Pakistani local media. Nawaz Sharif is now in London with his wife Kalsum as she undergoes cancer

China's ruling Communist Party has voted to enshrine Xi Jinping's name and ideology in its constitution, elevating him to the level of founder Mao Zedong. The unanimous vote to incorporate "Xi Jinping Thought" happened at the end of the Communist Party congress, China's

DHAKA:  The United States is taking steps and considering a range of further actions over Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority, including targeted sanctions reports Reuters.  “We express our gravest concern with recent events in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and the

DHAKA: Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said the region will not accept Madrid’s plan for direct rule, reports BBC. He described it as the worst attack on Catalonia's institutions since General Franco's 1939-1975 dictatorship, under which regional autonomy was dissolved.

Professor Dr Samir Kumar Saha, a prominent Bangladeshi microbiologist of has been named as the winner of the UNESCO Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology in 2017. His named was announced for the prize along with a Pakistani microbiologist Shahida Hasnain. The prize will be handed

DHAKA: Pakistani journalist Zeenat Shahzadi, who went missing in Lahore in 2015, has been recovered by security forces, reports The Dawn. Pakistan head of the missing persons commission Retired Justice Javed Iqbal confirmed Shahzadi's return while speaking to BBC Urdu.  Zeenat

DHAKA:  A landslide in Tanjung Bungah area of Malaysia’s George Town left three people dead while at least 11 others including Bangladesh national are feared buried. A 10m-high hill slope came crashing down next to a construction site not far from the Penang campus of the Tunku

DHAKA: At least 35 police officers were killed in a shoot-out with suspected militants in Giza area of southwest Cairo, reports Al Arabiya. Security sources in Egypt said that the police officers were killed in a shoot-out on Friday (October 20) during a raid on a suspected militant

International Desk A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people inside a Shi'ite mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday night (Oct 20), a security official said, the latest in a string of violent attacks on the country's Shi'ite minority. The attack occurred at

DHAKA: Students at the Oxford college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied have voted to remove her name from its junior common room, reports BBC. The JCR Committee at St Hugh's College said the de-facto leader of Myanmar's response to reports of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims

DHAKA: Bangladesh and Somalia have been ranked the top affected countries of pollution whereas pollution has been linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, said a study of US based medical journal The Lancet.  Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- and middle-income

DHAKA: Spain is to start suspending Catalonian autonomy on Saturday (October 21), as its leader threatened to declare independence, reports BBC. The Spanish government said ministers would meet to activate Article 155 of the constitution, allowing it to take over running of the region.

DHAKA: A massive fire has destroyed an iconic luxury hotel in Myanmar's capital Yangon, and killed one person, reports BBC. Two others were injured in the blaze which began around 03:00 (20:30 GMT) Wednesday (October 18) at the Kandawgyi Palace. The hotel, which was largely made

DHAKA: The Taliban launched a major attack on an army base in southern Kandahar province killing at least 43 Afghan soldiers, reports Al Jazeera. The brazen assault on Thursday (October 19) began with two suicide car bombings, setting of several hours of fighting. Of 60 soldiers

Myanmar security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International said in a new report Wednesday that calls for an arms embargo on the country and criminal prosecution of the perpetrators. More than 580,000

DHAKA: United States novelist George Saunders has won the Man Booker prize for his novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ - becoming the second US author to take home the fiction award, reports BBC. The book tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's grief after the death of his young son, and

DHAKA: At least 71 people were killed in a series of attacks by the Taliban in Paktia and Ghazni provinces of Afghanistan, reports Al Jazeera. Of them, up to 41 people have died in a suicide bombing and gun battle, which injured 150 others, at a police training centre in Gardez,

A US-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters says it has taken full control of so-called Islamic State's one-time "capital" of Raqqa. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello said the fighting was over after a five-month assault, reports the BBC. Clearing