DHAKA: Cyclone Pam, a category five tropical storm, is bearing down on Vanuatu after causing destruction in several South Pacific nations.Flash floods and strong winds have hit Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Solomon Islands, causing significant damage, reports BBC.Vanuatu has issued a red

DHAKA: Iraqi government forces advanced into Tikrit on several fronts, forcing Islamic State (IS) militants to fall back to the city centre, officials say.Soldiers and militiamen have reportedly retaken key sites including a police headquarters and a hospital, reports BBC.Iraq’s

DHAKA: Myanmar on Thursday freed from jail more than a dozen students detained this week in a violent crackdown in which riot police beat protesters with batons and arrested 127 people after a lengthy standoff.Tuesday’s crackdown in the town of Letpadan, about 140km north of Yangon,

DHAKA: Saudi police are arresting 1,250 illegal expatriates, including Bangladeshis, daily on average in Makkah region as part of their latest crackdown on foreigners violating the country’s residency and labor laws.A senior Saudi police officer said, Arab News publishes this report

DHAKA: The Sri Lankan president says he hopes to set up a domestic inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the country’s civil war within a month. Maithripala Sirisena said UN investigators would not be involved, despite international pressure. He was speaking to the BBC’s

DHAKA: Seven US Marines and four aircrews were missing and presumed dead after their army helicopter crashed during a night training exercise in Florida on Wednesday. The military officials said this, reports the Times of India on Thursday. The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was reported

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has failed to implement resolutions to protect and help civilians in Syria.A report by a group of 21 aid agencies said this which reports the BBC.The agencies - including Save the Children and Oxfam - say it has been the ‘worst year’ for civilians as

DHAKA: After a federal report alleged widespread racial bias in his department, the police chief Thomas Jackson of Ferguson, Missouri has agreed to resign.Ferguson came under investigation after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager in August, sparking weeks of

DHAKA: Security forces have raided the Karachi headquarters of Pakistan’s fourth biggest political party, detaining ‘hardcore criminals’ and seizing arms.Col Tahir Mahmood said troops acted on information that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was hiding criminals.Schools and

DHAKA: At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded as State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has launched a coordinated attack on government-held areas of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi attack on Wednesday.Police and hospital sources in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province said

DHAKA: A suspected female suicide bomber has killed at least 17 people in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s Borno state.The military and hospital sources said the attacked happened on Tuesday, three days after a multiple bomb attack in the city killed more than 50 people, reports the

DHAKA: China is reviving growth of its nuclear power industry with approval of its first new project since Japan’s 2011 Fukushima disaster.A unit of state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corp. said the Cabinet’s planning agency has approved construction of two additional reactors

DHAKA: Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been summoned as an accused along with five others in a case linked to the coal scam that saw mining rights being assigned without transparency to private firms.A special CBI court Wednesday also named Hindalco, its chairman Kumar

A Delhi court on Wednesday summoned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Coal Secretary P.C. Parakh and industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others as accused in a coal block allocation scam case.Rejecting the CBI's plea for closing the case, Special Judge Bharat Prasahar asked

DHAKA: Myanmar arrested 127 protesters when baton-wielding police dispersed a student rally on Tuesday, as the second crackdown in recent days sparked Western condemnation and fears of a return to the repressive reflexes of the junta era.Two large truckloads of protesters were taken

DHAKA: Colombia is to halt bombing raids against Farc rebels for a month, President Juan Manuel Santos says, in a further sign of progress in the country's peace process. Santos said the move was in recognition of the fact a unilateral ceasefire declared by Farc was holding.But

DHAKA: King Abdullah of Jordan urged Europeans on Tuesday to fight hostility toward Islam that he said was fuelling extremism among Muslims.He also included those drawn from Europe to fight in the Middle East, reports the Jerusalem Post.Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg,

DHAKA: Pakistan is to resume executions for all capital offences, after earlier lifting a moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism offences only.All condemned prisoners who have exhausted the appeals process and whose pleas for clemency are rejected, now face execution, officials

DHAKA: US and coalition forces conducted eight air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Iraq during a 24-hour period, while US forces led four air strikes in Syria.The US military said on Tuesday, reports the Jerusalem Post.The Syria strikes, all near Kobani, hit four Islamic State

DHAKA: At a private working lunch for the five most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council, the conversation turned to the question of the next UN secretary-general.A European ambassador reminded colleagues of a General Assembly resolution nearly as old as the 70-year