DHAKA: One of India's most bitterly fought elections comes to a close Monday with voting in Varanasi, featuring two of the most watched politicians in the country - Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal - and 40 other constituencies across three states. The results will be declared on

DHAKA: At least 36 migrants drowned when their boat sank off the Libyan coast earlier this week, officials said, following the recovery of more bodies on Sunday. The navy said it rescued 52 people when the boat sank on Tuesday, but survivors say there were 130 people on board. On

DHAKA: At least 15 people were killed in a stampede at a football match in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, officials say. Reports say the trouble began after police fired tear gas in the crowded stadium, causing panic. More than 20 people were injured. Local

DHAKA: South-east Asia’s regional bloc called on Sunday for a ‘peaceful resolution’ to the political crisis gripping Thailand, days after a controversial court ruling removed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra from power.The 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean)

DHAKA: The chairman of Samsung Electronics is in a ‘stable condition’ after undergoing emergency heart surgery. The Samsung Medical Center says, reports the BBC. Lee Kun-hee underwent the operation after suffering breathing difficulties late on Saturday night. The hospital said he

DHAKA: India’s Election Commission on Sunday issued a notice to Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal for his alleged remark that ‘those who vote for Congress, BJP will commit treachery against God and country’. The AAP convener during a road show in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, which

DHAKA: At least 11 people have been killed after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a military police base in al-Mukalla, in southeast Yemen.Witnesses in the provincial capital of Hadramawt reported an ambulance ferrying casualties to a city hospital on Sunday, reports

DHAKA: North Korea accused South Korea Sunday of fabricating a story about crashed spy drones in order to divert attention from its ferry disaster.The drones were recovered in three different locations in the South between March 24 and April 6.The South’s defence ministry last week

DHAKA: Malaysia prime minister Najib Razak said his patience should not be interpreted as a weakness, and added that he believes Malaysians want more space to debate issues without fear of being arrested.He was asked in an interview about his inaction over controversial issues that are

DHAKA: Gunmen have killed at least 42 soldiers in separate attacks in the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Mosul.Police sources told Al Jazeera that 22 soldiers who had been kidnapped in Fallujah on Friday were killed on Saturday night.In a separate incident, fighters kidnapped troops from a

DHAKA: Tension prevailed in some areas of the city on Sunday after a clash between two communities over the construction of a water kiosk near a mosque left seven people injured even as police registered cases against 200 people in connection with the violence. Security has been

DHAKA: The Afghan presidential election front-runner, Abdullah Abdullah, has won the backing of a key rival, forming the contest’s first major coalition.Zalmai Rassoul, the successor favoured by outgoing president Hamid Karzai, pledged his support for Abdullah, the top candidate from

DHAKA: UK prime minister David Cameron has promised Britain ‘will do what we can’ to help find more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. He made the comments as he held a sign bearing the ‘#Bring Back Our Girls’ slogan on the BBC's Andrew Marr show. Cameron is the latest

DHAKA: Seven policemen were on Sunday killed and two others injured when Maoists carried out a landmine blast in India’s Maharashtra state’s Gadchiroli district. The incident occurred at 9:40am when the policemen were moving for an operational task in the forest between Pavimuranda

DHAKA: The head of Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest business empire, underwent an emergency operation Sunday after developing symptoms of heart failure, hospital officials said. Lee Kun Hee, 72, was admitted to a hospital near his home in Seoul Saturday night due to a respiratory

DHAKA: India’s frontrunner for prime minister Narendra Modi urged voters to turn out in record numbers to throw the scandal-plagued Congress party from power as a bitter, marathon election campaign drew to a close. Modi, from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, made his final appeal

DHAKA: The ruling African National Congress party (ANC) has won a landslide victory in South Africa's fifth democratic election, the country's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has said. Addressing the country in a glitzy ceremony on Saturday evening in Pretoria, Pansy Tlakula,

DHAKA: Austrian drag act Conchita Wurst has been crowned the winner of the 59th annual Eurovision Song Contest held in Denmark's capital, Copenhagen. The singer, whose real name is Tom Neuwirth, won with the song Rise Like a Phoenix, collecting 290 points. The Netherlands finished

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's two eastern regions are to hold "self-rule" referendums - a move condemned by Kiev and the West. Self-proclaimed leaders in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are going ahead with the vote despite Russian President Vladimir Putin's call to

DHAKA: Campaigning has ended in India's marathon general election, two days before the final votes are cast. In the closing phase of the contest, several major parties held rallies in Uttar Pradesh, a battleground northern state which is among the last to vote. Rahul Gandhi, of the