DHAKA: Ukraine’s prime minister on Wednesday accused Russia of ‘exporting terrorism’ to Ukraine by using covert forces to organise armed separatists who he said had attacked Ukrainian forces and occupied state buildings.‘The Russian government must immediately call off its

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of workers were on strike Wednesday at a factory in southern China which makes shoes for Nike and Adidas.Rights groups and a worker said, reports The Straits Times.More than 30,000 staff at the Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) factory in Dongguan city have been

DHAKA: A mini-submarine making its second dive in the hunt for missing Malaysian jet MH370 encountered a ‘technical difficulty’ and resurfaced on Wednesday, officials said, after the first mission also aborted.‘The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Bluefin-21, was forced to resurface

DHAKA: Two people were died and almost 180 more had been rescued and more than 100 people are unaccounted for in ferry capsize incident.A total of 34 naval, coastguard and civilian ships were involved in rescue efforts, as well as 18 helicopters.   Earlier a ferry with about 450 people

DHAKA: Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria.Parents say, reports the BBC.Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel’s teenage residents on to four lorries.Parents told the BBC’s

DHAKA: Iran has complained to the United Nations over the decision by the United States to refuse a visa for its newly appointed permanent representative.Iran’s deputy envoy at the UN in New York, Hossein Dehghani, wrote that the US had violated its legal obligations and set a dangerous

DHAKA: India’s Supreme Court has recognised transgender people as a third gender, in a landmark ruling.‘It is the right of every human being to choose their gender,’ it said in granting rights to those who identify themselves as neither male nor female.It ordered the government to

DHAKA: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Tuesday delivered a scathing appraisal of her estranged and younger cousin Varun, who filed his nomination papers as the BJP candidate from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh.‘Anybody... no matter how close they are, as blood relations... if they are going to be on

DHAKA: Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi must do one year’s community service over tax fraud.A Milan court has ruled, reports the BBC.He was convicted of tax fraud in connection with TV rights purchased by his firm Mediaset.The alternative to community service had been

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists ignored an ultimatum to leave occupied government buildings in eastern Ukraine and instead seized more buildings as Kiev failed to follow through on a threatened military crackdown.The armed separatists on Tuesday remained in control of government offices in

DHAKA: A senior Afghan government official was kidnapped along with his driver on his way to work in Kabul on Tuesday.An interior ministry official said, reports The Straits Times.Ahmad Shah Waheed, deputy minister for public works, was taken by gunmen at around 7:00am (0230 GMT) from the

DHAKA: The EU and the US say they will impose ‘further costs’ on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, as unrest continues in the east of the country.EU foreign ministers said on Monday they would expand a list of names targeted by EU sanctions.Tension has been rising in Ukraine, with

DHAKA: A leading UK site for parents and the Canadian tax authority have both announced they have had data stolen by hackers exploiting the Heartbleed bug.Mumsnet, which says it has 1.5 million registered members, said that it believed that the cyber thieves may have obtained passwords

DHAKA: Syrian soldiers backed by Hizbollah fighters recaptured the town of Maaloula, north of Damascus, on Monday, military sources and state television said, further squeezing rebels’ supply routes through the Qalamoun mountains into Lebanon.Islamist fighters, some from the

DHAKA: The Guardian and Washington Post have shared the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for a series of stories on US electronic spying.Their reporting was based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.Among other winners of the top

DHAKA: A Utah woman has been accused of killing six of her own babies after their bodies were discovered in cardboard boxes at her former house.Megan Huntsman, 39, gave birth to the babies between 1996 and 2006.Seven bodies were found by police at the house in Pleasant Grove; it is

DHAKA: UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline is facing a criminal investigation in Poland for allegedly bribing doctors, BBC Panorama has discovered.Eleven doctors and a GSK regional manager have been charged over alleged corruption between 2010 and 2012.A former sales representative said

DHAKA: More than 70 people have been killed in two blasts that rocked a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria`s capital, Abuja.The blast happened as commuters were about to board buses and taxis to go to work in central Abuja, reported the BBC.Eyewitnesses said there were dead

DHAKA: Teams searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane are to deploy a robotic submarine for the first time.Search chief Angus Houston said the Bluefin-21 drone would be sent down as soon as possible to search for wreckage on the sea floor.Teams have been using a towed pinger

DHAKA: A least 36 people were killed when a bus slammed into a broken-down truck and burst into flames on Sunday in southern Veracruz state of Mexico, reports BBC.Four people survived after the bus burst into flames.A statement from the state civil defence agency said the victims were