DHAKA: Thailand’s Constitutional Court said it would decide on Thursday whether to accept a case against holding February 2 election that would almost certainly extend the government’s shaky grip on power as protesters try to force it from office. The government declared a 60-day

DHAKA: Five policemen have been killed in Egypt in an armed attack on a checkpoint south of Cairo.Egypt interior ministry has said, reports the BBC.Two others were injured, one seriously, in the attack in Beni Suef province, some 100km from the capital.Two men riding motorcycles ‘opened

DHAKA: Police in India`s West Bengal have held 13 people in connection with a gang rape of a woman allegedly on orders of village elders who objected to her relationship with a man.The 20-year-old woman has been admitted to a hospital in a critical condition, reports BBC.Unofficial courts

DHAKA: The biggest union in South Africa`s platinum sector has called a strike over pay, the biggest in the sector since the 2012 Marikana massacre.On that occasion 34 protesting miners taking part in an illegal wage protest were gunned down by police, reports BBC.Thursday`s strike over

DHAKA: UN mediator for Syrian peace talks Lakhdar Brahimi is to hold separate talks with rival delegations to assess their willingness to meet together.The behind-the-scenes negotiations follow the first day of a major peace conference in Switzerland which ended in bitter divisions,

DHAKA: In his final moments, 8-year-old Tyler Doohan managed to rescue six people -- including two younger children -- from a burning mobile home in upstate New York, authorities said.A last-ditch effort, however, to save his disabled grandfather cost the boy his life. His body was found

DHAKA: Washington on Wednesday upped the ante against the Syrian regime, denouncing its ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ at the opening of key peace talks and dismissing claims of improved aid access as ‘laughable’.‘Instead of laying out a positive vision for the future of Syria that is

DHAKA: India union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday called Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal a ‘mad chief minister’, saying he had to cancel the leave of several policemen because of Kejriwal.India TV channels reported, says Hindustan Times.Speaking at an event in

DHAKA: Talks in Switzerland between Syria’s government and its enemies to end the country’s three years of civil war are unlikely to be successful, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday.Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, says The Jerusalem Post.‘Because of the

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said it was the main task of the Syria peace conference that opened in Switzerland on Wednesday ‘to achieve an end to the tragic conflict’ and prevent a spillover to other countries in the region. Lavrov, in his opening remarks, called on

DHAKA: New Yorkers awoke Wednesday morning to the sound of plows clearing the streets.In Washington, federal workers got in a few extra zzz’s. And in Boston, parents scrambled to make other arrangements as kids enjoyed a snow day.The heaviest snowfall of the season has blanketed the

DHAKA: Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem called the country’s opposition ‘traitors’ and foreign ‘agents’ as a peace conference opened in Switzerland on Wednesday.‘They claim to represent the Syrian people,’ Muallem said in opening remarks, reports The Straits Times.‘If

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry said during opening statements at the Geneva 2 summit that there is no way current Syrian president Bashar Assad can be part of a new transitional government.Kerry added that Assad cannot regain legitimacy to govern in Syria, reports The Jerusalem

DHAKA: Defiant Thai opposition protesters vowed to ignore a state of emergency that came into force across the tense capital on Wednesday, refusing to abandon their fight to bring down the government.Thailand prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is under intense pressure to step down after

DHAKA: A Taliban commander was killed in Pakistan’s tribal area of North Waziristan on Tuesday in military strikes.Geo News reported, says NDTV.Adnan Rashid was killed in military strikes, said security sources. But the Taliban denied the report.Earlier on Tuesday, military jets and

DHAKA: A major conference aimed at finding a solution to the three-year conflict in Syria which has left 100,000 dead is starting in Switzerland.The Syrian government and the main opposition are attending the Geneva II summit along with international allies, reports the BBC.UN secretary

DHAKA: A bomb targeting a polio security team in north-west Pakistan has killed six policemen and a boy, police say.The blast occurred near a police van in a market in Charsadda district, injuring at least nine others, reports the BBC.On Tuesday, three health workers taking part in a

DHAKA: Xu Zhiyong, a prominent human rights lawyer who campaigned against corruption, has gone on trial in China. Xu is charged with "gathering crowds to disrupt public order". He is one of several activists from a transparency movement to be tried this week.Rights groups have criticised

DHAKA: An Iranian-American engineer accused of attempting to ship stolen documentation on a high-tech military plane to Iran has been indicted, US authorities say.A grand jury in the US state of Connecticut charged Mozaffar Khazaee, 59, with two counts of transporting stolen goods.He was

DHAKA: A rare blue diamond has been discovered in a mine in South Africa.The 29.6-carat stone was recovered by Petra Diamonds at its Cullinan mine, about 40km (25 miles) north-east of Pretoria, reports BBC."This stone is one of the most exceptional stones recovered at Cullinan during