Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the last two years. The social networking site said about 80,000 posts were produced before and after the 2016 presidential election. Most of the posts focused on

President Donald Trump's onetime campaign chairman, Paul Manafort was indicted on 12 counts related to hiding foreign payments, including one count of "conspiracy against the United States." Manafort's former longtime business partner, Rick Gates, also was charged in the 31

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia is starting to ease restrictions on women spectators in sports stadiums. The country will allow the women into stadiums for the first time from next year. The authorities of the country said this on Sunday, in a landmark move opening up three previously male-only

DHAKA: A suicide truck bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia’s capital on Saturday (October 28), killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 30, reports The Guardian.  Two more blasts were heard, one when an attacker detonated a suicide vest and police said gunfire

DHAKA: The Spanish government has stripped Catalonia of its autonomy and taken charge of its government, reports BBC. The measures early on Saturday (October 28) came after the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence on Friday (October 27). An official state bulletin

DHAKA: The Spanish government has stripped Catalonia of its autonomy and taken charge of its government, reports BBC. The measures early on Saturday (October 28) came after the Catalan parliament voted to declare independence on Friday (October 27). An official state bulletin

DHAKA: The Madrid government sacked Catalonia’s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday (October 27), hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain’s gravest political crisis, reports Reuters. A new regional election will be held in Catalonia on

The Catalan regional parliament has voted to declare independence from Spain, just as the Spanish government appears set to impose direct rule. The move was backed 70-10 in a ballot boycotted by opposition MPs, reports the BBC. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy earlier told

Catalonia's regional Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Friday (Oct 27) in favor of independence from Spain, taking the country's political crisis into uncharted territory. The vote came as the Spanish Senate debated the Madrid government's unprecedented plans to seize

Myanmar Consul General in Kolkata Pyi Soe was killed in a road accident in Jharkhand on Friday (Oct 27). Three others, including his wife Nyo, were seriously injured after their car collided with a truck in Jharkhand's Giridih district, about 180 km from Ranchi, this morning.

Controversial preacher Zakir Naik deliberately insulted the religious beliefs of Hindus, Christians and Islamic sects like Shia, Sufi and Barelvi, and his speeches influenced recruits to the cause of the so-called Islamic State, the National Investigation Agency has said. The agency

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