DHAKA: The BSF on Friday (October 28) said it had killed 15 Pakistani paramilitary personnel while retaliating to cross-border shelling and firing in which two Indian civilians were killed and two injured in Jammu region. Firing mortar shells and using automatic weapons, Pakistani

DHAKA: Philippine anti-narcotics officers gunned down a town mayor and nine of his men in a clash in one of the bloodiest operations since President Rodrigo Duterte launched a crackdown on illegal drugs. Samsudin Dimaukom, mayor of the southern town of Saudi Ampatuan, was one of more

DHAKA: Delegates from 24 countries and the European Union have agreed that the Ross Sea in Antarctica will become the world’s largest marine protected area (MPA). Some 1.57 million sq km (600,000 sq miles) of the Southern Ocean will gain protection from fishing for 35 years, reports

DHAKA: Saida Ahmad Baghili’s piercing eyes look up from a Yemen hospital bed as if pleading for help. She is 18, but the children’s clothes that drape her emaciated body appear too large for her in photos released this week, reports CNN. Baghili is being treated for severe

Hours after India expelled a Pakistan High Commission staffer for espionage, Pakistan summoned the Indian envoy in Islamabad and asked that an Indian official, Surjeet Singh, leave Pakistan. A communique from Pakistan’s foreign ministry said Surjeet Singh has been declared “persona

DHAKA: Global wildlife populations have fallen by 58% since 1970, a report says. The Living Planet assessment, by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and WWF, suggests that if the trend continues that decline could reach two-thirds among vertebrates by 2020. The figures suggest

Two strong earthquakes have hit central Italy, damaging buildings and sending scared residents into the streets. A 5.5-magnitude quake struck at 7:10 pm local time (1710 GMT) near Visso in Macerata province, officials said. It was followed two hours later by a 6.1 magnitude tremor

DHAKA: France says that it has completed the clearance of the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais, three days after it began an operation to demolish it. The announcement, from a regional official, came with fires still burning in the camp, after blazes were set overnight and in the

DHAKA: Fighters have killed at least 30 civilians, including children, after abducting them in the remote Afghan province of Ghor. According to officials and police on Wednesday (October 26), suspected ISIL fighters killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday in the Firozkoh district in

DHAKA: ISIS is sending “suicide squads” from Syria to its Iraqi stronghold of Mosul. Witnesses have told CNN that as tens of thousands of troops close in on the key city to take it from the militant group’s control. Witnesses said hundreds of new arrivals had streamed into

DHAKA: An Afghan woman immortalized on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985 as a green-eyed 12-year-old has been arrested in Pakistan for possessing fake identity papers. Sharbat Gula could now face a fine and up to 14 years in jail, reports the BBC. Officials said she

DHAKA: The International Energy Agency says that the world's capacity to generate electricity from renewable sources has now overtaken coal. The IEA says in a new report that last year, renewables accounted for more than half of the increase in power capacity, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized Democrat runner Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy plan in Syria saying it would trigger World War Three. He said the US should focus on defeating the so-called Islamic State rather than convincing Syrian President Bashar

DHAKA: A 5.0 magnitude earthquake jolted neighbor country Myanmar on Wednesday morning (October 26). According to the initial report of US Geological Survey (USGS), the quake struck at 8:21 am (Bangladesh time). The epicenter of the quake was located at 83-km southeast of Mawlaik,

DHAKA: A war-torn state and a country ruled by an oppressive military junta for decades are home to the world's most generous people, research suggests. People in Iraq are the kindest to strangers, while Myanmar’s residents give the most away, according to the CAF World Giving

DHAKA: At least 12 people have been killed in an attack targeting non-Muslims in Mandera county near the Somalia border. Mohamed Saleh, Mandera’s regional commander, said on Tuesday (October 25) fighters from al-Shabab, the Somali armed group, were suspected of carrying out the

DHAKA: Major factions of Venezuela’s opposition coalition have denied joining government-proposed talks, just hours after the group’s head agreed to hold dialogue with President Nicolas Maduro following intervention by the Vatican. In a surprise move, Jesus Torrealba, the leader of

DHAKA: The death toll from a powerful explosion that destroyed buildings in the Chinese city of Yulin has risen to at least 10, with more than 150 people injured. There are reports of a large crater where a two-storey building once stood, and images show widespread damage, with rubble

DHAKA: Four people have been killed on a ride at the Dreamworld theme park on Australia's Gold Coast, police have confirmed. Media reports said the accident happened on the Thunder River Rapids ride. Queensland police had said they were attending a “critical incident” at the

At least 59 cadets were killed and 116 injured after terrorists stormed into a Police Training College in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday night. Talking to the media, Balochistan Home Minister Sarfraz Bugti said that the operation has been completed by security forces, reports