DHAKA: A government official says at least 33 people died and 28 others were injured when an overcrowded bus veered off a mountain highway in Nepal. Home ministry official Chiranjivi Nepal said the injured people were brought by helicopter to Kathmandu and are being treated in two

DHAKA: A preliminary investigation at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport has found no evidence of gunfire inside one of its terminals despite earlier reports of shots being heard, according to the airport’s operator. No gun casings were found after a search of Terminal

DHAKA: Gunmen shot and injured 10 police paramilitaries Monday who were trying to impose a curfew in the main city of Kashmir during Indian Independence Day, security sources said. Three of those who were wounded are in a serious condition, according to a spokesman for the Central

DHAKA: The leader of India’s main opposition Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, has been discharged from hospital where she had surgery to repair a shoulder injury, doctors say. Her condition is stable and she has been advised to rest, doctors at Delhi’s Ganga Ram Hospital said, reports

DHAKA: At least 10 children have been killed and about 30 injured in an air strike on a school in the stronghold of Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to a medical aid group. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Saturday that the victims were aged between eight and 15 and attended a

DHAKA: The former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has made a rare public appearance at an event to mark his 90th birthday. He appeared at a gala in Havana’s Karl Marx Theatre with his brother, President Raul Castro, and Cuba’s ally, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has authorized a 4,000-strong regional protection force for South Sudan’s capital, Juba. These African troops will have a more robust mandate than the 12,000 UN soldiers already in the country. South Sudan’s government has said it opposes the move,

DHAKA: Six people were killed Friday when a small private aircraft crashed at Shannon Airport in Fredericksburg, Virginia of USA. The plane was attempting to land, but pulled back up at the end of the runway, reports CNN. “It attempted to abort the landing and take off again,”

DHAKA: More than 70 Republicans have signed a letter to the party’s National Committee head urging him to stop helping Donald Trump’s campaign. They said Trump’s “divisiveness” and “incompetence” risked drowning the party in November’s election, reports the BBC. The

DHAKA: Burkinis are among the overtly religious outfits banned from some of France’s most popular beaches, amid growing terror concerns. Cannes, a city on the French Riviera famous for its annual film festival, has banned overtly religious clothing on the beach in the wake of recent

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed his close ally and powerful chief of staff Sergei Ivanov. According to a Kremlin statement, the move represents the highest-level demotion inside the Kremlin in several years. “Russian President Vladimir Putin has decreed to

DHAKA: A series of blasts across Thailand has targeted tourist towns, killing four people and injuring dozens. In the resort town of Hua Hin, south of Bangkok, four bombs exploded over the last 24 hours, reports the BBC. Several blasts also hit the island of Phuket, one

DHAKA: A massive 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of New Caledonia on Friday (August 12). The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck at a depth of about 9km and 109 kilometers east of Ile Hunter in New Caledonia at 1:26 GMT. However, there was no

Two bombs have exploded in the Thai resort of Hua Hin, killing one woman and injuring 10 people including foreign tourists, bbc.com reports. The bombs were hidden in plant pots spaced 50m (164 ft) apart, and detonated by mobile phones within half an hour of each other, they add.

DHAKA: Libyan pro-government forces say they have captured the headquarters of Islamic State (IS) of Iraq and Syria in Sirte, scoring a major victory in the group’s last stronghold in the country. The fighters, mainly from the nearby city of Misrata, who were supported by US air

DHAKA: Arianna Huffington, who co-founded The Huffington Post 11 years ago and built it into one of the largest digital media outlets in the US, says she will be leaving the company in the coming weeks to focus on a soon-to-launch startup dedicated to issues of health and wellness.

DHAKA: Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of founding the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that is wreaking havoc from the Middle East to European cities. A moment later, on another topic, he emphasized the president’s full legal name: Barack Hussein

DHAKA: The last doctors in the rebel-held east of the Syrian city of Aleppo have urged US President Barack Obama to come to the aid of the 250,000 civilians there. A letter signed by 29 physicians warns that if attacks on medical facilities continue at their present rate, there could

DHAKA: Japan’s foreign minister has warned that ties with China are “significantly deteriorating”, after Chinese vessels repeatedly entered disputed waters in the East China Sea. Fumio Kishida said he had called China’s ambassador to protest against the “incursions”. On

DHAKA: Children in the Syrian city of Aleppo are at ‘grave risk’ of disease unless water supplies are immediately repaired. The United Nations says an immediate pause in fighting is needed to allow the water and electricity networks to be fixed. Some two million people are