DHAKA: Government of city of Charlotte in US state North Carolina has declared state of emergency as continued unrest following police shooting down an unarmed black man. Protests erupted after a black police man shot dead keith Lamont Scott on Tuesday (September 20). One protester

DHAKA: Bus driver of Venezuelan capital Caracas have effectively blocked the city in demand of current economic crisis. Thousands of drivers parked their busses on the road and brought the city to a complete halt for over eight hours, BBC reports. They have demanded a wage bump as

DHAKA: The US army claimed to be working on a new kind of grenade that can either be used as fragmentation or a blast pressure device. This grenade, the first to be introduced in the US army arsenal after 4o years will be able to limit damage in certain circumstances. Picatinny

DHAKA: South Korea and United States will carry out a mock attack on a nuclear facility next month. A South Korean defense ministry official told BBC. However, the officials claimed the testing will no be aiming North Korea, even though, the decision came a mere couple of weeks

DHAKA: United States said that they hold Russia responsible for the deadly attack launched on a Syria aid convoy. The White House has called it an ‘enormous humanitarian tragedy’.   Top US officials have told BBC that two Russian air planes were liable for the deadly attack.

DHAKA: Typhoon Malakas caused widespread disruption across Taiwan as it gave a glancing blow to the island. But the worst of the weather remained offshore as the eye of the storm passed about 130km to the east of Taipei. As Malakas passed, sustained winds at the centre of the storm

DHAKA: The UN has suspended all aid convoys in Syria after its Lorries were attacked by warplanes near Aleppo on Monday (September 20). The convoy had received proper permits, and all warring parties - including Russia and the US - had been notified, a UN spokesman said. BBC

DHAKA: North Korea has carried out a “successful” ground test of a new rocket engine to launch satellites, state media says. Kim Jong-un, the country’s leader, asked scientists and engineers to make preparations for a satellite launch as soon as possible, KCNA reported, says the

DHAKA: New York officials have identified a suspect wanted for questioning over Saturday's blast in the Chelsea area in which 29 people were injured. The man has been identified as Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan. The New York Police Department

DHAKA: At least 18 people were killed and 12 went missing when a boat carrying Muslim pilgrims hit a bridge in Thailand’s Chao Pharaya River. The accident happened Sunday (September 18) near the ancient city of Ayutthaya, a popular tourist attraction. All the victims were Thai

DHAKA: Archeologists have found world’s oldest fish hook till date in a cave of Japanese island Okinawa. The pair of hook, found with other relics, have been dated back to 23,000 and made from sea snail shells. It is thought humans inhabited the island from at least 30,000 years

DHAKA: Russia President Vladimir Putin-backed United Russia party is well ahead in the running parliamentary poll in the country on Monday (September 19). Putin said his party had ‘achieved a very good result’, BBC reports. The nationalist LDPR and the Communist party are behind

DHAKA: Germany’s CDU, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, has suffered historic losses in Berlin state elections. It has been ousted from the state governing coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats, reports the BBC. Meanwhile the right-wing anti-migrant party

DHAKA: Authority has confirmed that the bomb detonated in New York and another found nearby on Sunday (September 18) were both ‘pressure cookers filled with shrapnel’. They were exactly same as of that used in Boston marathon in 2013, reports the BBC. Officials said that both

DHAKA: Several people have been killed in fighting between rival rebel groups in the Central African Republic, the UN mission in the country says. The UN the clashes took place in a village about 350km north of the capital, Bangui, reports the BBC. Aid agencies say up to 10 people

DHAKA: At least 17 soldiers were killed in a terror attack at an army administrative base in India-ruled Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri near the Line of Control Sunday morning, the worst in recent years. All four terrorists have been killed, reports NDTV. The attackers were killed in a

DHAKA: A court in Egypt has ordered a freeze on the assets of five prominent human rights activists and three non-governmental organizations. All are accused of receiving foreign cash in a case stretching back to 2011. If convicted, they could face up to 25 years in prison. A

DHAKA: A group of Central European European Union members known as the Visegrad Four could veto any Brexit deal that would limit people’s right to work in the United Kingdom. Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico made the remarks on Saturday (September 17), BBC reports. Hungary,

DHAKA: Parliamentary election voting has started in Russia amid present president Putin supporter’s dominance. Far Eastern regions were the first to vote in the largest country of the world spanning 11 time zones. Their last parliamentary election was held in 2011 with accusations

DHAKA: The US-led coalition has admitted its planes carried out an attack in eastern Syria that the Russian army said killed at least 62 Syrian troops fighting IS. The US said its planes had halted the attack in Deir al-Zour when informed of the Syrian presence, reports the BBC. A