DHAKA: India has successfully launched 20 satellites in a single mission, the most in the history of the country’s ambitious space program. They include satellites belonging to the United States, Canada, Germany and Indonesia. The launch took place from the Sriharikota space

DHAKA: Leading names from both sides of the EU referendum have traded blows in a live TV debate at Wembley Arena on the eve of the final day of campaigning. The BBC’s Great Debate featured almost two hours of questions on immigration, the economy and sovereignty. Scottish Tory

DHAKA: North Korea has test-fired two mid-range ballistic missiles from its eastern coast, says South Korea. The first launch was considered to have failed, travelling about 150km before landing in the sea, BBC reports on Wednesday (June 22). The second, launched hours later, flew

Get ready, Noah. Kentucky’s Bible-themed theme park is set to debut its $100 million life-sized replica of Noah’s Ark this summer. Ark Encounter — a sister attraction to the nearby Creation Museum — released footage of the under-construction boat in landlocked Williamstown

DHAKA: An Egyptian judge has quashed a government decision to hand back two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi announced the return of Tiran and Sanafir islands in April, during a visit by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman. More than 150 people were

DHAKA: Eight school children were killed and 12 others were injured in an accident at Kundapur area of India’s Karnataka on Tuesday (June 21). The incident happened at around 8:00 am when a private bus and school van collided in the area which is 400 km from Bengaluru, reports the

DHAKA: The US Senate has rejected plans to tighten gun controls, including the restriction of weapons sales to people on terrorism watch lists. Four proposals were brought before the Senate after 49 people died in an attack on a gay nightclub in Florida, reports the BBC. But

DHAKA: A British national who tried to grab a police officer’s gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas said he wanted to shoot the US candidate. Michael Steven Sandford, 20, did not enter a plea when he appeared before a judge in Nevada and was remanded in custody until a hearing on

DHAKA: The Guardian will make more than 250 staff redundant as part of an attempt to slash costs by 20pc, but has not hit a target of 100 job cuts in its newsroom. The newspaper’s management said they had accepted 257 applications for voluntary redundancy in a process begun in March,

DHAKA: Iran’s intelligence ministry said Monday it had thwarted a major jihadist plot to carry out bomb attacks in the capital Tehran and other parts of the country. Iran state media reported, says The Telegraph. ‘One of the biggest takfiri-Wahhabi terrorist plots was discovered

DHAKA: The commander of US troops in Europe says Nato cannot rapidly deploy large forces to Eastern Europe in the way that Russia can. Lt-Gen Ben Hodges was speaking to the BBC’s Hardtalk programme during large Nato exercises in north-western Poland. ‘The Russians are able to

DHAKA: The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft has set off from New York to cross the Atlantic, one of the toughest stages of its attempt to fly around the globe using solar energy. The pilot, Bertrand Piccard, will attempt to reach Seville in Spain in about 90 hours. It is the first ever

DHAKA: Conflict and persecution caused global forced displacement to escalate sharply in 2015 reaching the highest level ever recorded and representing immense human suffering. The annual Global Trends report released by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Monday

DHAKA: The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded. The UN refugee agency says, reports the BBC. It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year. This

DHAKA: At least 14 Nepalese security guards have been killed after a suicide bomber hit a minibus in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, along the main road to the eastern city of Jalalabad. The attacker on Monday was on foot, police said, as they reported multiple casualties among the bus

DHAKA: At least three people have been killed and 45 people, including many police officers, were injured in southern Mexico in clashes between protesting teachers and police. The incident took place in the state of Oaxaca, where two high-profile union leaders were arrested last week,

DHAKA: The memory units of both flight recorders from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month are severely damaged. The Egyptian aircraft accident investigation committee sources told this on Sunday (June 19). The memory units of the Cockpit Voice

DHAKA: The anti-establishment Five Star Movement has made big gains in Italy, winning mayoral races in Rome and Turin, early results show. Virginia Raggi will become Rome’s first female leader, in a victory seen as a blow to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his centre-left Democratic

DHAKA: The presumptive Republican candidate in the US presidential election, Donald Trump, has suggested the country should consider using profiling to combat crime. Mr Trump made the remarks when asked if he supported more profiling of Muslims in the US, in the context of last

DHAKA: Crowds are gathering on the Japanese island of Okinawa to protest against the heavy US military presence there. Demonstrators are angry after a former US Marine employed as a civilian worker was arrested over the rape and murder of a local 20-year-old woman. The case has