DHAKA: A huge fire has engulfed a 63-storey hotel in central Dubai ahead of a New Year's Eve firework display.Despite the blaze at the Address hotel, the display at the nearby Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, started as planned at midnight, reports the BBC.Officials say

DHAKA: The year 2015 witnesses a good number of major attacks in different parts of the globe. Some of them have been uphold for our readers.Charlie Hebdo attack:On January 7, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly

DHAKA: The world has begun celebrating the start of a New Year, with revelers in Australia and New Zealand some of the first to usher in 2016.Crowds counted down the last seconds of 2015 at Auckland’s Sky Tower, which hosted a laser show and fireworks display.Up to 25,000 people had

DHAKA: Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is ready to negotiate with Boko Haram for the release of more than 200 girls kidnapped in April last year.In a televised press conference on Wednesday, Buhari said that if the armed group could identify a credible leadership then

DHAKA: The Obama administration is considering fresh punishments for Iran over its violation of international laws with respect to its ballistic missile activity.A senior Obama administration official confirmed to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday night.Since brokering a landmark agreement

DHAKA: Pakistan and Afghanistan have established a hotline between their respective military commanders to reduce frequent cross-border tensions.Pakistan's military spokesman says the line has just been used for the first time as the two countries work to improve co-ordination along the

DHAKA: The US space agency NASA has warned that the effects of the current El Nino weather phenomenon could be as bad as those of 1998, the strongest on record.El Nino in that year played havoc with world weather systems and was blamed for several extreme weather events, reports the

DHAKA: A suspected suicide attack at a government office in north-west Pakistan has killed at least 26 people, police say.The bomb went off outside the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) office in the town of Mardan on Tuesday, reports the BBC.A faction of the Pakistani

DHAKA: A top aide to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has died in a car crash, state news agency KCNA has said.Kim Yang-gon, 73, was a secretary of the ruling Workers' Party and was in charge of ties with South Korea.He was part of a high-level delegation from North Korea that helped

DHAKA: The US says Iran has taken a “significant step” towards meeting its nuclear commitments, by sending a large quantity of uranium abroad.Secretary of State John Kerry spoke after Iran dispatched a shipment of more than 11 tonnes of low-enriched uranium to Russia, reports the

DHAKA: Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi has said Islamic State (IS) will be ousted from the country, after government forces recaptured the city of Ramadi.In a televised address, Abadi vowed to retake Iraq’s second city of Mosul, saying it would be “the fatal and final blow” to IS, reports

DHAKA: The Palestine leadership is expected to meet in the coming days to discuss the future of its relations with Israel.PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said on Sunday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Erekat said that he expected the meeting to take place before the end of this year to

DHAKA: China has passed controversial new anti-terrorism laws, saying they are needed to combat growing threats.The new laws, passed on Sunday by China’s legislature, create a new anti-terror agency and security forces with significant powers.Critics say the laws are too broad and can

DHAKA: Iraqi forces have retaken a former government compound in Ramadi from where Islamic State (IS) group militants have been resisting an army offensive, the military has said.The complex was "under complete control" and there was no sign of IS fighters, a spokesman said, reports the

DHAKA: Nasser al-Bahri - Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard - has died after a long illness, medical sources in Yemen said.They said Bahri, a Yemeni national, passed away on Saturday in a hospital in the southern city of Mukalla. He is believed to have been in his 40s, reports the

RIYADH: A Bangladesh national was killed in a road accident in Jeddah of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Sunday midnight (Bangladesh Time).The deceased was identified as Jamal Uddin, hailed from Astogram upazila of Kishoreganj. He had been living in Saudi Arabia for an era. He was

DHAKA: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke at the opening of the 29th International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran on Sunday morning calling for unity between Islamic nations.Rouhani defined the theme of the conference, ‘The Muslim World’s Current Crises’, to be the lack of

DHAKA: The owner of a gypsum mine in China’s eastern Shandong province has killed himself, as rescuers try to reach 17 miners who have been trapped for two days.China state media report, says the BBC.One person died and four miners escaped when the mine collapsed on Friday.Since then,

DHAKA: The death of a prominent Syrian rebel leader is being seen as a major blow to the tenuous peace process, with the opposition’s interim leader warning that other commanders could also be targeted for assassinations.Zahran Alloush, the leader of the Jaysh al-Islam group, was killed

DHAKA: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the secretive leader of the Islamic State group, called for an uprising in Saudi Arabia and pledged to attack Israel, in an audio recording released Saturday and attributed to him.The 24-minute recording would be Baghdadi's first in seven months, during which