DHAKA: Nine kabaddi players from Odisha were killed and 15 others were seriously injured after a mini-truck in which they were travelling fell off a bridge on Saturday evening near Surapalli in Sundargarh district.The incident occurred around 4:30 pm on Saturday when the team from

DHAKA: Austria saw the arrival of at least 10,000 migrants on Saturday, amid bitter rows among EU nations on how to handle the growing crisis.The migrants were initially sent into Hungary by Croatia, which said it was unable to cope with the 20,000 who had arrived since Wednesday.Hungary

DHAKA: Voting is due to begin in Greece's general election with opinion polls indicating a tight race between the left-wing incumbent Syriza party and the conservative New Democracy.The snap election, Greece's fifth in six years, was called after Syriza lost its parliamentary majority in

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has to go but the timing of his departure should be decided through negotiations.Speaking after talks with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in London on Saturday, Kerry called on Russia and Iran

DHAKA: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appeared to try to quell American concerns over the recent signing of a nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic, where hardliners chant ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’.In a preview of an interview set to air Sunday on CBS’s ‘60

DHAKA: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi kept his finance, investment and interior ministers in a new government sworn in on Saturday, state news agency MENA reported, as he tries to rebuild an economy battered by Islamist militant violence.Sisi named former head of the state oil

DHAKA: The African Union says it has suspended Burkina Faso and will impose sanctions on coup leaders if they do not restore the interim government and release its senior officials.The AU statement, issued on Friday, followed a meeting of the Peace and Security Council in Addis Ababa,

DHAKA: Israeli fighter jets have struck two national security bases and an empty field in the Gaza Strip, after rockets were earlier fired into southern Israel from the besieged territory.One air strike targeted a national security base east of the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north of

DHAKA: Hungarian authorities have seized a train bringing refugees into the country from Croatia, disarming 40 police on board and detaining the driver after more than 4,000 refugees arrived across their border.The head of the Hungarian disaster unit has said, reports Al Jazeera.Gyorgy

DHAKA: Japan’s parliament has voted to allow the military to fight overseas for the first time since the end of World War Two 70 years ago.A vote on the new law was delayed for several hours as the opposition tried to stop the measure coming into force, reports the BBC.Outside,

DHAKA: US and Russian defence ministers have held their first talks in more than a year, to discuss the conflict in Syria.The phone call follows signs that Moscow is taking a more active role in the conflict, and American concern over the extent of the plans.Meanwhile, four Russian

DHAKA: Half a million children have fled attacks by the Islamist group Boko Haram over the past five months, the UN children's agency says.Unicef says this brings the total number of displaced children in Nigeria and neighbouring countries to 1.4m, reports BBC.Tens of thousands are

DHAKA: New secret files on legendary freedom fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose were released by the West Bengal government Friday and will now be open to the public.Hidden in government and police lockers for years, 64 classified files with over 12,000 pages will be on display at the

DHAKA: Croatia has closed seven of its eight road border crossings with Serbia following a huge influx of migrants.Officials in Zagreb said they had no choice after more than 10,000 people entered the country a day after Hungary fenced off its border with Serbia.Meanwhile, Slovenia said

DHAKA: Fighters belonging to the Pakistani Taliban have stormed an air force station near Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest, resulting in a firefight with security forces and the deaths of at least 43 people, sources say.ISPR, the Pakistan military's media wing, said at least 21 security

DHAKA: Amid chaotic scenes in Croatia, crowds of migrants briefly broke through riot police lines at the border with Serbia.People waiting for hours in blazing heat at Tavornik grew frustrated, though the situation is quieter now, reports the BBC.Croatia is struggling to deal with at

DHAKA: At least 170 people have been killed after an oil tanker exploded in South Sudan.Officials say, reports the BBC.The tanker had veered off the road in Maridi, Western Equatoria state, and local residents were siphoning off the fuel when the vehicle exploded, they said.At least 50

DHAKA: The military in Burkina Faso has taken to the airwaves to declare it now controls the country, confirming that a coup has taken place - just weeks before national elections.In the announcement aired early on Thursday on national television and radio, the statement said that the

DHAKA: A magnitude 8.3 earthquake has struck off the coast of Chile, killing at least five people and forcing one million to flee their homes.The quake shook buildings late on Wednesday in the capital city of Santiago, about 280km to the south, and flooded some coastal areas under a

DHAKA: Three more persons have died of dengue in Delhi, which takes the number of dead to 14 in what officials call the worst outbreak of the disease in the capital in five years. Over 1,900 people in the city have been affected by dengue. The deaths of a 41-year-old woman and two boys,