DHAKA: Heavy monsoon rains in India have killed more than 100 people in the past week and forced tens of thousands of people to take shelter in relief camps.India’s home ministry has said, reports the BBC.A cyclone struck the state of West Bengal, killing 48 people in flood-related

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama is due to unveil what he called "the biggest, most important step we have ever taken" in tackling climate change.The aim of the revised Clean Power Plan is to cut greenhouse gas emissions from US power stations by nearly a third within 15 years, BBC

DHAKA: The Russian defence ministry has grounded its fleet of Mi-28 attack helicopters after a fatal accident at an air show on Sunday.One pilot died and another jumped clear as the helicopter crashed during an aerobatic display by the elite Berkut squadron in the Ryazan region, about

DHAKA: The aftermath of cyclone ‘Komen’ has hit large parts of India’s West Bengal, Odisha and Manipur states, causing floods and landslides in which over 60 people have died so far.The depression has reached Gangetic West Bengal. Rain will continue but intensity likely to be less.

DHAKA: Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas ordered security forces to prevent any revenge attacks or mass confrontations against Israel.Arab newspaper Rai al-Youm says, reports The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.According to the report, the Palestine security forces were instructed to prevent

DHAKA: Thousands of Israelis have held protests against hate crimes, as the parents and brother of a Palestinian baby burned to death by suspected Jewish settlers continued to fight for their lives in hospital.The firebombing of the family’s home in the occupied West Bank that killed

DHAKA: Two Turkish security troops have been killed and 24 wounded in a suicide attack by Kurdish PKK militants.The regional governor’s office says, reports the BBC.A tractor laden with explosives was driven at a military police station, reports by Turkish media say.The attack happened

DHAKA: 20 people have died in landslide caused by heavy rain in the Joumol village in Chandel district of Manipur in India, NDTV reported."Rescue teams are being sent to Juomol at the earliest and will reach by tomorrow morning because of heavy rains and landslides. The government is

DHAKA: At least 20 people have been killed in a landslide as monsoon rains continue to batter parts of South-East Asia.The landslip in the eastern Indian state of Manipur buried a whole village, Indian media reported.In neighboring Myanmar, four western regions have been declared disaster

DHAKA: Iraq’s Kurdish regional government has called on the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK) to ‘withdraw’ from its territory to prevent civilian deaths, amid a campaign of Turkish airstrikes targeting the group.A statement issued on Saturday, Kurdish President Massoud Barzani said

DHAKA: The new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, has called for unity in an audio message, saying that the group will continue fighting.Mullah Mansour was named as the new leader on Thursday, after the death of former head Mullah Omar was confirmed.But a Taliban

DHAKA: At least four Saudi soldiers have been killed and eight others wounded when shells fired from Yemen hit a region south of the kingdom.The government said, reports Al Jazeera.The shelling took place in Dhahran Aljanoub, a governorate in the Saudi border region of Aseer, the state

DHAKA: The Palestine Liberation Organisation has said it holds Israel’s government ‘fully responsible’ for the death of an 18-month-old baby in an arson attack in the occupied West Bank and will lodge a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC).The death of the baby boy

DHAKA: In a delight for skywatchers, the second full moon of July made its appearance on Friday evening. The rare phenomenon - the sighting of second full moon - is referred to as Blue Moon.The first full moon of the month had appeared on July 2. Usually, in a calendar year, only one full

DHAKA: A private jet crashed in southern England on Friday, killing four people on board, a spokesman for Britain's Hampshire police service said.Saudi and British media said the passengers were relatives of deceased al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.A spokeswoman for the British police

DHAKA: India has said that four of its citizens have been kidnapped near the Libyan city of Sirte.India’s foreign minister Sushma Swaraj briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the incident on Friday, according to the online edition of the Times of India, reports Al Jazeera.Vikas

DHAKA: The death toll rose to 27 on Thursday and authorities listed 149 others as injured after a truck lost control and slammed into a religious procession in a central Mexico town.A Public Safety Department official for the state of Zacatecas confirmed the figures and said some of those

DHAKA: An 18-month-old Palestinian boy has burned to death after settlers set fire to his family house in Duma village, south of Nablus city, in the occupied West Bank.The parents of Ali Saad Dawabsheh and his four-year-old brother were also injured in the attack, sources told Al Jazeera

DHAKA: If anything unusual happens to you Friday, you'll be right to say it was "once in a blue moon."The July 31 appearance of the month's second full moon will be the first such occurrence since August 2012, CNN reported. Every month has a full moon, but because the lunar cycle and the

DHAKA: It is "very likely" debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion is that of the missing flight MH370, says a top Australian official.Martin Dolan, who heads Australia's search efforts, also said the operation was continuing "in the right place" in the southern part of the