DHAKA: More than 80 people in Thailand have been exposed to the Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) virus, the health authorities revealed, as the kingdom rushed to stem any panic from its first such case.The deadly disease, which was first identified in Saudi Arabia three years ago,

DHAKA: The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties, reports bbc.comThe report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114

DHAKA: Gunmen have shot dead at least 10 people in a beer distribution centre near the Mexican city of Monterrey and then stole from the bodies.Seven people died at the scene. They were found naked or half-naked. Another three people died on their way to hospital.The attack took place in

DHAKA: Denmark’s opposition parties have beaten the governing coalition after a close general election.The centre-right group led by ex-PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen beat Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt’s centre-left coalition, although her party is the largest.Thorning-Schmidt has

DHAKA: Days after Nestle's popular noodles Maggi being pulled out of the market, concerned authorities have found an innovative way to use it. Maggi noodles is now being used as an alternative fuel in India's cement plants.Tonnes of Maggi packets are being incinerated at the ACC cement

DHAKA: Sahara chief Subrata Roy will have to remain in jail as he failed to get bank guarantee of Rs 5,000 crore. The Supreme Court on Friday reiterated that Roy’s release is subject to furnishing Rs 5,000 crore in cash and Rs 5,000 crore in bank guarantee, reports the NDTV.Roy failed

DHAKA: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered that executions be temporarily suspended during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.Ramadan began on Friday in Pakistan, and will continue for between 29 and 30 days, depending on the sighting of the moon, reports the Aljazeera.The

DHAKA: At least 10 people have been killed and several others were injured when a fire that broke out in a hotel in northern India.Police said the fire broke out just before 05:00 local time (23:30GMT) on Friday in a restaurant and spread to the hotel next door in Pratapgarh town in Uttar

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended birthday greetings to Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who turned 45 Friday, reports NDTV.At 9:04 am Friday, Modi tweeted: ‘Wishing the Congress Vice President, Shri Rahul Gandhi a Happy Birthday. I pray for his good health &

DHAKA:  The death toll in the hooch tragedy in Mumbai has gone up to 33 even as 10 victims continue to be critical, police said today.While 13 people died last night in the tragedy that struck on Wednesday, the casualty figure rose to 33 today,said Mumbai Police spokesperson Dhananjay

DHAKA: Thailand has confirmed its first case of MERS, representing a further spread of the deadly respiratory disease from the Middle East to eastern Asia, Thai Public Health Minister Rajata Rajatanavin said Thursday.A man was diagnosed with MERS after he traveled to Thailand from a

DHAKA: Pope Francis on Thursday issued a global plea for action to prevent ‘extraordinary’ climate change from destroying the planet and said wealthy countries must bear primary responsibility for creating the problem and for solving it.In a radically worded letter addressed to every

DHAKA: South Korea reported three more deaths from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) on Thursday, bringing the number of fatalities to 23 and amplifying fears that authorities do not have the virus outbreak under control after the World Health Organization (WHO) criticized their

DHAKA: Hong Kong’s legislature on Thursday vetoed a China-vetted electoral reform package that had been criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as flawed and undemocratic.Hundreds of Beijing supporters had converged outside government buildings as city legislators

DHAKA: Nine people have died in a shooting at a historic black church in Charleston in the US state of South Carolina.City police chief Gregory Mullen said eight of the victims were killed inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Thursday evening, while another person died

DHAKA: The US will put the image of a woman on an American banknote for the first time in over a century, breaking the lock that white male political heroes have on the greenback.The US Treasury announced Thursday that a yet-unchosen woman, likely “a champion for our inclusive

DHAKA: A Yemeni armed group linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks targeting mosques and the headquarters of country’s dominant Houthi group in Sanaa.Dozens of people are reportedly dead and injured in Wednesday’s

DHAKA: Islamic State said on Thursday it had shot down an Iraqi fighter plane north of the city of Ramadi in Anbar Province.It was not immediately possible to independently confirm the claim made on one of Islamic State’s Twitter accounts, reports the Times of India. A member of an

DHAKA: A tiger that escaped from Tbilisi zoo in a freak flood mauled a man to death in the Georgian capital on Wednesday before being gunned down by police.The interior ministry had initially said the animal was a lion and deployed special forces to hunt down the beast which had been on

DHAKA: The United States may find itself irrelevant in Asia if it continues to drag its feet on free trade and if it fails to find a way to accommodate the rise of China, said Singapore foreign affairs and law minister K. Shanmugam in Washington on Tuesday.Shanmugam, who is at the start