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

DHAKA: Former Turkish president Suleyman Demirel has died, aged 90, hospital officials say.They say Demirel, who held office in 1993-2000, died early in the morning in Guven Hospital in the capital, Ankara.He had reportedly been treated for a respiratory tract infection, reports the

DHAKA: The India’s Narendra Modi government has given citizenship to around 4,300 Hindus and Sikh migrants from Bangladesh and Pakistan in one year.During his election campaign, Modi had said Hindu migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh would be treated like Indian citizens.There are

DHAKA: In parts of the far western Xinjiang district, Chinese officials have banned Muslim party members, civil servants, students and teachers from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.‘China is increasing its bans and monitoring as Ramadan approaches. The faith of the Uighurs has

DHAKA: Holy month of Ramadan will begin in Saudi Arabia and other Arab and non-Arab counties on Thursday.Elsewhere in the Arab peninsula, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar also announced the beginning of Ramadan on the day, reports english.alarabiya.net.Moreover, Malaysia,

DHAKA: At least 16 people, including 13 children, were killed when Syrian air force jets bombed a town in Deraa province on Tuesday, activists say.Those killed were attending lessons on the Koran in Ghariyah, locals told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring

DHAKA: North Korea says it is facing the worst drought in a century, sparking fears of worsening food shortages.State news agency KCNA said main rice-growing provinces had been badly affected and more than 30% of rice paddies were "parching up", reports bbc.com.Hundreds of thousands of

DHAKA: Reclusive North Korea said on Tuesday it has been hit by the worst drought in a century, compounding chronic food shortages in a country where the United Nations says almost one third of children under five are stunted due to malnourishment.The North’s KCNA news agency said