DHAKA: Around 40 migrants died when an inflatable boat carrying more than 100 people sank off the coast of Italy.Save the Children quoted survivors as saying on Tuesday, reports The Straits TImes.‘They said there were 137 people aboard an inflatable boat that deflated or exploded - it

DHAKA: Billionaire Wang Jianlin has surpassed Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Li Ka Shing and Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma to become the wealthiest man in Asia after Wanda Group’s stock soared in Hong Kong Stock Exchange.He had a fortune worth US$33.7 billion as of Friday, according to

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry made a surprise trip to Somalia on Tuesday, officials said.He has become the highest-level US official ever to visit the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.The top US diplomat was spending just a few hours in the capital, Mogadishu, and was not

DHAKA: Rescue workers from different nations have started leaving Nepal as government urged foreign rescue workers to return home.Since the April 25 earthquake, 4,050 rescue workers from 34 different nations reached to Nepal to help in rescue operations, provide emergency medical care and

DHAKA: International police Interpol on Monday issued a global alert over an illicit and potentially lethal drug used as a dieting and body-building aid.The Orange Notice warning about 2.4-dinitrophenol (DNP), which is also used as a raw material for explosives, was issued after one woman

DHAKA: Indonesia will stop sending new domestic workers to 21 middle eastern countries, reports said Tuesday, after the recent execution of two Indonesian women in Saudi Arabia angered Jakarta.The ban affects countries including Saudi Arabia - a major destination for Indonesian maids -

DHAKA: The name of the Princess of Cambridge has finally been revealed to the world as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana.In a touching tribute, the little girl, who was born on Saturday, has been named in honor of her grandfather, her grandmother and her great-grandmother, reports

DHAKA: India’s defense minister said Monday that final negotiations to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France would start this month and end as soon as possible, after leaders of the two nations announced the deal last month.On the eve of a visit by his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le

DHAKA: Nepal has asked foreign countries to wrap up search and rescue operations nine days after a devastating earthquake killed more than 7,200 people, now there is no hope of finding people alive in the rubble.Dozens of countries sent teams to look for survivors after the Himalayan

DHAKA: Thailand’s police have arrested a man they believe is the key figure behind a brutal human trafficking network that ran a jungle camp where dozens of bodies have been found.Soe Naing, widely known as Anwar, was detained on Wednesday as the authorities closed in on a camp near the

DHAKA: Two gunmen opened fire at an anti-Islam art show featuring depictions of the Prophet Mohammad in Garland, Texas, near Dallas on Sunday.They were later shot dead by police at the scene, a local CBS television affiliate and other local media reported, citing Garland police.A guard

DHAKA: Nearly 5,800 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya and 10 bodies were recovered in less than 48 hours, Italy’s coast guard said, in one of the biggest rescue operations this year.Two weeks after nearly 900 boat people drowned in the worst Mediterranean shipwreck

DHAKA: The United States city of Baltimore is attempting to return to normalcy, lifting a citywide curfew and withdrawing the National Guard following violence over the death in police custody of Freddie Gray, a young black man.Six days after the death of Gray, 25, sparked riots,

DHAKA: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 hit the near the New Zealand South Island resort towns of Queenstown and Wanaka.The US Geological Survey said on Monday, reports the Jerusalem Post.The quake was centered 59 km (36 miles) north of Queenstown at a depth of 10 km (six miles)

DHAKA: At least eight Assam Rifles personnel have been killed and six others injured in an ambush by suspected NSCN (K) militants in Mon district of Nagaland on Sunday afternoon. Four other jawans of the paramilitary force are reported missing, reports the Times of India.A security source

DHAKA: Rescuers have pulled a 101-year-old man alive from his ruined home a week after Nepal’s earthquake, even as the government warned on Sunday that toll, already exceeding 7,200, would climb ‘much higher’.Trapped since April 25 when the quake struck, Funchu Tamang was rescued

DHAKA: A 101-year-old man was pulled alive from the rubble of his house in Nepal seven days after it collapsed in a deadly earthquake.Police said Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The man was rescued on Saturday and is now in hospital, according to Arun Kumar Singh, a local police

DHAKA: Dozens of gunmen from criminal gangs kidnapped seven Pakistani police from a checkpoint in the normally peaceful province of Punjab on Sunday.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.The kidnapping, and further fighting between insurgents and the military in the northwest of the

DHAKA: At least 10 Bangladeshis were among the dead, along with at least 30 Rohingya, in remote jungle near the site of a mass grave in Songkhla province of Thailand, where over 800 refugees were being held in several camps.Thailand-based English daily The Bangkok Post reported on Sunday,

DHAKA: The Saudi-led coalition battling an air campaign against Yemeni rebels has been using United States-supplied cluster bombs.Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Sunday, warning of the long-term dangers to civilians, reports The Straits Times.The widely banned munitions