DHAKA: At least 44 people were killed and 100 others injured as a heavy storm with rain and hail swept through northern and north-eastern districts of Bihar on Tuesday night.The storm also destroyed standing crops and property worth several crores of rupees, reports the Times of

DHAKA: Southern Chile’s Calbuco volcano has erupted for the first time in more than four decades, sending a thick plume of ash and smoke several kilometres into the sky.The local television images showed that reports the Aljazeera.Chile’s Onemi emergency office declared a red alert

DHAKA: EU leaders are due to hold an emergency summit on ways to stem the number of migrants risking the perilous journey across the Mediterranean.BBC Europe editor Katya Adler says draft proposals include a push for a military mandate to destroy boats used by people traffickers.More than

DHAKA: A farmer hanged himself in front of hundreds of protesters gathered in the centre of the Indian capital on Wednesday to rally against the government’s contentious reform of land purchasing laws.Television footage of the protest close to the nation's parliament showed the farmer

DHAKA: Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday launched one of his strongest attacks yet against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria extremists, saying the group was a ‘virus’ working to destroy the Muslim community.Ankara has been repeatedly criticized in recent months

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of Ethiopians marched through the capital Wednesday in a government-organized rally condemning the murder of 20 Ethiopian Christians by Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria militants in Libya.‘Our brothers were murdered, the government must do something,’

DHAKA: The Afghan Taliban announced Wednesday they will launch their annual ‘spring offensive’ from April 24, vowing attacks across the country at a time when US-led foreign forces are pulling back from the frontlines.The militants have already stepped up attacks on government and

DHAKA: Just as Pakistan was celebrating the launch of Chinese investments worth $46 billion in the country, the militant organization Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed to have successfully test fired its first indigenously developed missile named as ‘Omar-1’.To justify its

DHAKA: At least 14 Indian pilgrims were killed and 25 others injured on Wednesday when a bus carrying them plunged some 100 meter down from the hilly road at Naubise village in Dhading district, 75-km east of Kathmandu in Nepal.The bus with Indian number plate was carrying around 45

DHAKA: Indonesian president Joko Widodo called on Wednesday for a new global financial order that is open to emerging economic powers and leaves the ‘obsolete ideas’ of Bretton Woods institutions in the past.Widodo’s speech in Jakarta opened a meeting of Asian and African nations to

DHAKA: The number of migrants dying in Mediterranean Sea crossings could hit 30,000 this year if the current rate continues, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says.The deaths in 2015 so far are 30 times higher than the same period last year, reports the BBC.The UN

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Tuesday ordered the Saudi Arabian National Guard to take part in Riyadh's campaign against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen.SANG is widely regarded as the kingdom’s best equipped military ground force,Military operations in the campaign have so

DHAKA: Iran’s deputy foreign minister said he was optimistic that a ceasefire in the Yemen conflict would be announced later on Tuesday.The Iranian Tasnim news agency reported, says The Straits Times.Iran has consistently called for a halt to Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen, but

DHAKA: An Egyptian court has sentenced former president Mohammed Mursi to 20 years in jail for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters during his rule.It is the first verdict he has received since his ousting and is one of several trials he faces.Mursi was deposed by the army in

DHAKA: Japan’s state-of-the-art maglev train set a world speed record Tuesday in a test run near Mount Fuji, clocking more than 600 kilometers an hour.The seven-car maglev, short for ‘magnetic levitation’, train, hit a top speed of 603 kilometers an hour, and managed nearly 11

DHAKA: South Korean prime minister Lee Wan Koo was left in political limbo on Tuesday after offering to resign over a scandal involving bribery allegations against senior members of president Park Geun Hye’s administration.Park is currently on a trip to Latin America and a presidential

DHAKA: The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it had received a distress call from a sinking boat in the Mediterranean Sea carrying more than 300 people, with at least 20 reported dead.The news came as European Union ministers were due to meet to urgently discuss Sunday's

DHAKA: New distress calls have been received from migrant boats in the Mediterranean, as EU ministers met in Luxembourg to discuss the crisis.Italy and Malta said they were working on rescues of at least two boats in distress with hundreds on board, reports the BBC.The EU is under

DHAKA: The Indonesian embassy in Yemen was heavily damaged, while its two diplomats and one citizen were injured, in explosions that followed an air strike by Saudi-led coalition warplanes on a missile depot in the rebel-held Yemeni capital of Sana’a.At least 15 people were dead and

DHAKA: Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini is set to urge restraint after a wave of violence against migrants in South Africa.He has been accused of fuelling the attacks which have killed at least seven people after saying foreigners should ‘go back to their countries’.More than 300 people