DHAKA: The searing heatwave in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana of India has killed 432 people so far with more deaths being reported as vast swathes of the country reeled under the unrelenting summer heat.There was no respite in sight with the India Meteorological department warning that

DHAKA: Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski has conceded the election to conservative challenger Andrzej Duda following the release of exit polls.They suggested Andrzej Duda had taken the run-off vote by 53% to 47%, reports bbc.comAndrzej Duda had edged Komorowski, who had been the

DHAKA: Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain around Japan’s Parliament in Tokyo on Sunday, protesting the planned construction of a new United States airbase on the southern island of Okinawa.The protesters, who organizers said numbered about 15,000, surrounded the parliament

DHAKA: Ban Taloh is the kind of place where strangers easily stick out.Its most prominent landmark is a one-storey mosque at a quiet junction. Locals make a living tapping rubber and gather by a roadside tea hut for daily gossip, reports stasiareport.com.But it was on the outskirts of

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria fighters have killed at least 400 people in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, most of them women and children, since capturing the city four days ago.Syrian state television said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.It said it was quoting

DHAKA: Myanmar has enacted a population law that rights groups said on Sunday targets persecuted Rohingya Muslims, a minority group at the centre of a migration crisis that has seen thousands flee the country.The new Myanmar legislation would allow regional governments to introduce family

DHAKA: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea in the early hours of Sunday, US geologists said, but there were no warnings it had triggered a tsunami.The quake hit around 58 kilometres (36 miles) southwest of Taron, Papua New Guinea at a depth of 50 kilometres at around

DHAKA: Taliban insurgents attacked police checkpoints Sunday in volatile southern Afghanistan, killing at least 10 officers in the ongoing assault.Authorities said, reports The Times of India.Mohammad Ismail Hotaki, the director of Helmand province’s Joint Coordination Office, said that

DHAKA: Singapore foreign minister K Shanmugam called on Asean to play a more active role in dealing with the problem, adding that the East Asia Summit (EAS) is a good platform to do so.This comes after Malaysia and Indonesia offered, on Wednesday, to provide temporary shelter to the

DHAKA: A mass grave believed to contain nearly 100 Rohingya migrants, has been found in Padang Besar.According to sources, police commando and forensic teams from Bukit Aman arrived at the scene on Friday evening.Although there is no confirmation of the exact location of the grave,

DHAKA: Ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi and several secular figures behind Egypt’s 2011 uprising went on trial on Saturday, as the authorities kept a crackdown on all forms of dissent.The trial for ‘insulting the judiciary’ is the fifth for Mursi, who was sentenced to death

DHAKA: United Nations chief Ban Ki Moon said on Saturday that saving the lives of migrants stranded at sea in South-east Asia should be a ‘top priority’ as the region battles with an exodus of boat people fleeing persecution and poverty.The UN Secretary-General said he hoped regional

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama signed into law Friday legislation that gives Congress the right to review any potentially block any final nuclear deal between Iran and international negotiators.In recent weeks the US House of Representatives and the Senate passed the Iran Nuclear Review

DHAKA: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday pledged US$453 million in aid to Pacific island nations to help them combat climate change and natural disasters.Abe made the pledge as leaders of 14 Pacific island nations gathered for a two-day meeting that began on Friday in Iwaki,

DHAKA: A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early Saturday.US geologists said the third major tremor to hit in three days, but there were no initial reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued, reports the Times of India.The quake hit at a depth of 10

DHAKA: At least 43 people were killed during clashes between armed civilians and security forces in western Mexico, a region torn by drug cartel violence in Michoacan of Mexico.The shootout took place on Friday in the municipality of Tanhuato, in the state of Michoacan, and the death toll

DHAKA: AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa will be sworn in as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for the fifth time at 11am on Saturday.After seven long months, Jayalalithaa on Friday stepped out of her house to floral showers and led a victory march to Raj Bhavan to meet governor K Rosaiah and

DHAKA: The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind a suicide bombing on a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 21 people.The attack in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province is the first to be claimed by the Saudi branch of IS, which was formally established last November.The

DHAKA: A suicide bomber has set off an explosion during weekly prayers at a Shia mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia leaving at least 19 dead, the interior ministry spokesman said in a statement.“It has been established that an individual detonated a bomb he was wearing under his clothes

DHAKA: At least 10 people have been killed and 70 others injured in a suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.A physician of emergency room at Qatif Central Hospital told the BBC that some were very critically injured.Witnesses reported a huge blast at the