DHAKA: Some 175 people have died in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana's capital, Accra, officials say.The fire on Wednesday night started as people in the city were trying to cope with two days of heavy rain, which has left many homeless and without power.The flooding hampered rescue

DHAKA: Chinese hackers are suspected of carrying out a "massive breach" affecting the data of millions of US government workers, US officials said.BBC reported on Friday.The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) confirmed that almost four million current and past employees have been

DHAKA: Nestle India has said it is temporarily taking its bestselling instant noodle brand Maggi off the shelves in India, reports BBC.It comes amid concerns about safety as several states have been testing the product for higher-than-allowed levels of lead.They have also been testing for

DHAKA: Pope Francis has signed off on the miracle needed to make Mother Teresa a saint, giving the Albanian nun who cared for the poor in India one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors just two decades after her death.The Vatican said on Friday that Francis approved a decree

DHAKA: Ten armymen were killed during an ambush in Chandel district of India’s Manipur state Thursday morning.Twelve others were injured in the attack, which is suspected to be carried out by unidentified militant group, police said, reports NDTV.The 6 Dogra Convoy, coming from Motul

DHAKA: An explosion at a petrol station in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, has left at least 70 people dead.The country’s fire brigade said, reports Al Jazeera.Many of the victims had sought shelter at the station due to torrential rain.About a dozen people were taken to hospital after the

DHAKA: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image started appearing for the Google search query ‘Top 10 criminals in India’.Internet giant Google on Wednesday apologized ‘for any confusion or misunderstanding’ caused after the premier’s images started appearing in image search

DHAKA: Relatives of some of the nearly 400 people missing after a cruise ship capsized on China's Yangtze River have staged a protest near the sinking site.Dozens of people broke through police cordons at the river in Jianli, Hubei province, demanding more information.State media say 65

DHAKA: More than 10,000 Islamic State (IS) fighters have been killed since an international coalition began a campaign against the group in Iraq and Syria.The US says, reports the BBC.Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken told France Inter radio the coalition had seen ‘a lot of

DHAKA: The BBC apologized on Wednesday after a journalist erroneously posted a Twitter message saying Britain’s Queen Elizabeth had been taken to hospital after falling ill.The 89-year-old monarch, who will become the country’s longest serving sovereign in September, had in fact

DHAKA: India on Wednesday tested packets nationwide of Nestle India’s instant noodles after high lead levels were found in batches in the country’s north amid a mounting food-safety scare.An official said, reports The Straits Times.Food and consumer affairs ministry official G

DHAKA: The United States has called on Myanmar’s government to treat minority Rohingya Muslims as citizens to solve the root cause of the migrant crisis in Southeast Asia.On Wednesday, US Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard also urged all of Myanmar’s leaders to speak up on

DHAKA: A senior Thai army officer has turned himself in over his alleged involvement in the south-east Asia human trafficking disaster, marking the first arrest of a military official since the investigation started in May.Lieutenant General Manas Kongpaen, a senior adviser to the Thai

DHAKA: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has seized more territory from Syrian rebels in Aleppo province near the border with Turkey.The advance by the armed group on Tuesday threatens to cut off supply lines used by Syrian rebel factions fighting both ISIL and the

DHAKA: Eighteen people are now confirmed to have died and 14 have been rescued from capsized ship in the Yangtze River of China.The Eastern Star, with 456 mostly elderly people on board, overturned in bad weather on Monday night.Hopes are fading of any more survivors being found inside a

DHAKA: Irwin Rose, a biochemist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a way that cells destroy unwanted proteins ‘a key for developing new cancer therapies ‘ has died.He was 88.Janet Wilson of the University of California, Irvine “where Rose was a

DHAKA: At least 50 people were killed in bomb blast at a busy market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday.There was no immediate claim of responsibility for explosion in the Gamboru cattle market, but there have been repeated attacks by the armed group Boko Haram in

DHAKA: Former security contractor Edward Snowden won a Norwegian prize for freedom of expression Tuesday and received yet another invitation to leave his exile and receive the award in person.The Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression said the 31-year old fugitive had

DHAKA: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in for another five-year term after a landslide victory in April’s elections extended his quarter-century rule over the North African nation.‘I will be president to all Sudanese people, whether they voted for me or they boycotted

DHAKA: Family members of some of the hundreds of passengers aboard a capsized Chinese cruise boat scuffled with officials in Shanghai on Tuesday, angry that they were not being told what happened to the vessel and their loved ones.About 60 people, many of them relatives of tourists on the