DHAKA: A government must not be afraid to make unpopular decisions if it benefits the country in the long run.Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.Datuk Seri Najib said that while policies like the Goods and Services Tax (GST) may not be popular,

DHAKA: The Karnataka high court acquitted on Monday former Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa in a corruption case, clearing the decks for her return to the state's top job.Jayalalithaa had appealed against her conviction in the Rs 66.64-crore disproportionate

DHAKA: A second boat carrying hundreds of migrants, including Bangladesh and Myanmar nationals, were rescued off Indonesia's far west coast, an official said on Monday.Earlier ion Sunday, nearly 600 others reached there in a wooden vessel seeking refuge, said an international news

DHAKA: A powerful typhoon has hit the north-east Philippines, in Cagayan province, killing two people and cutting electricity supplies to many parts of the region.Warnings of flash floods, landslides and storm surges forced thousands of people to higher ground, reports bbc.comNoul is the

DHAKA: The European Commission will make the controversial proposal that EU member countries should take in refugees under an EU quota scheme.The UN estimates that 60,000 people have already tried to cross the Mediterranean this year, reports bbc.com.Migrants are being driven to make the

DHAKA: Thailand’s king Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, has left a Bangkok hospital after a seven-month stay.Crowds lined the streets and cheered as the 87-year-old king was driven from the capital, Bangkok, to the royal palace in the coastal town of Hua

DHAKA: Defense ministers from five European Union (EU) countries are meeting on Sunday for talks on a military campaign to stop human trafficking and reinforce the region’s defenses against the flow of migrants from North Africa.Officials from France, Germany, Poland, Italy and Spain

DHAKA: Pope Francis, who helped broker a historic thaw between the United States and Cuba, held talks with Cuban president Raul Castro on Sunday ahead of the pontiff’s trip to both countries in September.The brother of Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel arrived for a meeting that the

DHAKA: Rescuers Sunday brought ashore 469 migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh after their wooden boat arrived off Aceh in northwest Indonesia.An official said, reports The Straits Times.‘We received a report from fishermen this morning that there were boat people stranded in the waters

DHAKA: Protesters threw bottles, cans and smoke bombs at riot police in central London on Saturday in a demonstration against the re-election of Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.Scuffles broke out when the demonstrators, blaring hooters, banging pots and chanting

DHAKA: The United Nations representative in Yemen has said that the Saudi-led coalition is bombing ‘effectively, trapped civilians’.Civilians in the northern city of Saada are struggling to flee Saudi-led coalition air strikes targeting Houthi rebels, reports and aid workers say,

DHAKA: Several people have been killed in a shooting in the Swiss town of Wuerenlingen, north-west of Zurich, Switzerland police say.Officers came to the scene after gunfire was heard at a residential building overnight, report bbc.com.They found bodies lying both inside and outside the

DHAKA: Russia president Vladimir Putin on Saturday led a huge commemorative WWII march through Red Square as Russia celebrated 70 years since Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.Clutching a portrait of his father Vladimir, who fought in the war, Putin unexpectedly joined a massive column of

DHAKA: Fifty inmates and 12 Iraqi policemen were killed late on Friday as dozens of inmates escaped from a prison holding 300 people charged with acts of terrorism.A security official and a police source said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.It was not clear if any high-profile

DHAKA: Fifty inmates and 12 Iraqi policemen were killed late on Friday as dozens of inmates escaped from a prison holding 300 people charged with acts of terrorism.A security official and a police source said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.It was not clear if any high-profile

DHAKA: Indian Maoist rebels took 250 villagers hostage in restive Chhattisgarh just hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi toured the central state on Saturday.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.Guerillas abducted the villagers late Friday in Sukma district, 80 kilometers away

DHAKA: Nearly 200 migrants have been detained in a single southern Thai province ever since a network of jungle prison camps run by people smugglers was uncovered there.Police said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Spurred by Thai junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha’s calls to end the grim

DHAKA: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after a retrial in Cairo.His sons were given four years each in the same case which centers on the embezzlement of $14m earmarked for renovation of presidential palaces.The

DHAKA: Russia readied for a grandiose Red Square military parade on Saturday to mark 70 years since the victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, but Western leaders were going to stay away due to the Ukraine crisis.New tanks, mammoth nuclear missile systems and some 16,000 troops were

DHAKA: Britain’s Saturday newspapers said Prime Minister David Cameron’s election win was a remarkable triumph of quiet conservatism, but leaves him facing battles to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom and Britain in the European Union.The Conservative centre-right prime minister’s