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

DHAKA: Cradled in her mother’s arms, Britain’s new sleeping princess was welcomed into the outside world Saturday with joyous cheers, a forest of camera phones and a sea of flags.It was both a traditional and very 21st-century moment as Prince William and his wife Kate emerged from

DHAKA: More than 3,400 migrants were rescued at sea Saturday, mainly off Libya, as Europe seeks ways to deal with the flood of people trying to reach its shores following a series of deadly shipwrecks.A total of 3,427 people were picked up during the operation coordinated by the Italian

DHAKA: Several hundred Yazidi captives have been killed in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants west of Mosul.Yazidi and Iraqi officials say, reports the BBC.A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party said 300 captives were killed on Friday in the Tal Afar district near the city.Iraqi

DHAKA: The United Nations has urged Nepal to relax customs controls which it says are holding up deliveries of aid to survivors of last week's earthquake.UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said Nepal had a duty to provide faster customs clearance for relief supplies.Many people are yet to

DHAKA: Nigeria troops have freed some 700 women and children from Boko Haram’s Sambisa forest stronghold over the past week, but uncertainty remained on Saturday over the fate of 219 girls seized from their school in Chibok last year in a kidnapping that sparked global outrage.In the

DHAKA: The remains of 26 migrants thought to be from Myanmar or Bangladesh have been exhumed from a mass grave after Thai police ended their search Saturday, as details emerged of the maltreatment endured at the remote people smugglers’ camp.Thai forensic teams dug out badly decayed

DHAKA: Key infrastructure in war-torn Yemen, including water supplies, health services and telecommunications, are on the verge of breaking down due to a major fuel shortage.A United Nations official said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.‘The services still available in the country

DHAKA: The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a girl, Kensington Palace has announced.The baby, who is fourth in line to the throne, was ‘safely delivered’ at 08:34 BST, the palace said in a statement, reports the BBC.The Duke of Cambridge was present for the birth of the baby,

DHAKA: Prince William’s wife Kate was admitted to hospital on Saturday in the early stages of labor with the couple’s eagerly-awaited second child.Kensington Palace said, reports The Straits Times.‘The Duchess of Cambridge was admitted at 6.00 hours to St Mary’s Hospital,

DHAKA: A Bangladeshi survived in a mass grave that have been discovered in southern Thailand and was being treated at a hospital in nearby Padang Besar.The hospital confirmed the Bangladeshi man had survived and was in a stable condition.Earlier on Friday, about 30 graves, believed to

DHAKA: Nepal on Saturday ruled out the possibility of finding more survivors buried in the rubble from a massive earthquake that killed more than 6,700 people and devastated vast swathes of one of Asia’s poorest countries.One week on from Nepal’s deadliest quake in over 80 years,

DHAKA: An earthquake with magnitude 5.0 occurred near Pokhara, 93 kilometres North West of Kathmandu, capital city of Nepal on Saturday, said the United States Geological Survey.The tremor was 10-kilometer deep that felt at 11:35:46am Bangladesh time, USGS added.The 7.8-magnitude quake

DHAKA: Populations of some of the world's largest wild animals are dwindling, raising the threat of an "empty landscape", say scientists.About 60% of giant herbivores - plant-eaters - including rhinos, elephants and gorillas, are at risk of extinction, according to research.Analysis of 74

DHAKA: Officials are struggling to find 1,000 EU citizens who are unaccounted for in Nepal, six days after an earthquake that killed more than 6,000 people.An EU official said most are thought to have been trekking in the Everest or remote Langtang regions. Many are hoped to be alive but