DHAKA: A Taliban suicide bomb hit a European Union police vehicle in Kabul on Monday, killing at least one passer-by but not injuring any passengers, officials said, days after the Nato combat mission ended in Afghanistan.The blast, which was heard across the city, was the first major

DHAKA: Afghan president Ashraf Ghani has said America’s two-year deadline for pulling out the last of its troops may need to be ‘re-examined’.US president Barack Obama is committed to withdrawing all US soldiers by the end of 2016, as Afghanistan looks after its own security.But

DHAKA: Pope Francis has named 20 new cardinals, including churchmen from Tonga, Ethiopia and Myanmar. Fifteen of the new appointees are under 80, making them eligible to enter a conclave to elect the Pope’s successor. Pope Francis said the appointment of cardinals from 14 countries

DHAKA: At least five people, including some football players were killed and 11 injured today in a bomb attack in Pakistan’s restive north western tribal region during a match on Sunday. A bomb exploded at a playground in Kadda Bazaar area of Kalya, the main town of Orakzai district,

DHAKA: The militant group Boko Haram has seized a town and key multinational military base in north-eastern Nigeria. The officials and eyewitnesses said this which reports the BBC. A senator in Borno state said troops had abandoned the base in the town of Baga after it was attacked on

DHAKA: Intelligence agencies have sounded a high alert after receiving inputs that a Delhi-Kabul flight may be hijacked by terrorists.The input is quite specific and also mentions that an Air India flight could be targeted again.IGI airport has been alerted and stringent checks of even

DHAKA: She was a living miracle, but something 71-year-old Larry Wilkins never expected to see: a bleeding and shoeless young girl - the lone survivor of a plane crash that killed four of her family members - standing on the doorstep of his Kentucky home, begging for help.“She was

DHAKA: Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government has authorised the building of the first church in the country since the end of the Ottoman empire in 1923, media has learned.The church is for the country’s tiny Syriac community and will be built in the Istanbul suburb of Yesilkoy on the

DHAKA: Five men have been arrested in India charged with kidnapping and repeatedly raping a Japanese student.Police in the eastern city of Calcutta say the assaults took place over a period of more than a month from 23 November and in at least two locations.They say an organised gang

KOLKATA: Maitree Express trains will run thrice a week between Dhaka and Kolkata from Sunday. Sources of India’s Eastern Railway authorities confirmed the matter to banglanews.   The 13107 Maitree Express will leave Dhaka every Friday while 13108 Maitree Express will start from

DHAKA: Two large metal objects were found in the search for the AirAsia airliner in the Java Sea, according to the head of Indonesia's Search and Rescue Agency, Bambang Soelistyo.  The objects were discovered using a metal detection system aboard an Indonesian ship, reports CNN.com. 

DHAKA: The Palestinian ambassador to the UN has formally submitted Palestine's application to join the International Criminal Court to the UN secretary-general. The Palestinians want to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel and challenge Israeli settlement building, reports

DHAKA: The search for clues into where AirAsia Flight QZ8501 went into the sea continued Saturday morning, amid news that oil slicks had been spotted in the search zone. The USS Sampson was one of the ships in the Java Sea looking for debris and bodies, the U.S. Navy said. On Friday,

DHAKA: To scuba divers and tourists, Belize's famous "Blue Hole" underwater cave is a wonder, one of the "10 most amazing places on Earth," according to the Discovery Channel. To scientists, it's something more: evidence of the drought that is suspected to have led to the demise of the

DHAKA: The US has imposed new sanctions on North Korea in response to a cyber-attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment. President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday allowing sanctions on three North Korean organisations and 10 individuals. The White House said the move

DHAKA:  A fishing boat from Pakistan with four people on board went up in flames off the Gujarat coast in what appeared to be an attempt to evade investigation by the Indian Navy on New Year’s Eve, reports ndtv.So far, no survivors have been found from the vessel which set sail from

DHAKA: Chinese assistant foreign minister Zhang Kunsheng has been removed from his position and is being probed for “violating discipline”, reports BBC.Quoting “State media” of China, BBC said, “Zhang as the highest-ranking diplomat to be targeted in the anti-corruption

DHAKA: A cargo vessel carrying hundreds of migrants is being towed to Italy after it was abandoned by smugglers and left drifting without a crew in the second such case in just a few days.Italian Coast Guard Commander Filippo Marini said on Friday that after several hours of

DHAKA: An uncrewed merchant ship carrying 450 migrants has lost power as it headed towards Italy's coast and a helicopter has been sent to lower rescuers on to the vessel, the Italian air force has said.The vessel, said to have been abandoned by the crew, is floating 65km off Capo di

DHAKA: Japan’s birth rate slumped to a record low in 2014, health ministry figures show, dropping to 1,001,000 newborns in 2014 - 9,000 fewer than in 2013.The fall is the fourth in consecutive years and comes as the estimated number of deaths continues to rise, at just under 1.3