DHAKA: The Sri Lankan president says he hopes to set up a domestic inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the country’s civil war within a month. Maithripala Sirisena said UN investigators would not be involved, despite international pressure. He was speaking to the BBC’s

DHAKA: Seven US Marines and four aircrews were missing and presumed dead after their army helicopter crashed during a night training exercise in Florida on Wednesday. The military officials said this, reports the Times of India on Thursday. The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter was reported

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has failed to implement resolutions to protect and help civilians in Syria.A report by a group of 21 aid agencies said this which reports the BBC.The agencies - including Save the Children and Oxfam - say it has been the ‘worst year’ for civilians as

DHAKA: After a federal report alleged widespread racial bias in his department, the police chief Thomas Jackson of Ferguson, Missouri has agreed to resign.Ferguson came under investigation after a white police officer killed an unarmed black teenager in August, sparking weeks of

DHAKA: Security forces have raided the Karachi headquarters of Pakistan’s fourth biggest political party, detaining ‘hardcore criminals’ and seizing arms.Col Tahir Mahmood said troops acted on information that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was hiding criminals.Schools and

DHAKA: At least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded as State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has launched a coordinated attack on government-held areas of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi attack on Wednesday.Police and hospital sources in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province said

DHAKA: A suspected female suicide bomber has killed at least 17 people in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s Borno state.The military and hospital sources said the attacked happened on Tuesday, three days after a multiple bomb attack in the city killed more than 50 people, reports the

DHAKA: China is reviving growth of its nuclear power industry with approval of its first new project since Japan’s 2011 Fukushima disaster.A unit of state-owned China General Nuclear Power Corp. said the Cabinet’s planning agency has approved construction of two additional reactors

DHAKA: Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been summoned as an accused along with five others in a case linked to the coal scam that saw mining rights being assigned without transparency to private firms.A special CBI court Wednesday also named Hindalco, its chairman Kumar

A Delhi court on Wednesday summoned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former Coal Secretary P.C. Parakh and industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others as accused in a coal block allocation scam case.Rejecting the CBI's plea for closing the case, Special Judge Bharat Prasahar asked

DHAKA: Myanmar arrested 127 protesters when baton-wielding police dispersed a student rally on Tuesday, as the second crackdown in recent days sparked Western condemnation and fears of a return to the repressive reflexes of the junta era.Two large truckloads of protesters were taken

DHAKA: Colombia is to halt bombing raids against Farc rebels for a month, President Juan Manuel Santos says, in a further sign of progress in the country's peace process. Santos said the move was in recognition of the fact a unilateral ceasefire declared by Farc was holding.But

DHAKA: King Abdullah of Jordan urged Europeans on Tuesday to fight hostility toward Islam that he said was fuelling extremism among Muslims.He also included those drawn from Europe to fight in the Middle East, reports the Jerusalem Post.Addressing the European Parliament in Strasbourg,

DHAKA: Pakistan is to resume executions for all capital offences, after earlier lifting a moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism offences only.All condemned prisoners who have exhausted the appeals process and whose pleas for clemency are rejected, now face execution, officials

DHAKA: US and coalition forces conducted eight air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Iraq during a 24-hour period, while US forces led four air strikes in Syria.The US military said on Tuesday, reports the Jerusalem Post.The Syria strikes, all near Kobani, hit four Islamic State

DHAKA: At a private working lunch for the five most powerful members of the United Nations Security Council, the conversation turned to the question of the next UN secretary-general.A European ambassador reminded colleagues of a General Assembly resolution nearly as old as the 70-year

DHAKA: Around 95 captives have escaped an Islamic State-run prison in northern Syria including about 30 Kurdish fighters.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday said the jailbreak happened in the town of Al Bab, 30 km (20 miles) south of the Turkish

DHAKA: After Helal Uddin, another Bangladeshi has been identified among nine foreign nationals taken hostage by militant group ISIS from Al Ghani Oil Field in Libya on Friday.Bangladesh Embassy in Tripoli confirmed about particulars of the Bangladeshi national named Mohammad Anowar

DHAKA: Student protesters in Myanmar have clashed with riot police in Letpadan, 140km (90 miles) north of Yangon.Several hundred students began trying to break through police lines which prevented them continuing a march south.Police are reported to have hit the students with batons and

DHAKA: Three French sports personalities are among 10 people killed in a helicopter crash in Argentina, the French presidential office confirms.Eight French nationals and their two Argentine pilots all died when two helicopters collided in La Rioja province in the country’s