DHAKA: Following a series of terror strikes in France, the India’s Mumbai Police has blocked hundreds of posts on social media which replicate the controversial cartoons of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, sources reveal.Ever since it became clear that the attacks which began

DHAKA: Hundreds of bodies remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria amid an ongoing attack described by Amnesty International as the "deadliest massacre" by Boko Haram.Mike Omeri, the government spokesman, said fighting continued on Friday for Baga, a town on the border with Chad where

DHAKA: Two sieges in France have been brought to a bloody end, with three gunmen and four hostages killed.Two brothers who killed 12 in an attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine on Wednesday were shot dead as they fled a warehouse north of Paris, firing at police.Shortly afterwards in

DHAKA: At least seven militants were killed inside their hideout on Friday in a high-intensity explosion in Pakistan’s restive tribal region, officials said. The blast occurred in a compound in Sundana Teera area of Khyber, one of the seven tribal districts in the country, where

DHAKA: The Paris prosecutor has denied reports that at least one person had been killed in a shootout preceding a hostage-taking in a town north-east of Paris. Police have cordoned off the town of Dammartin-en-Goele where the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo killings had been identified

DHAKA: Boko Haram fighters are reported to have killed hundreds of people in a renewed assault after capturing a key town and military base in northeast Nigeria at the weekend.The local officials have said that which report the Al Jazeera.The group’s fighters initially captured the

DHAKA: Maithripala Sirisena is expected to be sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president, an opposition spokesman said, after the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa, conceded defeat in a bitterly contested election. "The swearing in will be at 6:00pm local time today at Independence Square" in

DHAKA: Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet have detected pings in their efforts to find the black box recorders, Santoso Sayogo, said an investigator at the National Transportation Safety Committee.Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501

DHAKA: Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday conceded defeat in Sri Lanka’s presidential election.The counting of votes, however, so far showed looks set to be won by opposition challenger Mithripala Sirisena, reports The Guardian.“The president conceded defeat at a meeting with opposition

DHAKA: Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan wed a TV journalist in a simple ceremony at his Islamabad home Thursday, ending years of speculation surrounding the former playboy cricketer widely considered his country’s most eligible man.Imran Khan, who is 62 and the father of two sons

DHAKA: Indonesian search and rescue teams plan to start lifting the crashed AirAsia jet’s tail off the sea bed on Friday, officials said, raising hopes that ‘black box’ recorders can be retrieved to reveal the cause of the disaster.Scores of divers plunged into the Java Sea on

DHAKA: The teenage face of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, 18-year-old Joshua Wong, slammed the authorities Thursday in a court appearance linked to mass protests which brought parts of the city to a standstill for months. Wong was one of 29 activists at the High Court for a

DHAKA: The bullet-riddled body of a kidnapped Pakistan Air Force officer was found in Balochistan province. Media reported on Thursday, says NDTV. The officer was kidnapped along with four others on January 4 from an area between provincial capital Quetta and Zhob district while they

DHAKA: France observed a minute of silence Thursday, broken only by church bells, in honour of the 12 people killed by extremists at a magazine known for publishing cartoons deemed offensive to Islam. At midday (local time), crowds of people stood silently in public squares, schools and

DHAKA: A policewoman was killed and a city employee was seriously hurt on Thursday after a man opened fire with an automatic rifle outside Paris, police said, but no link has yet been established with Wednesday’s deadly attack on a satirical magazine.The gunman is still on the run,

DHAKA: Reports from Syria say that some members of the religious police force set up by the militant group Islamic State (IS) have been kidnapped.Activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they had been ambushed and abducted by unknown gunmen in the eastern city of

DHAKA: A stunned and outraged France began a national day of mourning on Thursday, as security forces desperately hunted two brothers suspected of gunning down 12 people in an Islamist assault on a satirical weekly, the country’s bloodiest attack in half a century.The massacre triggered

DHAKA: Two Saudi men are facing jail after they were convicted of deliberately driving over a stray dog ten times until it was dead - and filming the despicable act of cruelty.In the footage, which quickly went viral on social media, one of the men is seen driving a 4x4 vehicle in an

DHAKA: Sri Lankans have started voting in a tightly fought presidential election in what is expected to be a fierce political battle for current President Mahinda Rajapaksa after a onetime ally suddenly defected from the ruling party to run against him.The November defection by former

DHAKA: The youngest of the three suspects in the deadly Paris attack Wednesday on the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo has surrendered to police in Charleville-Meziere, sources said.“Hamyd Mourad handed himself in to police… on Wednesday at 11:00 pm (2200 GMT) after