DHAKA: Indian government on Wednesday announced the prestigious Bharat Ratna, neighboring country's highest civilian honour, for their former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and a freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malaviya.A meeting of the Union Cabinet was convened in New Delhi on

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) militants have shot down a US-led coalition warplane over northern Syria.The activists said this which reposts the BBC.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the aircraft, believed to be from an Arab state, went down near Raqqa.The UK-based group said the

DHAKA: At least 55 people, including 20 children, were killed in a series of coordinated attacks by suspected militants in Assam on Tuesday. Here are 10 developments in this big story:     Men, women and children were shot dead with AK-47 bullets in five attacks within the space of an

DHAKA: Former US President George Bush Senior has been taken to hospital after suffering from a shortness of breath, his spokesman says.Bush, 90, was taken to the Houston Methodist Hospital as a precaution, and "will be held for observation, again as a precaution", said Jim McGrath.Two

DHAKA: A global arms trade treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar business has come into force - a move hailed as "a new chapter" by UN chief Ban Ki-moon. He said he hoped the treaty would help prevent the transfer of weapons to "warlords, human rights abusers, terrorists and criminal

DHAKA: A comedy film about North Korea that had its Christmas Day launch cancelled after a major cyber attack and threats against US cinema-goers is now to get a limited theatrical release, Sony says. The Interview will be shown in some independent US cinemas on Thursday, reports the BBC

DHAKA: At least 10 children have been killed after two schools were hit in a series of air strikes carried out by the Syrian government in Damascus and villages in the Idlib province, sources say. Military jets dropped barrel bombs on a school in the town of Safohan in Idlib province on

DHAKA: Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand assembly polls came out on Tuesday with the PDP emerging as the single-largest party in Jammu and Kashmir and the BJP with its ally the AJSU getting simple majority in Jharkhand.Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP got 28 seats in Jammu and Kashmir with the BJP

DHAKA: At least 20 people were killed Monday when an explosion rocked a bus station in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe, which has recently come under repeated attacks blamed on Boko Haram insurgents, officials said.The incident happened when a homemade bomb planted near a bus

DHAKA: Thirteen Taliban fighters have been killed in a shootout with police forces in the Pakistani city of Karachi, according to the police.A police official has said those killed belonged to the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or Pakistani Taliban, and were in police

DHAKA: Some internet services have been restored in North Korea after an almost unprecedented internet outage, amid a cyber security row with the US. Though there has been no comment from the authorities in Pyongyang, US experts reported the restoration, reports BBC. Some analysts say

DHAKA: Hong Kong property tycoon Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong on Tuesday was locked up for five years and fined HK$500,000 for his part in Hong Kong's biggest ever graft trial. Before sending him to prison Mr Justice Andrew Macrae said there was "absolutely no doubt Mr Kwok is at heart a good

DHAKA: Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre. Six militants have been hanged since Friday amid rising public anger over

DHAKA: President Barack Obama is ‘recklessly’ spreading rumors of a Pyongyang-orchestrated cyber attack of Sony Pictures, North Korea said, as it warns of strikes against the White House, Pentagon and ‘the whole US mainland, that cesspool of terrorism.’Such rhetoric is

DHAKA: Arab Gulf countries have vowed they will not cut oil production or hold an emergency meeting, despite a glut in global supplies and plummeting oil prices.Powerful OPEC members Saudi Arabia and Kuwait said on Sunday they would not cut production even if non-OPEC members reduced

DHAKA: At least 36 flights have been delayed while three have been cancelled as a thick blanket of fog enveloped Delhi. 50 trains have also been delayed while 12 others have been rescheduled in the national capital.The city recorded a maximum temperature of 15 degrees Celsius on Sunday -

DHAKA: South Korea’s nuclear plant operator is to conduct drills testing its ability to withstand a cyber-attack, after a data leak and threats from a hacker.Last week, designs and manuals of plant equipment owned by Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co (KHNP) were put online by an

DHAKA: Tunisia’s Beji Caid Essebsi has claimed victory in the country’s first free presidential election, with exit polls suggesting he won 55.5 percent of the vote.Supporters of the 88-year-old celebrated in the capital Tunis, reports the BBC.Campaigners for his rival, caretaker

DHAKA: Dozens of Houthi rebels have been killed in central Yemen in a suspected revenge attack after at least 40 people from a rival tribe were kidnapped by the Shia group.At least 42 Houthis were killed by Sunni tribesman in Arhab on Sunday, sources told Al-Jazeera.The Houthis, who

DHAKA: A gunman has shot dead two police officers sitting inside a patrol car in New York before killing himself.The head of the New York police said the men had been "targeted for their uniform".The gunman ran into a nearby subway station where he then shot himself, officials say,