DHAKA: North Korean military’s ‘cyber army’ has boosted its numbers to 6,000 troops, the South Korean defence ministry said on Tuesday, double Seoul’s estimate for the force in 2013, and is working to cause ‘physical and psychological paralysis’ in the South.The new

DHAKA: About 51.2 million people have been displaced since World War II, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said on January 6, noting the current figures for displaced people are the highest they have ever been.Speaking at the 7th Ambassadors Conference, Guterres was

DHAKA: Pakistan Rangers continued mortar shelling and firing at Border Security Force (BSF) positions in Kathua and Samba districts throughout Monday night.A BSF jawan was killed and a woman critically injured on Monday in mortar shelling by Pakistan on the international border in

DHAKA: Afghan president Ashraf Ghani marked his first 100 days in power on Tuesday, still struggling to form a government as a new political stalemate threatens to fuel the Taliban insurgency.The deadlock over senior cabinet positions has underlined the challenges of running a

DHAKA: An Indonesian naval patrol vessel found what the captain said could be the tail of a missing Indonesia AirAsia plane, the section where the crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are located.‘We found what has a high probability of being the tail of the plane,’

KOLKATA: India’s West Bengal chief minister (CM) Mamata Banerjee has been invited to visit Bangladesh. Bangladesh deputy high commissioner in Kolkata, Zokey Ahad, on Monday, handed over the invitation letter sent by the country’s foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali, Sources told

DHAKA: Islamist gunmen killed at least seven Malian soldiers near the Mauritanian border, a local mayor said in Monday, in a dawn raid that illustrated continuing volatility two years after France helped take back territory seized by al-Qaida-linked militants. A spokesman for the Malian

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,