DHAKA: Six people, including three civilians and three army soldiers, were killed in a fierce gunbattle between the security forces and militants near the international border in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday.Police said, reports The Times of India.Militants dressed in army uniforms

DHAKA: Hong Kong student leader Joshua Wong was banned from a large area in Mong Kok as a condition of bail on Thursday after he was arrested during scuffles with police as they cleared one of the largest protest sites that have choked the city for weeks.Wong and activist lawmaker

DHAKA: Greek labour unions staged a 24-hour strike on Thursday that cancelled hundreds of flights, shut public offices and severely disrupted local transport, in the first major industrial action to cripple the austerity-weary country in months.Private sector union GSEE and its

DHAKA: India’s environment court has slammed the government over the capital’s horrendous air pollution, which it said was ‘getting worse’ every day, and ordered a string of measures to bring it down.The National Green Tribunal directed all vehicles older than 15 years be

DHAKA: The younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been referred to as senior party official for the first time in state media. Kim Yo-jong, who is in her mid to late twenties, was identified as a vice-director of a department within the powerful Central Committee, KCNA

DHAKA: An explosion has hit a British embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital, Kabul, causing some injuries. An embassy spokesman says, reports the BBC. The blast was heard across eastern parts of the city on Thursday morning. It is not clear whether the embassy vehicle was the target of

DHAKA: Thailand’s finance minister has told the BBC that elections to bring an end to military rule might not take place until 2016, a year later than planned. Sommai Phasee said he had discussed the date with prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led the coup which overthrew the

DHAKA: A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits the territories of 150km north-west of Kota Ternate city in North Maluku province in Indonesia.The jolt is recorded in the area at 20:33pm local time.The US Geological Survey publishes the report on Wednesday.But they did not mention any

DHAKA: Egypt reopened the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on Wednesday for the first time since its closure in late October after a bombing in the Sinai Peninsula.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.The crossing, which is the only access point to the Palestinian territory not

DHAKA: Pope Francis called on European countries to help immigrants fleeing from the Middle East and Africa not to allow the Mediterranean Sea to become a huge cemetery.Channel 10, reports, The Jerusalem Post says.In a speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Francis added

DHAKA: As eight South Asian leaders meet in Kathmandu for a regional summit, the focus is on the tension between India and Pakistan. At the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) meeting, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is due to hold two-way talks with every

DHAKA: At least 63 people, half of them civilians, were killed when Syrian war planes struck the northeastern city of Raqqa on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war in Syria said this, reports the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. Syrian government

DHAKA: Yemeni security forces have freed eight hostages, including six Yemenis, a Saudi and an Ethiopian, in a raid. Seven Al-Qaeda kidnappers were also killed in the raid, the country’s supreme security committee said. The committee said in a statement that a member of the Yemeni

DHAKA: At least 24 miners have been killed and 54 injured by an underground fire at a mine in China's north-eastern Liaoning province. The mine is operated by the state-owned Liaoning Fuxin Coal Corporation, said the Xinhua.  The cause of the fire is not immediately clear, but the

DHAKA: Police in Hong Kong say more than 80 people have been arrested overnight in clashes with pro-democracy protesters. The unrest came as the authorities, acting on a court order, began dismantling a protest camp in the Mong Kok commercial district. The removal began peacefully on

DHAKA: The US state of Missouri has ordered more troops to the Ferguson area to quell unrest after a policeman was cleared over Michael Brown's killing. State governor Jay Nixon said 2,200 National Guard would be deployed in and around the St Louis suburb on Tuesday, reports BBC.

DHAKA: At least 19 militants were killed and eight others were injured on Tuesday in air strikes in Dattakhel area of Pakistan’s North Waziristan.According to official sources, the latest airstrikes come as military operation Zarb-i-Azb is under way in the tribal region, reports the

DHAKA: A teenage Pakistani girl was shot dead by her uncle following a row over loud music in the Kallar Kahar valley in Punjab province’s Chakwal district of Pakistan.The Pakistani police said on Tuesday which reports the Times of India.The incident happened on Saturday in the area

DHAKA: Voters are going to the polls in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP is trying to win power for the first time.More than a million people are eligible to vote in the first of five phases in staggered elections for the Muslim-majority

DHAKA: At least 13 people were killed and several were feared trapped after an eight-story building collapsed in the western Cairo suburb of Matariya.The Egyptian police officials said this which reports Aljazeera.The officials said that eight residents of the building were also injured