DHAKA: Torrential downpours triggered a landslide on Indonesia’s main island of Java, killing at least 17 people and leaving nearly 100 others missing, with persistent rain hampering rescue efforts. Officials said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.Hundreds of rescuers were

DHAKA: Pakistan police foiled a major terror attack on Saturday in central Punjab province, killing at least four suspected Taliban militants.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.Heavy weapons and explosives - including four suicide jackets, 12 rockets, 40 hand grenades, 328kg of

DHAKA: The wife of Thailand’s Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, Srirasmi, has resigned her royal position, the palace has announced. A statement said King Bhumibol Adulyadej had accepted Princess Srirasmi’s written request. Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn had asked the government to strip

DHAKA: The suspect behind the pro-Islamic State (IS) Twitter account has been arrested in India’s Bengaluru on Saturday. The arrest came after the Bengaluru Crime Branch initiated probe on Friday based on a Channel 4 story.  The UK-based channel late Friday night released a second

DHAKA: Bank of America is being forced to hand over more than $1 million to a Florida couple after the bank flooded them with hundreds of loan collection calls for years. In a complaint filed in July, attorneys for Nelson and Joyce Coniglio said that the couple had been on the receiving

DHAKA: The US Senate has approved a new annual defence bill expanding the military campaign against Islamic State (IS). The bill approves a general Pentagon budget of $496bn (£316bn) plus $64bn for US wars abroad. The measure also authorises the training and equipping of moderate

DHAKA: Torrential rains set off a mudslide down the hills into a village in central Indonesia, killing eight people and leaving more than 100 missing, officials said Saturday. About 105 houses were swept away by the landslide late Friday in Jemblung village in Banjarnegara district of

DHAKA: A major storm that pummeled northern California and the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and high winds and killed two people. The storm has moved south overnight, prompting evacuation orders in areas prone to floods and mud flows, reports the Straits Times. The National Weather

DHAKA: Hong Kong police arrested pro-democracy activists and cleared most of the main protest site, marking an end to more than two months of street demonstrations in the Chinese-controlled city, but many chanted ‘We will be back’. Most activists chose to leave the Admiralty site,

DHAKA: The Pakistani Taliban hit out at teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai over her Nobel peace prize on Friday, slamming her as a ‘soldier against Islamic society’. Malala became a global icon after she was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban in October 2012 for insisting

DHAKA: A Brazilian man has confessed to killing 39 women in the Rio de Janeiro region, police said Thursday.In an interview with Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo, the alleged killer, Sailson Jose das Gracas, said that he carried out the first slaying when he was 17 and continued to kill

DHAKA: CIA Director John Brennan has defended the agency's post-9/11 interrogation methods but admitted some techniques were "harsh" and "abhorrent".Speaking at CIA headquarters, he said some officers acted beyond their authority but most did their duty, reports BBC.A scathing Senate

DHAKA: Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who won the Pulitzer Prize three times for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients and the people who cared for them, died Dec. 11 while on assignment for The

DHAKA: India plans to decriminalise attempted suicide, raising hopes Thursday for the release of rights activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on a hunger strike for 14 years. India’s junior home minister has said it would act on recommendations from the law commission to amend

DHAKA: Russia will built, operate and maintain two units at phase II of Hungary’s Paks nuclear power project. The units will be built using Russia’s latest VVER 1200 technology.A series of contracts to this effect were signed in the Hungarian capital on December 9, 2014 by Sándor

DHAKA: Israeli and Palestinian officials issued conflicting accounts on Thursday over the results of an autopsy on a Palestinian minister who died after being shoved and grabbed by the neck by an Israeli policeman at a West Bank protest on Wednesday. Hussein al-Sheikh, a top Palestinian

DHAKA: The UN General Assembly will take up an India-led resolution on Thursday to declare June 21 every year as ‘International Day of Yoga’, with an unprecedented 175 countries joining as co-sponsors, less than three months after India prime minister Narendra Modi proposed the idea.

DHAKA: Russia’s state-owned Rosatom said it would supply 12 nuclear energy reactors for India over 20 years, under an agreement aimed at boosting nuclear energy cooperation signed by the two countries during a summit in New Delhi on Thursday.A 1,000-megawatt reactor is operating at the

DHAKA: At least six Afghan soldiers have been killed by a suicide bomber on the outskirts of the capital Kabul.Police and officials say, reports the BBC.They said that the bomber was on foot and targeted a bus carrying the troops.The Taliban say that they carried out the attack, the first

DHAKA: At least six Afghan soldiers have been killed by a suicide bomber on the outskirts of the capital Kabul, police and officials say.They said that the bomber was on foot and targeted a bus carrying the troops.The Taliban say that they carried out the attack, the first by them in the