DHAKA: Four primary schoolchildren were killed in a knife attack by a man in south China’s Guangxi region, the latest such incident in the country in recent years. The four children in Pingshan town of Lingshan county were attacked by the knife-wielding middle-aged man at about 6:20 am

DHAKA: At least 12 people were killed in five days as over 100 of Taliban fighters have stormed a district of Afghan province near the capital. The officials on Friday said there were fears that the area will fall to the insurgents, reports the NDTV. Provincial deputy governor

FROM CHERUS, KUALALUMPUR: Bangladeshi students are trapped in the attractive advertisements which say that part time job side by side with studying.  Being victims of fraud agents, few hundreds of Bangladeshi students are facing an embarrassing situation after coming over here. 

DHAKA: A US court has ordered Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to respond to allegations that he failed to stop the 2002 riots in Gujarat, the state he ruled for 14 years till he came to power at the Centre in May.Modi, who begins a five-day visit to the US today, has 21 days to

DHAKA: Fifty people died in violence on Sunday in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said, in what police called a "serious terrorist attack".Earlier this week state media reported the incident in Luntai county but gave the death toll as two.On Thursday a state news portal said 40 "rioters",

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has said the global community has not done enough to respond to the crisis posed by the Ebola outbreak that is currently spiralling out of control in West Africa."There is still a significant gap between where we are and where we need to be," Obama

DHAKA: Eric Holder said he would step down as US attorney general, setting up a potentially bruising Senate fight to confirm a successor who can tackle a long list of pending challenges at the Justice Department.Holder, an unapologetic liberal voice and one of president Barack

DHAKA: British prime minister David Cameron is expected to win approval from parliament to join US-led air strikes on Islamic State militants in Iraq at a specially convened session on Friday.A coalition including the United States and Middle Eastern allies such as Saudi Arabia and

DHAKA: About 1,000 volunteers from the Asia-Pacific region have sought to join the Islamic State (IS) group.A senior military officer said on Thursday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Friday.Admiral Samuel Locklear, who oversees American forces across Asia as head of Pacific

DHAKA: A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska on Thursday and was felt in the state capital Anchorage.The US Geological Survey (USGS) and social media reported, The Straits Times publishes this report on Friday.No tsunami alert was issued by the Pacific Tsunami Alert Warning Centre

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra Modi left for New York on Thursday on a six-day visit focused on boosting trade and resetting ties with the USA, the world’s largest economy.In a statement ahead of his departure, Modi said he was ‘confident that the visit will mark the start

DHAKA: Iranian president Hassan Rohani told the United Nations on Thursday that the West had made ‘strategic blunders’ in the Middle East and that moderates in the region should take a central role in countering extremism.Just days after the United States extended air strikes

DHAKA: Iraq’s prime minister has said his country’s intelligence officials have uncovered a plot to attack underground rail systems in the US and Paris.Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said he was told foreign fighters among the Islamic State group in Iraq were plotting an

DHAKA: David Cameron, the UK prime minister, and Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, have expressed commitment for Iran and major powers to reach a long-term agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.The two leaders met at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday in the first such

DHAKA: Nigeria’s military claimed Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau was dead, saying troops had shot a lookalike who had been posing as the militant commander.Defence spokesman Chris Olukolade told reporters in Abuja that a heavily bearded Islamist fighter identified as Mohammed

DHAKA: Three people were killed when a tourist boat capsized on the River Paraguay during a heavy storm near the town of Carmelo Peralta in northern Paraguay.Police said 14 passengers managed to swim ashore, but 10 were still missing.The boat, Dream of the Pantanal, sank, about 600km

DHAKA: Cyprus has launched a rescue mission for 300 people, thought to be Syrian refugees, stranded off the island’s west coast.Most of the people on the small fishing boat are believed to be women and children, reports the BBC on Thursday.They were spotted 55 nautical miles (100km)

DHAKA: The US-led coalition against Islamic States (IS) has targeted oil refineries in Syria during a third night of air strikes against the militants.The raids - carried out by US, Saudi and UAE aircraft - killed 14 IS fighters and five civilians in eastern Syria, activists said that

First Bangla learning institution Red and Green Academy is going to start functioning in Malaysia from next October 18. This is the first Bangla learning institution in greater Malaysia. Under the supervision of CLC language center, the institution has been set up in a beautiful

DHAKA: The American held in North Korea, Matthew Miller, begins his six-year sentence of hard labor on Thursday, CNN reports.  A North Korean government official released a photo of Miller, taken on Wednesday. Dressed in a blue-gray prison garment with the number 107 and his head