DHAKA: Representatives of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters have agreed to hold formal talks with the government. No date has been set but the students made it clear the talks would be called off if the remaining demonstrators were cleared from the streets by force. As the protests

DHAKA: A lightning strike killed 11 members of an indigenous tribe in northern Colombia Monday after an electrical storm broke out during an early morning ritual. Helicopters airlifted 13 injured people to hospitals for treatment, Gen. German Saavedra told reporters.The lightning

DHAKA: A crowded bus skidded off a hilly road in far-western Nepal on Monday, killing at least 23 people and injuring 40 others, while heavy rain hampered rescue efforts, stasiareport.com reports.  The passenger bus, packed with people travelling during the country's busy holiday season

DHAKA: French prime minister Manuel Valls during a visit to London on Monday warned that Britain would ‘lose a lot’ if it were to leave the European Union. ‘Britain, and in particular the City, would lose a lot if it were to turn its back on Europe,’ Valls told executives in a

DHAKA: The New York Times newspaper has apologised for a cartoon on India’s Mars Mission following readers’ complaints that it mocked India. The cartoon showed a farmer with a cow knocking at the door of a room marked Elite Space Club where two men sit reading a newspaper on

DHAKA: The next phase of the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has begun in the southern Indian Ocean. A ship equipped with specialised sonar technology has arrived in a remote stretch of ocean where the plane is believed to have ended its flight. The Boeing 777,

DHAKA: China has taken 160,000 ‘phantom’ government staff off its official payroll who were receiving salaries despite not doing any work. State-media reported on Monday, reports The Straits Times. A total of 162,629 officials who were taking government wages without working have

DHAKA: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was awarded with one half to John O’Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Mosel. The Nobel Prize committee awarded the trio for ‘their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the

DHAKA: Brazilian incumbent Dilma Rousseff has won most votes in the country’s presidential election, but has fallen short of outright victory.She received about 42% of the vote and faces a run-off against centre-right rival Aecio Neves, who got 34%.Analysts now predict a potentially

DHAKA: More than 142 million Brazilians are voting to choose the country’s next president, following a dramatic election campaign. Early on, incumbent Dilma Rousseff had been expected to win outright. However, the death of one of the main candidates and the popularity of his

DHAKA: The US Navy says it will soon use armed, robotic patrol boats with no sailors on board to escort and defend warships moving through sensitive sea lanes. The technology, adapted from NASA’s rovers on Mars, will transform how the American navy operates and is sure to raise fresh

DHAKA: Somali government troops backed by African Union forces have captured a key stronghold of al-Shabab Islamists. The regional governor told the BBC that he was in the centre of Barawe, about 200km south of Mogadishu. The government now controls all the seaports along the coast of

DHAKA: Hong Kong’s Occupy Central pro-democracy campaign announced on its Twitter page Sunday evening that it was leaving one of the main protest sites, the shopping belt of Mong Kok, for another site, the government and business district of Admiralty.  Protestors also decided to

DHAKA: At least 18 people died after being trapped in an illegal gold mine that collapsed in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, a search and rescue agency official said on Sunday, as efforts continued to search for possible survivors. Small-scale and illegal mining is a flash point

DHAKA: The Pakistani Taliban declared allegiance to Islamic State and ordered militants across the region to help the Middle Eastern jihadist group in its campaign to set up a global Islamic caliphate.Islamic State, which controls swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, has been making

DHAKA: The Pakistani Taliban declared allegiance to Islamic State and ordered militants across the region to help the Middle Eastern jihadist group in its campaign to set up a global Islamic caliphate.Islamic State, which controls swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, has been making

DHAKA: Fresh scuffles erupted between pro-democracy activists occupying central parts of Hong Kong and riot police, as the protests entered their second week. Thousands of people held a rally overnight, defying the Beijing-backed authorities, although by Sunday morning many of the

DHAKA: A mass grave has been found on the outskirts the Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing on 27 September, BBC reports.  It is not clear whether the bodies found in a pit are those of the missing students, who were last seen being forced into police vans. The group

DHAKA:  The Pakistani Taliban declared allegiance to Islamic State on Saturday and ordered militants across the region to help the Middle Eastern jihadist group in its campaign to set up a global Islamic caliphate, NDTV reports.  Islamic State, which controls swathes of land in Syria

DUBAI: The holy Eid-ul-Azha, one of the two main religious festivals of Islam, was celebrated in Arab Emirates on Friday. Thousands of Bangladeshi expatriates observed the largest festival with religious zeal and fervor. The Bangladeshis kept busy themselves by enjoying the festival