DHAKA: US-led forces have continued air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants near the besieged Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobane.A senior local official said IS had been pushed back towards the edge of the town as a result of the strikes and advances by the town’s

DHAKA: Hong Kong government has called off a meeting on Friday with student leaders of the pro-democracy movement.Chief Secretary Carrie Lam said it would be “impossible to have a constructive dialogue” after protest leaders called for an increase in efforts to occupy main protest

DHAKA: The Narendra Modi government of India, which believes itself to be efficient and hard working, received sharp criticism on Thursday from the Supreme Court which said it behaved like 'Kumbhakarna', the mythological character who loved sleeping for long periods. The court also

DHAKA: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella late Thursday sought to walk-back comments he made at a women’s computer science conference, when he suggested women don’t need to ask for a raise — they should just trust the system, reports usatoday. “Was inarticulate re how women should ask

DHAKA: Hong Kong’s student protesters say on Thursday they will not retreat from their barricades and will take over new areas in their struggle for full democracy unless the government meets their demands.‘Without a just explanation and concrete ideas of how to settle the current

DHAKA: At least 40 people in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on supporters of a Shia rebel group.The blast struck as hundreds of people were arriving in Tahrir Square for a demonstration called by the Houthis, reports the BBC.Later, a suicide bomb

DHAKA: Former chief minister of Indian state of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa’s arch rival, the 92 year-old DMK chief M Karunanidhi, has predicted that her ‘comeback to power can only be a dream. It would never be fulfilled’.Karunanidhi took 12 days to react to Jayalalithaa being

DHAKA: A deadly suicide bomb has ripped through the heart of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, causing multiple casualties. Witnesses say, reports the BBC. At least 10 people were reported to have died in Tahrir Square, in the centre of the city, which appeared to target a Shia checkpoint and

DHAKA: The US and UK have warned that air strikes alone will not prevent Islamic State (IS) fighters from seizing the Syrian town of Kobane. A Pentagon spokesman said the US and its allies were "doing everything we can from the air" but there were limits to what the campaign could

DHAKA: Myanmar authorities sealed off Muslim-majority region villages for months. Some cases of beat and arrested people also happening who refused to register with immigration officials.Residents and activists said the occurrence may be the most aggressive effort yet to compel

DHAKA: Five Afghan men have been executed for gang-raping four women, in a case that has sparked national outrage.Officials say the men were executed in Pul-e-Charkhi prison east of Kabul. A sixth man convicted of unrelated crimes was also hanged.The authorities ignored last-minute

DHAKA: More than 330 people have been killed in Ukraine since a fragile truce began a month ago, with five million people affected by continuing violence.The United Nations said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.A report from the UN rights agency also found that before the

DHAKA: Beijing on Wednesday dismissed the possibility of the Dalai Lama’s return to Tibet, days after the exiled spiritual leader indicated he was in contact with Chinese officials over a historic pilgrimage.‘Our position on the Dalai Lama is consistent and clear,’ Chinese

DHAKA: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has declared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this year to Eric Betzig, Stefan W Hell and William E Moerner ‘for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy’.Eric Betzig works at Janelia Farm Research Campus and William E.

DHAKA: Talks between pro-democracy protesters and government officials in Hong Kong will be held on Friday.Officials say, reports the BBC.The talks will discuss ‘legal implementations of these political reforms’, said Lau Kong-wah, government undersecretary, referring to the 2017

DHAKA: Islamic State (IS) militants withdrew from some parts of the embattled Syrian town of Kobane overnight after air strikes by a US-led coalition, a monitor said October 8.Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said ‘fighters from the (IS)

DHAKA: Hundreds of children have been killed by the Ebola epidemic ravaging west Africa, yet for the thousands spared, the grim struggle for survival has only just begun. Children across Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are finding themselves alone in the world, ostracised by communities

DHAKA: Stargazers in the Americas and Asia will be treated to a lunar eclipse on Wednesday, a celestial show that will bathe the moon in red to create a ‘blood moon’. During the total lunar eclipse, which will last several hours, the Earth will pass between the sun and the moon. As

DHAKA: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck in China's Yunnan province on Tuesday.The United States Geological Survey said this which reports Yahoo.com.The USGS said the quake’s epicenter was 163 km (101 miles) north-northwest of Yunjinghong and 10 km deep.BDST: 2105 HRS, OCT 7,

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra Modi has assets worth Rs 1.26 crore, according to details of assets and liabilities of the Union Council of Ministers uploaded on the PMO website.While finance and defence minister Arun Jaitley turns out to be the richest with assets totaling Rs