DHAKA: Myanmar has called off an election scheduled for the end of this year to fill 35 vacated seats in parliament. The Union Election Commission announced on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. Election Commission Chairman Tin Aye said that the election would be cancelled because the

DHAKA: The US is carrying out a series of air strikes on Islamic State militants close to the vital Haditha dam in western Iraq.US officials say, reports the BBC.The strikes are to protect the Iraqi forces and Sunni tribesmen in control of the dam.The US has carried out scores of air

DHAKA: Severe flooding from an intense monsoon season has left more than 250 people dead and hundreds more homeless across parts of South Asia and China. Dozens more have been injured or are missing.In Pakistan, flash flooding has killed 110 people and injured nearly 150 others in

DHAKA: Ukrainian government forces have been hit by an artillery attack near the port of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, in the first significant violation of a ceasefire declared little more than 24 hours earlier.The Reuters news agency early on Sunday said an industrial facility, a

DHAKA: The Ukrainian and Russian presidents have agreed that a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is ‘largely holding’. Ukraine’s Petro Poroshenko said he spoke by phone to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss steps to make Friday’s truce durable, reports the BBC. Some

DHAKA: The death toll in the Jammu and Kashmir floods has risen to 160 as the floods, the worst the state has seen in 60 years, affected a staggering 2,500 villages.India’s union home minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said as he assured help to deal with the grim situation,

DHAKA: Abandoning his pledge to act by the end of summer, US president Barack Obama has decided to delay any executive action on immigration until after the November congressional elections.White House officials said, reports Yahoo news.The move is certain to infuriate immigration

DHAKA: A 3000-year-old bronze sword has been discovered in a local river by an 11-year-old child in east China’s Jiangsu Province.Yang Junxi discovered the rusty sword on July 2 when he was playing near the Laozhoulin River in Gaoyou County.While washing hands in the river, Yang

DHAKA: At least 36 people were killed and dozens injured when two passenger buses collided along a busy road in north-western Tanzania.Tanzania police said Saturday, TDS publishes this report on Saturday.Officers said it was still not clear what caused the accident on Friday afternoon

DHAKA: Syrian war planes hit a bakery run by Islamic State in the city of Raqqa, killing at least 17 people, in air raids on Saturday that also hit a major training camp used by the group for a second day running.A group monitoring the war said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The air

DHAKA: An Egyptian prosecutor charged ousted president Mohamed Mursi and several of his aides on Saturday with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar.Relations between Qatar, a Gulf Arab state, and Egypt have been tense since mid-2013,

DHAKA: Russia warned on Saturday that it would react if the European Union imposed fresh economic sanctions against it over the situation in Ukraine. ‘As for the new list of sanctions from the European Union, if they are passed, there will undoubtedly be a reaction from our side,’

DHAKA: Imprisoned in Vietnam? You may still be able to keep in touch with friends and family via social media network Facebook, according to a local news report.Vietnam's prison inmates are using Facebok on smartphones that have been smuggled in, reported the Dan Tri newspaper on

DHAKA: The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume in about two weeks, with Australia and Malaysia splitting the cost to the tune of A$60 million each.Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.‘It will commence in about a

DHAKA: Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Saturday said Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit scheduled for this month had been postponed due to anti-government protests in Islamabad.‘In view of the current political situation in Pakistan, the governments of China and Pakistan

DHAKA: Sierra Leone - one of the countries worst hit by West Africa's Ebola outbreak - has announced a four-day lockdown to try to tackle the disease, BBC reports.From 18 to 21 September people will not be allowed to leave their homes, a senior official said.The aim of the move is to

DHAKA: The US has announced that Nato allies have agreed to form a coalition to fight the Islamic State, with Barack Obama stating the group's "savage nihilism" must be confronted.The US president said on Friday that the US and its key allies would be mount a sustained effort to push

DHAKA: A ceasefire agreed by the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia rebels in the east appears to be holding.No fighting was reported overnight after the deal was struck in Minsk, capital of Belarus, on Friday.Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says there should now be talks about a

DHAKA: An unresponsive private plane has crashed in the sea off Jamaica, officials on the island have said.The Jamaican Defence Force said the plane went down about 14 miles (22km) north-east of Port Antonio.The US had earlier scrambled two F-15 fighter jets when the plane failed to

DHAKA: Leader of Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, killed by US attack earlier this week. Quoting Pentagon sources, BBC reports the matter on Friday. BDST: 2153 HRS, SEP 05.2014