DHAKA: While the plane they were flying plunged 5,000 feet, a Jet Airways pilot was asleep and the co-pilot was busy on an iPad checking out flight information.Both have been suspended by aviation regulator DGCA which is now investigating the incident, reports NDTV.A total of 280

DHAKA: Israel and the Palestinians have begun a fresh five-day ceasefire in Gaza, agreed at the end of a three-day truce.As the ceasefire was announced, Israel launched air strikes in response to alleged rocket fire from Gaza.There were no more reports of violence overnight, and the two

DHAKA: Pope Francis has landed in South Korea, beginning his first visit to Asia since he took over the papacy in March 2013. During his trip, he will beatify Korean Catholics who died for their faith and attend a Catholic youth festival. The South Korean Catholic Church is one of the

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has handed over a check for $100m to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to help finance the UN's centre to combat global terrorism. The UN chief welcomed the gift at a ceremony in his office and said the recent upsurge in terrorism in a number of countries and regions -

DHAKA: Fire erupted in right engine of Jet Airways flight headed to Bhopal from Delhi. All passengers evacuated safely, reports TOI BDST: 0944 HRS, AUG 14, 2014

DHAKA: A mass evacuation of Yazidis hiding from extremist fighters on Iraq's Sinjar Mountains is unlikely following an assessment by the U.S. State Department and military that found far fewer people trapped than previously feared. Once believed to be in the tens of thousands, the number

DHAKA: Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos died Wednesday when a small plane carrying him to a campaign stop crashed into a residential neighborhood, state media reported. All seven people aboard the the Cessna 560XL were killed when the aircraft crashed in the coastal city

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken an initiative to push for Parliamentary approval of the Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh before December 16, the victory day of the neighbouring country.The central leadership of the BJP has asked the party's West

DHAKA: Israel has launched air strikes on Gaza early Thursday after being targeted by rocket fire, just as agreement had been reached on extending a truce by five days.Israel's military said it was targeting "terror sites" after at least five rockets were launched from Gaza.The

DHAKA: Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia have come out belatedly against Israel’s attacks against Hamas in Gaza in response to rocket fire, as their antipathy to Hamas has been overshadowed, as of late, by anti-Israel rhetoric meant for the masses. As the war against Hamas began, Jordan,

DHAKA: Edward Snowden says dishonest comments to Congress by the US chief of national intelligence pushed him over the edge and prompted him to leak a trove of national security documents. In a wide-ranging interview with Wired magazine over several days from Moscow, Snowden said he had

DHAKA: Six people were killed in the Gaza Strip when an Israeli missile exploded amid attempts to dismantle it. The dead included two journalists, an Italian and a Palestinian, and a number of bomb disposal officers. The incident happened in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the north of the

DHAKA: France will deliver weapons to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic extremists in Iraq, French president Francois Hollande announced on Wednesday. ‘In order to respond to the urgent need expressed by the Kurdistan regional authorities, the president has decided, in agreement with

DHAKA: Taiwan’s science and technology minister said Wednesday that China is launching frequent cyber attacks on the island despite warming ties between the two former rivals.‘The Chinese cyberwar units have been engaging with Taiwan units almost every day, with some severe

DHAKA: Italy’s government on Wednesday confirmed the death of Italian journalist Simone Camilli in Gaza during an operation to dismantle an Israeli missile.‘Simone Camilli’s death is a tragedy for his family and for the country. Once more a reporter pays the price for a war

DHAKA: A Swiss train derailed on Wednesday in the mountainous eastern region of Graubuenden. Switzerland’s ATS news agency reported, says The Straits Times. ATS said that Graubuenden police said the accident was ‘serious’, but that officers had not provided further details.

DHAKA: Thai police on Wednesday said up to 16 people were believed to have died when a building caved in during construction, as they issued arrest warrants for several people behind the project. Three bodies, including those of a woman and her four-year-old daughter, have so far been

DHAKA: Jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) group have taken control of a string of villages in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. A monitoring group said on Wednesday, reports Hindustan Times. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the extremist group had

DHAKA: Thailand’s military government gave preliminary approval on Wednesday for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offence, following a spate of dramatic surrogacy scandals in the past two weeks. The case of an Australian couple accused of abandoning their Down

DHAKA: Iraq’s caretaker prime minister Nuri al-Maliki said Wednesday that it will take a federal court ruling for him to leave power, defying president Fuad Masum’s decision to task a rival with forming the next government. ‘I confirm that the government will continue and there