DHAKA: More than 35,000 Nepalese made a bid Saturday to form the world’s largest ‘human national flag’ as they sought to set a new international record. As the country’s anthem played, participants held up crimson, blue and white coloured cardboard for 10 minutes on an open

DHAKA: A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into an intelligence headquarters in Baghdad Saturday, killing at least eight people. Police and medical sources said, reports TDS. The attack came a day after Shiite militiamen machinegunned 68 Sunni worshipers at a village mosque in Diyala

DHAKA: Hamas has signed a proposal for the Palestinians to apply to join the International Criminal Court at which legal action could be taken against Israel. A senior official of the Islamist movement said Saturday, reports The Straits Times. ‘Hamas signed the document which

DHAKA: Martial law will remain in effect after junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha becomes prime minister, according to a spokesperson for the ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO). NCPO spokesman Sirichan Ngathong said Friday it was hoped that martial law would help the country

DHAKA: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said military operations will ‘intensify’ after an Israeli boy was killed by fire from Gaza. The four-year-old died in a mortar attack on a southern Israeli village near the Gaza border. Meanwhile Israeli air strikes have

DHAKA: The police in Central Java have tightened security measures at the Borobudur Temple in Magelang in response to an apparent threat made by Islamic State (IS) supporters to attack the world-renowned cultural heritage site. National Police spokesman Ronny F Sompie said on Friday that

    DHAKA: A boat carrying 170 undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa was feared lost at sea off the Libyan capital Tripoli, a local coast guard official told media.“We are looking for 170 African passengers on a wooden boat that has foundered off the Guarakouzi area”

DHAKA: The death toll from the deadly landslides in the city of Hiroshima rose to 42 on Saturday, with 43 still missing, as rescuers continued to remove mud and pick through rubble in search of any survivors three days after torrential rain triggered the mountainside disaster.

DHAKA: In a major ceasefire violation along the International Border, Pakistani troops targeted 22 Border Security Force posts and several villages last night, killing at least two civilians and injuring four others.One jawan has also been injured in the most intense firing on the

DHAKA: Mounting further pressure, 34 Opposition lawmakers resigned from the National Assembly to force the Nawaz Sharif government to quit but their party Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf surprisingly decided to resume talks after the failed first round.For the second time since it mobilised

DHAKA: Lorries from a Russian aid convoy streamed into Ukraine without permission, after Russia accused Ukraine of unreasonable obstruction.Russia's foreign ministry said Ukraine had held up the convoy in order to pursue war against rebels in Luhansk, where the aid is destined.The

DHAKA: At least 73 people have been killed after a Shia Muslim armed group opened fired inside an Iraqi Sunni mosque in the country’s eastern Diyala province on Friday. A security source said bodies had been arriving at the hospital in the city of Baquba in Diyala province, reports Al

DHAKA: Jnanpith awardee and renowned Kannada writer UR Ananthamurthy died on Friday at a hospital in Bangalore of India, where he was undergoing treatment for kidney failure.The 82-year-old was said to be in critical condition and was on multi-monitor support. He was hospitalized for

DHAKA: More than 191,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict up to April, the UN human rights chief says. Navi Pillay said the figure was “probably an underestimate” and criticised what she called “international paralysis” on the issue, reports BBC on Friday. The

DHAKA: At least 25 people have died in a collapse at a gold mine 60 km (40 miles) north of the Central African Republic town of Bambari, a spokesman for the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels said on Friday. The mine at Ndassima is carved deep into a forested hilltop north of Seleka's military

DHAKA: Hamas has killed 11 suspected informers for Israel, a Gaza security official said, a day after Israel killed three of the group's top military commanders in an airstrike on a house in southern Gaza Strip. The security official said the 11 suspected informers were killed early on

DHAKA: Islamic State militants are the most dangerous threat the US has faced in recent years, Washington has warned. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said US air strikes had helped to break the Islamist advance in Iraq, but the militants could be expected to regroup. America's top general

DHAKA: African countries have tightened travel curbs in an effort to contain the Ebola outbreak, ignoring World Health Organisation (WHO) warnings that such measures could heighten shortages of food and basic supplies in affected areas.In the West Point slum in Liberia's capital

DHAKA: At least 33 people have been killed and more than 40 injured when two buses collided early on Friday morning in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, according to the Egyptian news agency MENA. The incident happened around 50 km from Sharm el-Sheikh. The accident is believed to have happened

DHAKA: The bodies and ashes of 20 Malaysians killed when Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine in July have arrived in Kuala Lumpur.It was the first repatriation of victims from the flight to the country.The government has urged people to wear black and observe a