DHAKA: The death toll in Tuesday’s derailment on the Moscow metro has risen to 19. The Russian emergency ministry says, reports the BBC. Scores were injured, some seriously, when a packed commuter train braked abruptly between stations in the west of the city in the morning rush hour.

DHAKA: Israel has resumed its air strikes on Gaza after its brief ceasefire was met with continuing rocket fire. Israel had earlier accepted an Egyptian truce proposal for the conflict and stopped operations on Tuesday morning. However, the armed wing of Hamas, which controls Gaza,

DHAKA: Iraq’s parliament has elected Salim al-Jabouri as speaker, breaking weeks of political deadlock amid a jihadist-led Sunni rebellion in the north and west. The main Sunni Arab bloc in the Council of Representatives had nominated the moderate Islamist for the position. Despite

DHAKA: The death toll in Tuesday’s derailment on the Moscow metro has risen to 12. The Russian emergency ministry says, reports the BBC. Scores were injured, some seriously, when a packed commuter train braked abruptly between stations in the west of the city in the morning rush hour.

DHAKA: At least 89 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province. The defence ministry says, reports the BBC. Officials say the attacker drove a 4x4 vehicle into the market in Orgun district and detonated the explosives.

DHAKA: Hong Kong’s leader formally proposed electoral reforms to Beijing on Tuesday, although he stopped short of recommending specific changes ahead of an election in the Asian financial centre in 2017 for its next chief executive. Leung Chun-ying’s report to the Standing Committee

DHAKA: Iraqi security forces advanced into militant-held Tikrit on Tuesday in an assault aimed at revitalising flagging efforts to retake the city. Officials said, reports The Straits Times. Security forces began the attack on Tuesday morning and have succeeded in retaking government

DHAKA: Many people are feared dead in a car bomb explosion at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktika province. The attacker drove a 4x4 vehicle into the market in Orgun district and detonated the explosives, a senior official told the BBC. The market was crowded, full of

DHAKA: Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Philip Hammond as foreign secretary on Tuesday as he reshuffles his cabinet ahead of the 2015 general election. ’Philip Hammond is the new Foreign Secretary,’ Cameron said on his official Twitter feed, reports The Jerusalem Post.

DHAKA: The Modi government is committed to lower taxes, India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley told The Times of India in his first interview to a newspaper after the Budget. It was an article of faith with him as well as the prime minister that lower taxes gave people money to spend

DHAKA; The newly-appointed chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) Yellapragada Sudershan Rao appears to be a votary of the caste system. In a blog written in 2007, Rao had said that the ‘positive aspects of Indian culture are so deep that the merits of ancient systems

DHAKA: A train has derailed in the Russian capital Moscow, killing at least three people, injuring many more and leaving some passengers trapped. Officials say, reports the BBC. A statement from the metro said only that a train derailed on the network’s blue line, without providing

DHAKA: The Philippines evacuated eastern coastal areas, suspended ferry services and closed schools in parts of the main Luzon island on Tuesday, as the strongest storm to hit the country since Typhoon Haiyan last year charted a direct course for the capital Manila. Typhoon Rammasun,

DHAKA: The United States signed an agreement with Qatar on Monday to sell the Gulf Arab ally Apache attack helicopters and Patriot and Javelin air-defense systems valued at $11 billion. It was the biggest U.S. arms sale so far this year, according to media reports. “Today’s signing

DHAKA: The deadly H1N1 virus has claimed the lives of 12 people at Kerala in India so far. The virus, which re-surfaced with the onset of monsoon, is usually at its peak during the rains. Doctors said that the recent spurt in the number of people suffering from swine flu was expected and

DHAKA: Israel has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a truce in the conflict in Gaza, BBC reported.      Hamas, which controls Gaza, has not formally responded. But its armed wing has rejected the plan as” surrender".                     The proposal urges a ceasefire

DHAKA: Nearly 10 million passengers used around 20 Brazilian airports in 31 days of the football World Cup. Air transport worked normally during the event despite the notable increase in airplane trips and the high demand from the passengers, reports the NDTV.com. Flying was the main

DHAKA: The unvaccinated children in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) continued to thwart global efforts to eradicate polio as National Institute of Health, Islamabad confirmed three new polio cases in Khyber Agency on Monday.      The new cases took the nationwide polio

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday that he wants US-Chinese relations defined by more cooperation and a constructive management of differences, during a phone call in which Iran and North Korea were also discussed. The conversation between the

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit at Fortaleza in Brazil.They discussed various issues including the need to resolve the border dispute in an amicable manner, reports the NDTV on Tuesday.During the