DHAKA: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama marked the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing on Wednesday by urging China to embrace democracy and offering prayers for the protest ‘martyrs’. The Dalai Lama, reviled by Beijing as a separatist, made

DHAKA: Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has won Egypt’s presidential elections by a huge majority, the country’s election commission has said. The former military chief, who last July overthrew Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Mursi, won 96.91 of legal votes cast in

DHAKA: Beijing tightened security around Tiananmen Square on Wednesday, the 25th anniversary of the June 4, 1989, crackdown on student-led protests. Dozens of riot police and police patrol cars could be seen parked around the square, as well as at intersections several blocks away on the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama is to discuss economic support for Ukraine when he meets president-elect Petro Poroshenko in Warsaw. Obama has said he will offer US support as Kiev tries to settle a gas bill with Russian supplier Gazprom or risk a cut in supply, reports the BBC.

DHAKA:  Election officials began counting votes in Syria's presidential election early on Wednesday as polls closed in government-held areas. State-run media reported that voting closed at midnight and that officials began the process of checking the number of votes against lists of

DHAKA: A Pakistan air force fighter plane crashed at a bus terminal on the outskirts of Karachi on Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring nine. Pakistan officials said, reports The Straits Times. The accident happened in the Baldia Town district just west of Karachi,

DHAKA: Thailand’s junta said on Tuesday that it was ending a curfew in the major tourist resorts of Pattaya, Koh Samui and Phuket imposed after last month’s military coup. The measure will be scrapped ‘to create a favourable climate for tourism’, the military said in a televised

DHAKA: Nato head Anders Fogh Rasmussen dismissed presidential elections in Syria as a ‘farce’ on Tuesday, saying they did not meet international standards. ‘The Syrian presidential election is a farce,’ Rasmussen said as he went into a Nato defence ministers meeting, reports The

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama launched a European tour on Tuesday shaped by the escalating separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine and worries among former Soviet satellites about Russia’s new expansionist threat. Obama landed in Warsaw for celebrations of the 25th anniversary of

DHAKA: Opponents of Thailand’s military coup are risking arrest by flashing the three-finger salute from the ‘Hunger Games’ movies to defy a junta that has banned all public protests. The gesture has become the unofficial symbol of resistance against a military regime that has

DHAKA: Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe may visit North Korea, Japan said on Tuesday, days after announcing a deal to re-open the probe into Japanese citizens kidnapped by spies in the Cold War. Any such visit would be controversial, especially in Seoul and Washington, which have led the

DHAKA: A new road connecting Siliguri in West Bengal with neigbouring countries Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal will be constructed at a cost of Rs. 1,400 crore.India's West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said in Jalpaiguri on Monday.“We will be developing a new road connecting

DHAKA: At least 16 people were killed when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims, including Indians, fell into a river in western Nepal Monday. Unconfirmed reports said that 11 Indians were among those killed when the bus rolled down a mountain road while returning from Pyuthan district, 250 kms

DHAKA: Congress president Sonia Gandhi today sprang a surprise by nominating former union minister Mallikarjun Kharge as the party’s leader in the Lok Sabha.It, however, remains to be seen whether his status will be upgraded as Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. For any party to

DHAKA: A 69-year-old lady was allegedly raped and murdered by unknown culprits at Santa Cruz village near Panaji in Indian state of Goa on Saturday night.The police said Monday, reports NDTV.The lady was alone in her residence when the incident took place, said a police spokesperson

DHAKA: The United States on Monday proposed ordering cuts of up to 30 percent in carbon emissions from power plants in president Barack Obama’s most ambitious action yet on climate change.The Environmental Protection Agency laid out a proposal that would let states choose ways to meet

DHAKA: India’s women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi Monday said that she will not go to Badaun, where two girls were gang-raped and murdered last week until she does something to fix the situation.‘I will see to it that there are no more Badauns,’ she said, reports

DHAKA: Former railway minister Mallikarjun Kharge will be the leader of the Congress in the 16th Lok Sabha.Party leader Janardan Dwivedi said on Monday, reports Hindustan Times.The first session of the new Lok Sabha begins on Wednesday and will continue for a week.Following the

DHAKA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Monday said that prime minister Nawaz Sharif was treated like a ‘schoolboy’ when he visited India to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony last week.By not meeting the representatives of the Hurriyat Conference in New

DHAKA: A bombing at a football pitch in Nigeria's restive northeast killed at least 40 people on Sunday. A police officer and a nurse said, Times of India publishes this report on Monday. The blast hit the town of Mubi in Adamawa state which has been under a state of emergency for more