DHAKA: Move over anaconda. At nearly 50-feet long and weighing in at 1,124 kgs, titanoboa is by far the biggest snake that ever lived on earth. Sixty million years ago in the swampy waters of what is now Colombia, the monster snake, 10 times as heavy as the average green anaconda, hunted

DHAKA: Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday he could easily work with India’s new government led by Narendra Modi, hoping that their personal focus on boosting business could help ‘turn a new page’ in bilateral ties. In an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times

DHAKA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Damodardas Modi, 63, took oath as the 15th Prime Minister of India at the biggest-ever swearing-in ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.He took oath along with 45 ministers, including key leaders Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Nitin

DHAKA: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow was willing to talk with Ukraine’s newly elected president Petro Poroshenko.‘We are ready for dialogue with Kiev’s representatives, with Petro Poroshenko,’ Lavrov said at a joint press conference with his

DHAKA: France’s Socialist government was hit by a fresh aftershock on Monday after a triumph for the far-right National Front (FN) in European elections was widely interpreted as a seismic shift in the country’s political landscape. As he met top ministers to assess a vote in which

DHAKA: Millions of voters are casting ballots across Egypt to choose a new president, for the second time in two years.A huge security operation has been mounted by police and the military, amid fear of attacks by militants seeking to isrupt the polls.Former army chief Abdul Fattah

DHAKA: Thai coup leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday he had been formally endorsed by the king as head of a military council that will run the country, and warned he would use force if political protests flared up again. He did not set a timeframe for how long the army would

DHAKA: Pope Francis is to visit Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, on the final leg of his three-day Middle East tour. After arriving in Israel on Sunday, the Pope described the Holocaust as ‘an enduring symbol of the depths to which human evil can sink’. On Monday,

DHAKA: Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in New Delhi on Monday for the swearing-in ceremony of his incoming Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in a symbolic meeting of the two regional rivals. Sharif smiled and waved to television cameras after landing at the capital’s main

DHAKA: 20 people are feared dead and 10 passengers were injured after an Express train rammed a stationary goods train near Khalilabad in Uttar Pradesh of India, reports the NDTV. The incident took place this morning when the express train came on the same track near Churaid Railway

DHAKA: Petro Poroshenko has declared himself winner in Ukraine's presidential election and vowed to end the conflict in his country, after an exit poll showed he had won an outright majority. Poroshenko, appearing on television on Sunday shortly after the poll was published, hailed what

DHAKA: Libya's interim parliament approved a new government, led by Prime Minister Ahmed Mitig, in a controversial vote that threatens to deepen the country's political and security crisis. A total of 83 of 93 members present voted in favor of Mitig's government. Lawmakers in the

DHAKA: Narendra Modi, dressed in all white, visited Rajghat, the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, early Monday. He then tweeted, "On my way to Atal ji's residence to seek his blessings." Modi, 63, will be sworn in as Prime Minister at 6 this evening at the majestic presidential palace, the

DHAKA: A day before the 50th death anniversary of first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, President Pranab Mukherjee will swear in as PM a leader who has led the most successful political assault on the Nehruvian consensus, India's governance mantra since Independence barring the NDA

DHAKA: Under the cover of darkness, President Obama landed at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan for a surprise visit with U.S. troops. Air Force One landed at Bagram Air Field, the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, after an overnight flight from Washington. Obama was scheduled to spend just a

DHAKA: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Sunday accepted Pope Francis’s invitation to pray for peace with Israeli president Shimon Peres on June 6 at the Vatican. Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat told media, reports The Straits Times. Peres’s spokesman said earlier that

DHAKA: Afghanistan’s election commission has fired half its staff - 5,338 people - over alleged fraud in the first round of presidential elections last month.Those sacked will be barred from working on the second round next month, commission officials said, reports the BBC.Both the

DHAKA: Life may exist on at least half a dozen other worlds, besides the Earth, and it may just take us another two decades to discover it, according to scientists.Scientists are searching for life beyond Earth using three different methods, Seth Shostak, senior astronomer with the

DHAKA: Thailand’s ruling military laid out its economic priorities on Sunday, telling financial officials from the public and private sectors that it wanted to quickly pay farmers money owed under a failed subsidy scheme and work out a budget for 2015.The army has consolidated its power

DHAKA: Prince William is considering taking to flying again as an air ambulance pilot rather than embark on full-time royal duties in the UK.A year after the third-in-line to the British throne stepped down as a search-and-rescue pilot with the Royal Air Force (RAF), plans are being drawn