DHAKA: Thailand’s caretaker prime minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongphaisan said on Tuesday he had asked the Election Commission to organise an election on August 3. Niwatthamrong also said he would talk to the army chief ‘as soon as possible’ to end the country’s political crisis,

DHAKA: The BJP leadership made some progress in settling top slots in government with party chief Rajnath Singh tipped to be the home minister while senior leader Arun Jaitley could be the next finance minister. While a degree of clarity is emerging on ministry formation, the BJP is yet

DHAKA: At least four people were killed and 15 injured on Tuesday after parts of a freight train derailed and collided with a passenger train south of Moscow. The emergencies ministry said, reports The Times of India. The ministry said the accident occurred at 1:00pm local time (0900

DHAKA: Narendra Modi was unanimously elected as the leader of BJP parliamentary party on Tuesday with the Prime Minister-designate saying the election result was a vote for ‘new hope and aspiration’ and he would try his best to live up to the expectations of the people of the country.

DHAKA: The US has sent 130 more military advisors to the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says.The marines and special operations forces will assess the humanitarian situation and will not be engaged in combat, a US defence official said.The US has been

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama has led tributes to US actor and comedian Robin Williams, who has been found dead, aged 63, in an apparent suicide.Marin County Police in California said Williams was pronounced dead at his home after officials responded to an emergency call around

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia told Israel on Tuesday that it must reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians if it is to survive as a nation, and criticized Muslims for being divided and failing to stop the Jewish state attacking its Arab neighbors.‘Israel has to realize that peace is the

DHAKA: The killings of at least 817 people by Egyptian security forces last year probably amount to a crime against humanity.Human Rights Watch says, reports the BBC.A report by the US-based group says 1,000 or more people probably died in one day around Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque.The deaths

DHAKA: Several thousand civilians remain trapped by militants on a mountain in northern Iraq and need ‘life-saving assistance’.The United Nations warns, reports the BBC.Members of the Yazidi sect fled there 10 days ago after fighters from Islamic State (IS) seized the town of

DHAKA: South Africa’s ex-president Thabo Mbeki has called for a boycott of Israeli goods to show solidarity with Palestinians.The public should mobilise against Israel so that it ‘does pay a price for the position that it is taking’, Mbeki said in the capital, Pretoria, reports

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Israel and the Palestinians to utilize the temporary cease-fire in Gaza. He also urged the groups for ensuing indirect diplomatic negotiations in Egypt to reach talks regarding a ‘bigger, broader approach to a two-state solution’. In

DHAKA: Dozens of people have been killed in an air strike in the rebel-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul, reports say. At least 30 died when a drone attacked a prison used by the Islamic State (IS) as a base, sources told the BBC. Iraqi state TV said 60 suspected militants had been

DHAKA: An Indian fashion shoot showing a woman being groped on a bus has caused anger, with social media users saying it glamorises the 2012 Delhi gang rape. Photographer Raj Shetye’s images show a model fighting off men on a bus, in a scene reminiscent of the rape and murder that

DHAKA: Some four Bangladeshi nationals were killed as two separate missiles blasted in Serraj area of Tripoli in Libya on Tuesday. Assistant Secretary of External Publicity Wing in Foreign Ministry Dayamayee Chakraborty issued a press release in this regard on Wednesday. The deceased

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Vienna on Sunday for talks with foreign ministers from the six powers negotiating with Tehran on its nuclear program. Kerry arrived in the early hours after clinching a deal in Kabul with Afghanistan’s presidential candidates to end

DHAKA: North Korea fired two short-range missiles early Sunday towards waters east of the Korean Peninsula, the latest such launch in the tense region, a South Korean official said. The projectiles were fired at 1:20am and 1:30am Sunday according to the South Korean defense ministry

DHAKA: The UN Security Council has called for a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, BBC reports.Israeli air strikes hit the territory's security HQ and police stations early on Sunday, in what Palestinian sources described as the heaviest bombing since

DHAKA: Gunmen have stormed two buildings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing at least 29 people including 20 women.  The attack took place late on Saturday in the neighbourhood of Zayouna in east Baghdad, police said. One officer said he "found bodies everywhere". The motive for the

DHAKA: A Thai court Thursday passed a suspended prison sentence on an anti-coup activist for breaching a ban on political gatherings, his lawyer said, in the first protest-related verdict since the military takeover.Weerayuth Kongkanathan, 49, was given a one-month suspended jail

DHAKA: An Indian passenger train set a new national speed record of 160 kilometres an hour on Thursday during a test between the capital and the Taj Mahal city of Agra.The introduction of high-speed links and bullet trains were one of the key poll campaign promises of India’s new