CALCUTTA: India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is acting as a friend of Bangladesh by staging a political drama protesting Modi’s statements. But actually she was in a hostile mood to Bangladesh on Teesta water sharing issue and Bangladesh deprived of getting fair water

CALCUTTA: India’s West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is acting as a friend of Bangladesh by staging a political drama protesting Modi’s statements. But actually she was in a hostile mood to Bangladesh on Teesta water sharing issue and Bangladesh deprived of getting fair water

DHAKA: Curfew was on Monday relaxed in violence-hit Baksa and Kokrajhar and neighbouring Chirang districts in Indian province of Assam where 34 persons were killed in the mayhem unleashed by NDFB-Songbijit militants since Thursday last. With no fresh incident reported so far, the

DHAKA: A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook buildings in Tokyo early on Monday, lightly injuring 17 people, but officials stressed there was no risk of a tsunami.Tokyo inhabitants, set to enjoy a national holiday, were woken shortly after dawn by the quake, which jolted the

DHAKA: Narendra Modi, BJP prime minister aspirant, reiterated that Bangladeshi infiltrators who were allowed into the country for votebank politics would have to go back, while refugees who have been thrown out of Bangladesh on religious grounds would be greeted with open arms. "BJP's

DHAKA: A group of 11 terrorists with links to Al Qaeda were being interrogated on whether they are behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday.The suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in the state of Kedah last week and are members of a violent

FROM KOLKATA: In ensuing Indian Lokshova election Congress candidate and state Congress leader Mala Roy has accused Mamata Banarjee for supporting Bangladeshi religious party Jamaat–e-Islami as well as for opposing the Teesta water sharing pact. The state congress leader has also told

DHAKA: More than 60 people arrested over Friday's violence in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa have been freed by police after protesters attacked the main police station. Several hundred pro-Russian protesters besieged the police headquarters, breaking through windows and doors. The

DHAKA: The death toll in the South Korean ferry disaster has jumped to 259, with 43 people still missing, the government reported Monday. The higher death toll comes after bodies were retrieved from the fourth deck of the Sewol ferry, according to South Korea's Government Rescue

DHAKA: A Tory council candidate has resigned from the party with immediate effect after posting anti-Islamic and homophobic comments on Twitter.David Bishop, a candidate in Brentwood South, Essex, apologised after retweeting messages, including one that claimed Islam was the religion of

DHAKA: A Belgian mayor has banned a congress that had attracted several figures from the French far right, including controversial comedian Dieudonne.Opponents have condemned the meeting as ‘anti-Semitic’, and Anderlecht Mayor Eric Tomas said he was banning it to ensure public

DHAKA: Nineteen people were killed and at least 30 were injured when four compartments of the Diva-Sawantwadi Passenger, along with the engine, were derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations in Maharashtra’s Raigad district in India on Sunday morning. Police said the incident

DHAKA: Nineteen people were killed and at least 30 were injured when four compartments of the Diva-Sawantwadi Passenger, along with the engine, were derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations in Maharashtra’s Raigad district in India on Sunday morning. Police said the incident

DHAKA: Fighting between Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch and a splinter group in eastern Syria has forced more than 60,000 people to flee their homes, emptied villages and killed scores of fighters. A monitoring group said, reports The Straits Times. Infighting among rebels opposed to

DHAKA: A bridge has collapsed in southern China, killing 11 people, state media and officials say. The stone arch bridge was being constructed illegally at a village in Gaozhou City, Guangdong province, the officials said, reports the BBC. It collapsed on Saturday, killing five people

DHAKA: Aid groups on Sunday rushed to reach survivors of a landslide in northern Afghanistan that entombed a village, killing hundreds of people and leaving 700 families homeless in the mountains. Much of Aab Bareek village in Badakhshan province was swallowed on Friday by a fast-moving

DHAKA: Ukraine vowed on Sunday to broaden its ‘anti-terrorist’ operation against pro-Russian rebels, as the crisis-hit country marked its second day of mourning after violence that left more than 50 dead. National Security and Defence Council chief Andriy Parubiy said the armed

DHAKA: Demanding that chief minister Tarun Gogoi visit their area, people of Salbari in Assam’s violence-hit Baksa district on Sunday refused to bury their kin killed in attacks by NDFB-S militants. Angry protesters in Nankekhadrabari area on Sunday said they will not perform the last

DHAKA: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi ruled out the possibility of his party supporting the Third Front to form the government. ‘We will not support any front,’ Gandhi, who was campaigning in his constituency, told reporters on Saturday, says NDTV. He was asked whether

DHAKA: Eight people were killed when four compartments of the Diva-Sawantwadi Passenger, along with the engine, were derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations in India’s Maharashtra state’s Raigad district on Sunday morning. Police said the incident occurred in a tunnel near Nidi