DHAKA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s website http://teammodi.in/ has been hacked after his declaration ‘all infiltrators from Bangladesh would be sent back after May 16 if BJP is voted to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections’.   A

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has deported around 427,000 foreigners over the last six months, figures from the interior ministry indicate.   The statistics also show that 12,635 expatriates are waiting at special centers for their deportation process to be completed in order to leave the

DHAKA: The pro-Russian mayor of the town of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine was left fighting for his life after being seriously wounded by gunfire on Monday.   Gennady Kernes was ‘hit by a bullet in the back’ during an attack by unknown gunmen, officials said, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Indian police said on Monday they had found the body of a murdered Briton wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped outside shops in New Delhi.   The 40-year-old man had a British passport in his pocket which police said bore the name Rodick Andrew Reymond.   The body was found on

DHAKA: China’s foreign ministry on Monday restated its opposition to placing sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, after leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) major economies agreed to swiftly impose further punitive measures.   Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said China had

DHAKA: Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has registered to stand in next month’s presidential election, which he is widely expected to win.   Syria parliament speaker Mohammed al-Lahham said on Monday, reports The Straits Times.   The June 3 vote will be held despite a raging

DHAKA: As three-month-old Asoma Khatu approached her final, laboured breaths, her neighbour Elia, a 50-year-old former farmer, dug through the strongbox holding some of the last medicines in this camp for Myanmar’s displaced Rohingya.   First, they got some paracetamol for the

DHAKA: An Egyptian court has sentenced 683 people, including Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to death.   In a separate case, the same court also reversed 492 death sentences out of 529 it passed in March, commuting most of the death sentences to life in prison, media reported,

DHAKA: At least 12 people have been killed by tornadoes as a huge storm system swept across the central and southern United States.   Eleven of the victims were in several suburbs of Little Rock in Arkansas, a state official said.   One other person was killed in the town of Quapaw

DHAKA: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi declared that all infiltrators from Bangladesh would be sent back after May 16 if his party is voted to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Counting of votes for all 543 Lok Sabha seats will be taken up

DHAKA: Microsoft is warning Internet Explorer users about active attacks that attempt to exploit a previously unknown security flaw in every supported version of IE. The vulnerability could be used to silently install malicious software without any help from users, save for perhaps merely

DHAKA: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is entering a new phase, focusing on a larger underwater area.   Abbott says it has been 52 days since the plane disappeared and it is now highly unlikely that any debris

DHAKA: EU diplomats meet on Monday to agree the names of more Russians to be targeted in a broadening of sanctions over Moscow's actions in Ukraine.   The US and other G7 states are also planning further steps against Russia, accusing it of destabilising Ukraine.   On Sunday,

DHAKA: The number of new cases of the Middle East respiratory symptom coronavirus spiked by 26 over the weekend, including 10 deaths, the Saudi Arabian Health Ministry said.   This brings the total number of known cases of MERS-CoV to 339 in Saudi Arabia, including 102 deaths,

DHAKA: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has called the Holocaust ‘the most heinous crime’ in modern history. The remarks were released ahead of Israel’s Holocaust memorial day, reports the BBC. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Abbas ‘can’t say the Holocaust is

DHAKA: Public fears have been fuelled by a rapid rise in the number of fatalities from the respiratory infection, with 31 people dying this month, almost a third of the 94 deaths registered since the virus emerged in April 2012. A 63-year-old woman, who had also suffered chronic illness,

DHAKA: An Egyptian court sentenced 42 supporters of deposed president Mohamed Mursi on Sunday to prison terms ranging from three to 15 years on violence-related charges. An Egyptian judicial source said, reports The Straits Times. The verdict was delivered by Said Youssef Sabry, the

DHAKA: An investigation was under way on Sunday to find out why a British military helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing five troops. The Lynx helicopter crashed during a routine flight in Kandahar province on Saturday, causing the third biggest single loss of life for

DHAKA: The Afghan presidential election will go to a second round, after no candidate reached the 50% needed for an outright win, preliminary results show. Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah won most votes with 44.9%. Former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani came second with

DHAKA: Pro-Russian Ukrainian rebels holding captive an international team of military observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Osce) said on Sunday they are ‘prisoners of war’ and brought them before the media in a news conference. The group of eight