DHAKA: The US has urged North Korea not to threaten regional peace by conducting new nuclear tests, saying it is monitoring the Korean peninsula because of Pyongyang`s history of taking "provocative actions".White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Tuesday that Washington was

DHAKA: Ukraine`s acting president has ordered a military operation against pro-Kremlin separatists in the east of the country, after the body of a local politician from his own party was found showing signs of torture."I demand the resumption of effective counter-terrorism measures to

DHAKA: Suicide bombings and other attacks across Iraq have killed at least 33 people and wounded another 80, in a surge of violence as the country counts down to parliamentary elections.Monday`s deadliest attack took place south of Baghdad in the town of Suwayrah, where a suicide bomber

DHAKA: A Saudi prince poached over 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in 21-day hunting safari in Chagai of Balochistan in Pakistan indulging illegal hunting in protected areas, reports Pak English daily Dawn on Tuesday.The daily made the report based on as report titled

DHAKA: The confirmed death toll from the South Korean ferry that capsized last week has passed 100, as divers recovered more bodies from the sunken hull.A total of 104 people are now known to have died, but another 198 are missing, presumed trapped inside the vessel.The ferry tipped over

DHAKA: Bharathi Kannamma, a 53-years-old Indian transgender is campaigning in her southern hometown for a seat in parliament, reports the Dawn.They said, ‘with a tight budget and a humble auto-rickshaw, the pioneering Indian transgender wants seat at Lok Sabha just days after the

DHAKA: Just days away from the beginning of the busiest climbing season of the year at Mount Everest, expeditions are unsure whether climbs on the world`s highest peak will go ahead or not.They said it is sure that climbs on the world`s highest peak will not be possible for this season as

DHAKA: Despite a brutal civil war that has killed more than 1,50,000 people, Syria will hold presidential elections on June 3, the country’s parliamentary speaker said on Monday, reports Al Arabiya News.              It says that ‘elections for the president of the Syrian

DHAKA: Sikh protestors gathered at the Congress office today, demanding action against party leader Captain Amarinder Singh for his recent remarks to NDTV on the anti-Sikh riots of 1984. Amarinder Singh, who has served as Chief Minister of Punjab, had declared that Jagdish Tytler for the

DHAKA: A submarine scanning the ocean floor for signs of a missing Malaysian airliner is two-thirds of the way through its search but has yet to find the plane, officials say.The Bluefin-21 submarine was to embark on its ninth search mission on Monday.Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went

DHAKA: South Korean President Park Geun-hye has condemned the conduct of some of the crew of the ferry that sank last week, calling it "akin to murder".Ms Park said that those to blame would have to take "criminal and civil" responsibility for their actions.Divers are continuing to

DHAKA: At least 30 militants were killed in "massive and unprecedented" operation against Al Qaeda, Yemeni government official says, reports the CNN.BDST: 0841 HRS, APR 21, 2014

DHAKA: At least 14 soldiers were killed and 7 others injured late Saturday in an ambush attack by militants in northern Algeria, a security source said Sunday, reports Yahoo News.They said that the militants targeted an army patrol combing a mountainous area in the northern province of

DHAKA: Families of missing Malaysian flight MH 370 are going to get financial assistance from the Government, reports abc NEWS on Sunday.It said that a Malaysian official met Sunday with relatives of passengers who were aboard the missing jetliner and discussed ways of providing them with

DHAKA: At least five security guards were killed while nine others were seriously injured in eastern Baghdad over suicide bombing at a university on Sunday, reports the World Bulletin.It said that the attack occurred before noon when two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests tried to

DHAKA: The underwater drone scanning for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 finished its seventh mission Sunday, having covered about half its intended territory without finding any sign of the missing plane.CNN reports on Sunday.It said, ‘this has been the case for 44 days now, which seems

DHAKA: Death toll reached near 60 while 246 still are unaccounted in South Korean ferry disaster, reports Voice of America.voanews said that by early Sunday divers also have entered the sunken ferry Sewol to recover more bodies.In this incident 56 bodies have been recovered and most of

DHAKA: At least four people were killed Sunday in a gun battle in restive eastern Ukraine, shattering a fragile Easter truce in the crisis-hit former Soviet republic, reports Yahoo News on Sunday.They mentioned ‘three pro-Russian militants and one attacker were killed in a deadly

DHAKA: Families of passengers on a sunken South Korean ferry have protested angrily over the rescue operation.Police stopped up to 100 people trying to leave Jindo island intending to march to the country`s capital, Seoul.After more than three days, divers have now finally entered the

DHAKA: Mastodons -- elephant-like beasts that lumbered across North America more than 10,000 years ago -- are long extinct, but apparently it wasn`t tooth decay that did them in.A 9-year-old Michigan boy stumbled across something -- literally -- that, it turns out, is a mastodon tooth,