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

DHAKA: Narendra Modi-led BJP has broken several electoral records in the Lok Sabha polls. His swearing-in ceremony too, will set several new precedents.Rashtrapati Bhavan will see it’s highest-ever turnout which includes eight heads of state, almost 150 envoys with their retinue and

DHAKA: Yemeni troops have launched a ground assault against al-Qaeda suspects who fled a recent large army operation in the south to a district near the capital Sanaa, killing three fighters.Sources told media, reports Al Jazeera.‘Yemen’s anti-terrorism forces carried out a military

DHAKA: Lightning repeatedly struck the One World Trade Center tower in an epic display Friday night as a heavy rainstorm passed over New York City. The dramatic strikes were captured by a number of photographers and videographers—including a few lucky amateurs who just happened to have

DHAKA: The invitation extended to Nawaz Sharif for Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony has not gone down well with the widow of martyred Indian soldier Hemraj, who on Sunday demanded that the Pakistan premier either bring back her husband’s head or condemn the barbarous

DHAKA: In a historic feat for Indian mountaineering, 13-year-old Malavath Purna on Saturday became the youngest female climber to scale the Mount Everest. Purna was accompanied by Sadhanapalli Anand Kumar (16), a Class IX student from the Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh, and completed

DHAKA: Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday ordered the release of 151 Indian prisoners ahead of his historic visit to New Delhi to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing-in as premier.Islamabad’s move to free the prisoners, mostly fishermen accused of violating Pakistan’s