DHAKA: Three crew members who died saving passengers as a South Korean ferry sank last month were honoured by the government.    An engaged couple, Jung Hyun-seon and Kim Ki-Woong, and Park Ji-young, 22, were named "martyrs" on Monday, reports BBC.                        

DHAKA: Turkey must pay 90m euros in damages over its 1974 invasion of Cyprus, according to a decision by the European Court of Human Rights. The judgement is one of the largest ever ordered by the court, reports the BBC. It said the damages were compensation for losses endured during

DHAKA: Russia has called for implementation of the result of the controversial referendums organised by pro-Russian groups in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine says the Sunday votes on self-rule are ‘a farce’ with no legal basis. Russia has called for dialogue between the militants and Kiev

DHAKA: Boko Haram released a new video on Monday claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls, alleging the teenagers had converted to Islam and would not be released until all militant prisoners were freed. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, speaks on the video obtained by

DHAKA: Exit polls are predicting the end of the Congress-led UPA’s 10-year rule in India and return of the BJP-led NDA, attesting that its prime ministerial nominee Narendra Modi’s game plan focusing the polls on himself has paid off.   NewsX has projected a national scenario which

DHAKA: Police in China’s Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have arrested more than 200 people over six weeks for ‘dissemination of violent or terrorist videos’. China state media said on Monday, amid a wave of train station attacks, reports Hindustan Times. Police in

DHAKA: Millions of Indians in states of Bihar, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh have been voting, braving the searing sun on the final day of the country’s staggered parliamentary elections. Thousands lined up early on Monday to vote in the revered Hindu holy city of Varanasi, where

DHAKA: The Congress has said the Election Commission should take ‘cognisance’ of a video message that Narendra Modi released Monday as 41 constituencies across three states vote. Among those constituencies is Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh where Modi, the BJP’s prime ministerial

DHAKA: Some of the girls who managed to escape after being abducted last month from a school in northeastern Nigeria by the group Boko Haram have given harrowing accounts of their ordeal. Standing alongside their parents, the students described how the gunmen commanded the hundreds of

DHAKA: Taliban fighters have opened fire and stormed a government building in eastern Afghanistan in the most serious of a string of attacks across the country, while in Kabul two rockets struck inside the grounds of the city’s international airport but caused no damage. Following the

DHAKA: China has deployed armed police patrol vehicles in Beijing after three attacks at transport hubs around the country. The 150 vehicles are tasked with ‘countering street terrorism and fighting severe violence’, state-run Xinhua news agency said, reports the BBC. Petrol

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region claimed a resounding victory in a ‘self-rule’ referendum, saying 89% voted in favor. In Luhansk, another eastern region, the results, also expected to show a strong backing, will be released soon. Ukraine called the

DHAKA: The governor of Nigeria's Borno state says he has information on the whereabouts of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist group Boko Haram. Governor Kashim Shettima said he had passed reports of the sightings of the girls to the military for verification. Shettima added

DHAKA: One of India's most bitterly fought elections comes to a close Monday with voting in Varanasi, featuring two of the most watched politicians in the country - Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal - and 40 other constituencies across three states. The results will be declared on

DHAKA: At least 36 migrants drowned when their boat sank off the Libyan coast earlier this week, officials said, following the recovery of more bodies on Sunday. The navy said it rescued 52 people when the boat sank on Tuesday, but survivors say there were 130 people on board. On

DHAKA: At least 15 people were killed in a stampede at a football match in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, officials say. Reports say the trouble began after police fired tear gas in the crowded stadium, causing panic. More than 20 people were injured. Local

DHAKA: South-east Asia’s regional bloc called on Sunday for a ‘peaceful resolution’ to the political crisis gripping Thailand, days after a controversial court ruling removed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra from power.The 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean)

DHAKA: The chairman of Samsung Electronics is in a ‘stable condition’ after undergoing emergency heart surgery. The Samsung Medical Center says, reports the BBC. Lee Kun-hee underwent the operation after suffering breathing difficulties late on Saturday night. The hospital said he

DHAKA: India’s Election Commission on Sunday issued a notice to Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal for his alleged remark that ‘those who vote for Congress, BJP will commit treachery against God and country’. The AAP convener during a road show in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, which

DHAKA: At least 11 people have been killed after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a military police base in al-Mukalla, in southeast Yemen.Witnesses in the provincial capital of Hadramawt reported an ambulance ferrying casualties to a city hospital on Sunday, reports