DHAKA: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 flew around Indonesian airspace apparently to avoid detection after vanishing from radar screens on March 8, a media report said Sunday, suggesting the possibility of a more sinister reason behind the jet`s disappearance.Malaysian authorities, citing

DHAKA: India`s general election, to elect 543 members to the 16th Lok Sabha, kicks off today, with balloting starting from two states in the northeast - Assam and Tripura.The nine-phase voting, that will be done in 930,000 polling stations across the country with a staggering 814 million

DHAKA: Rahul Gandhi, frontman for India’s ruling Congress party, warned on Sunday on the eve of the world’s biggest election that the country faces religious turmoil if the opposition Hindu nationalist party wins power.Gandhi said majority Hindus would be pitted against minority

DHAKA: About 50 pro-Russian protesters chanting ‘Donetsk is a Russian city!’ broke through police lines on Sunday and stormed inside the main administration building of the eastern Ukrainian city.The activists moved away from a crowd of about 2,000 rallying on the main city square and

DHAKA: A roadside bomb killed two Afghan election workers and destroyed dozens of ballot papers in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, the police and an election official said, the day after an election that ended without any major violence despite Taliban threats.Around 60 percent of

DHAKA: One person was killed and 14 wounded on Sunday in a series of apparently co-ordinated blasts, including a car bomb, in a major town in Thailand`s insurgency-hit south.Thailand army said, reports The Straits Times.Four explosions rocked Yala, a provincial capital, on Sunday

DHAKA: World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming.A draft United Nations study to be approved this week shows, says The Straits Times.Government officials and top climate scientists will meet in

DHAKA: More than 2,000 people including relatives held an emotional mass prayer on Sunday for the safety of the passengers on MH370.Orange-robed Buddhist monks chanted mantras for almost two hours, before about two dozen tearful relatives left the event.The Straits Times publishes this

DHAKA: Two Japanese companies have agreed deals to develop advanced coal-fired power plants in Malaysia and Myanmar as part of a government drive to export energy efficiency technology to emerging markets.A report said Sunday.The Japanese government is seeking to promote the export of

DHAKA: North Korea has slammed the South’s recent ballistic missile test, calling it a ‘farce’ aimed at showing off Seoul’s military strength in the face of threats from Pyongyang.Seoul said on Friday it had successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile capable of carrying a

DHAKA: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday searchers were ‘hopeful but by no means certain’ that a pulse signal reportedly detected by a Chinese ship in the Indian Ocean was related to a Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing for four weeks.Chinese state news agency

DHAKA: US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Sunday warned China against unilateral action to resolve a territorial dispute with Japan or other Asian countries, drawing a parallel with Russia`s incursion in Ukraine.‘All nations deserve respect, no matter how large or how small,’ Hagel

DHAKA: The nine-phase Lok Sabha election begins on Monday from northeast India, with polling in five of the 14 seats in Assam and one of the two constituencies in Tripura.The six are part of the 543 constituencies where polling will take place from April 7 to May 12. The results will be

DHAKA: Australian co-ordinators in the search for a missing Malaysian plane say a Chinese ship has detected a pulse signal for a second time, within hours of it being heard earlier on Saturday.Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston called the discovery in the southern Indian Ocean an "important

DHAKA: Afghan and Western leaders have praised the turnout in Afghanistan`s presidential election, describing the vote as a success.It is the strife-torn nation`s first transfer of power via the ballot box.More than seven million Afghans out of an estimated 12 million eligible voted in

DHAKA: A top Thai protest leader on Saturday asked anti-government activists to prepare for the ‘final battle’ to be triggered by the ouster of embattled premier Yingluck Shinawatra, even as thousands of pro-government ‘Red Shirts’ gathered here for a massive three-day

DHAKA: The head of the European Union’s Afghan election observer mission condemned the suspension of mobile text messaging services across the country on Saturday, saying it threatened the transparency of the poll.Cellphone users were able to make calls but not send SMS messages in an

DHAKA: At least 23 people were killed in clashes between rival families in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan.Egypt health and security officials said on Saturday, reports gulfnews.com.The violence erupted late on Friday after students from the feuding families had scrawled insulting

DHAkA: Ukraine energy minister Yuri Prodan said on Saturday Kiev would not take natural gas from pipelines that deliver supplies to European consumers if Russia turns off gas to Ukraine.Russia has accused Ukraine of stealing gas from pipelines that transit its territory during previous

DHAKA: Polling stations in Saturday’s election to choose a successor to Afghan president Hamid Karzai officially closed at 5pm (1230 GMT).Afghan officials said, reports The Straits Times.But voting was set to continue for some time as voters in line at polling stations would be allowed