DHAKA: Narendra Modi, BJP prime minister aspirant, reiterated that Bangladeshi infiltrators who were allowed into the country for votebank politics would have to go back, while refugees who have been thrown out of Bangladesh on religious grounds would be greeted with open arms. "BJP's

DHAKA: A group of 11 terrorists with links to Al Qaeda were being interrogated on whether they are behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday.The suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in the state of Kedah last week and are members of a violent

FROM KOLKATA: In ensuing Indian Lokshova election Congress candidate and state Congress leader Mala Roy has accused Mamata Banarjee for supporting Bangladeshi religious party Jamaat–e-Islami as well as for opposing the Teesta water sharing pact. The state congress leader has also told

DHAKA: More than 60 people arrested over Friday's violence in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa have been freed by police after protesters attacked the main police station. Several hundred pro-Russian protesters besieged the police headquarters, breaking through windows and doors. The

DHAKA: The death toll in the South Korean ferry disaster has jumped to 259, with 43 people still missing, the government reported Monday. The higher death toll comes after bodies were retrieved from the fourth deck of the Sewol ferry, according to South Korea's Government Rescue

DHAKA: A Tory council candidate has resigned from the party with immediate effect after posting anti-Islamic and homophobic comments on Twitter.David Bishop, a candidate in Brentwood South, Essex, apologised after retweeting messages, including one that claimed Islam was the religion of

DHAKA: A Belgian mayor has banned a congress that had attracted several figures from the French far right, including controversial comedian Dieudonne.Opponents have condemned the meeting as ‘anti-Semitic’, and Anderlecht Mayor Eric Tomas said he was banning it to ensure public

DHAKA: Nineteen people were killed and at least 30 were injured when four compartments of the Diva-Sawantwadi Passenger, along with the engine, were derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations in Maharashtra’s Raigad district in India on Sunday morning. Police said the incident

DHAKA: Nineteen people were killed and at least 30 were injured when four compartments of the Diva-Sawantwadi Passenger, along with the engine, were derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations in Maharashtra’s Raigad district in India on Sunday morning. Police said the incident

DHAKA: Fighting between Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch and a splinter group in eastern Syria has forced more than 60,000 people to flee their homes, emptied villages and killed scores of fighters. A monitoring group said, reports The Straits Times. Infighting among rebels opposed to

DHAKA: A bridge has collapsed in southern China, killing 11 people, state media and officials say. The stone arch bridge was being constructed illegally at a village in Gaozhou City, Guangdong province, the officials said, reports the BBC. It collapsed on Saturday, killing five people

DHAKA: Aid groups on Sunday rushed to reach survivors of a landslide in northern Afghanistan that entombed a village, killing hundreds of people and leaving 700 families homeless in the mountains. Much of Aab Bareek village in Badakhshan province was swallowed on Friday by a fast-moving

DHAKA: Ukraine vowed on Sunday to broaden its ‘anti-terrorist’ operation against pro-Russian rebels, as the crisis-hit country marked its second day of mourning after violence that left more than 50 dead. National Security and Defence Council chief Andriy Parubiy said the armed

DHAKA: Demanding that chief minister Tarun Gogoi visit their area, people of Salbari in Assam’s violence-hit Baksa district on Sunday refused to bury their kin killed in attacks by NDFB-S militants. Angry protesters in Nankekhadrabari area on Sunday said they will not perform the last

DHAKA: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi ruled out the possibility of his party supporting the Third Front to form the government. ‘We will not support any front,’ Gandhi, who was campaigning in his constituency, told reporters on Saturday, says NDTV. He was asked whether

DHAKA: Eight people were killed when four compartments of the Diva-Sawantwadi Passenger, along with the engine, were derailed between Nagothane and Roha stations in India’s Maharashtra state’s Raigad district on Sunday morning. Police said the incident occurred in a tunnel near Nidi

DHAKA: A day after BJP president Rajnath Singh held out the olive branch to her, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee ruled out any alliance with the right wing party. ‘Some parties want to incite riots in Bengal and divide people, based on religion and language. People of Uttar

DHAKA:The grim reality begun to set in for the relatives of those aboard the South Korean Sewol ferry, as officials confirmed yet more deaths.   The search-and-rescue operation has long since turned into a grueling recovery of corpses. No one has been found alive since the day the ship

DHAKA: East Ukraine is braced for more unrest, as troops from Kiev prepare to continue "anti-terror" operations and pro-Russian gunmen reinforce barricades. Ukrainian soldiers advanced on several cities on Saturday to regain control of buildings seized by the gunmen, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: East Ukraine is braced for more unrest, as troops from Kiev prepare to continue "anti-terror" operations and pro-Russian gunmen reinforce barricades. Ukrainian soldiers advanced on several cities on Saturday to regain control of buildings seized by the gunmen, reports the BBC.