DHAKA: Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has said it has been expelled from Myanmar and that tens of thousands of lives are at risk in the country.The decision came after the humanitarian group reported it recently treated nearly two dozen Rohingya Muslim victims of

DHAKA: Sahara chief Subrata Roy, who was sent to police custody till March 4 yesterday after he turned himself in following a Supreme Court warrant, spent the night at a forest guest house in Kukrail, nine kms from Lucknow. His lawyers have requested for a house arrest.The Sahara chief

DHAKA: Russian aircraft carrying nearly 2,000 suspected troops have landed at a military airbase near the regional capital of the restive Crimean peninsula, a top Ukrainian official has said, accusing Moscow of an "armed invasion"."Thirteen Russian aircraft landed at the airport of

DHAKA: An internet security firm has stumbled upon a "mind boggling" and "Godzilla-sized" cache of personal data put up for sale on the online black market by hackers.One of the hacker attacks stole over 105 million records making it the single largest data breach in cyber crime

DHAKA: Three Bangladeshi expatriate workers were killed in a fire incident at a workers’ hostel in Makharka area under the capital Manama of Bahrain on early Friday.      Two of the deceased were identified as Mosharraf Hossain and Abu Jalal. The identity of another deceased could

DHAKA: A bus crash in eastern Thailand has killed at least 15 people, including 13 students, Thai authorities say.The bus was travelling to the seaside town of Pattaya, about 150km (90 miles) south-east of Bangkok, when it crashed into a truck, police said.Thirteen students and two

DHAKA: North Korea launched four Scud missiles into the sea off its eastern coast Thursday, the South Korean Defense Ministry said.The missiles were fired in the direction of Russia and fell into the sea, according to the Pentagon, which described the launch as a very low-level matter,

DHAKA: The World Bank has postponed a $90m (£54m) loan to Uganda over its tough new anti-gay law that has drawn criticism from around the world.World Bank officials said they wanted to guarantee the projects the loan was destined to support were not going to be adversely affected by the

DHAKA: The US has called for all sides to "step back and avoid any kind of provocations" amid heightened tensions in Ukraine`s Crimea region.Secretary of State John Kerry said he had spoken to his Russian counterpart who promised to respect Ukraine`s "territorial integrity".But he warned

DHAKA: A Pakistan party which has been staging sit-ins to block the NATO supply to Afghanistan in protest against covert US drone strikes in the country on Thursday announced an end to its campaign.The decision of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI), led by the cricketer-turned politician

DHAKA: The Indian Supreme Court Thursday stopped the Tamil Nadu government from releasing four of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi`s assassins who are serving life terms.The court also said it will decide, within a week, on the fight between the Centre and Tamil Nadu over who can decide

DHAKA: A jawan of the Rashtriya Rifles shot dead five of his colleagues and later killed himself at an Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir late last night. Two more soldiers were injured in the firing.The incident happened in the Manasbal area of Ganderbal district, nearly 30 kilometres north

DHAKA: Ukraine`s new interim government has been presented at Kiev`s main protest camp, the Maidan, following last week`s ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych.The Maidan council named Arseniy Yatsenyuk to become prime minister. The cabinet - to be voted on by MPs on Thursday - includes

DHAKA: Our galactic neighborhood just got a lot bigger. NASA on Wednesday announced the discovery of 715 new planets, by far the biggest batch of planets ever unveiled at once.By way of comparison, about 1,000 planets total had been identified in our galaxy before Wednesday.Four of those

DHAKA: Egyptian army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will keep his post as defence minister in a new government, an official source said on Wednesday, quashing speculation he was about to announce a widely expected bid for the presidency.Sisi is tipped to win the upcoming

DHAKA: Navy chief Admiral DK Joshi on Wednesday resigned after two officers were feared killed and seven sailors injured when a fire erupted on board a submarine, INS Sindhuratna, around 40 nautical miles off Mumbai.Taking moral responsibility for the accidents and incidents which have

DHAKA: An Egyptian criminal court on Wednesday sentenced 26 militants to death for founding a ‘terror group’ that aimed to target ships in the Suez canal.Egypt judicial sources said, reports The Straits Times.Prosecutors also accused the defendants of making rockets and explosives

DHAKA: Turkey’s president Abdullah Gul on Wednesday signed into law a contested bill tightening the government’s grip on the judiciary as it grapples to contain the fallout from a major corruption probe.The new law, which sparked fistfights among lawmakers debating it in parliament,

DHAKA: The makeup of Ukraine’s new government will be announced on Wednesday on Kiev’s Independence Square, the scene of three months of at times deadly protests.A lawmaker said, reports The Straits Times.‘At 7:00 pm we will take to the stage to present the new government to the

DHAKA: Pakistan on Wednesday unveiled its first ever counter-terrorism policy after battling a homegrown Islamist insurgency for more than a decade, announcing that every act of militant violence would be met with retaliation on their bases.Interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan