DHAKA: Millions of Indians are voting Thrusday across 11 states and three Union Territories in one of the biggest phases of the national election to pick a new government at the Centre. Polling is taking place in 91 of the country`s 543 Lok Sabha constituencies.Among the constituencies

DHAKA: In one of the many frank exchanges US defence secretary Chuck Hagel had in China this week, General Fan Changlong told him how one of his uncles died as a slave in a Japanese mine during World War Two.General Fan, the deputy head of China’s powerful Central Military Commission,

DHAKA: Car bombs hit several mostly Shia neighborhoods of Baghdad and a town south of the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens, officials said, the latest bout of violence ahead of the country’s first parliament elections since the 2011 US troop

DHAKA: Kim Jong-Un was Wednesday ‘re-elected’ as North Korea’s leader, state media said, as parliament met in a session closely watched for power shifts in the secretive regime following the shock execution of his once-powerful uncle.The new parliament is expected to endorse

DHAKA: With over 50 percent of the votes counted, former president Megawati Sukarnoputri’s Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) is pulling ahead of its rivals in Indonesia’s legislative elections on Wednesday.Pollsters say PDI-P, the main opposition party which has named

DHAKA: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told his ministers to stop high-level meetings with their Palestinian counterparts.The order follows ‘Palestinians’ violation of their commitments under peace talks’, officials said, reports the BBC.It comes after a request by the

DHAKA: Italy has rescued 4,000 migrants from boats trying to reach European shores in the past 48 hours in a deepening immigration crisis, the interior minister said on Wednesday.Better sea conditions and turmoil in Libya, grappling with chaos and rampant militias three years after the

DHAKA: Australia prime minister Tony Abbott has landed in China, on the third leg of his tour of North Asia.Abbott touched down on the resort island of Hainan, reports abc.net.au.He is hoping to secure a free trade agreement with the country, after successfully reaching agreements with

DHAKA: Teams searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane have reacquired signals that could be consistent with "black box" flight recorders.An Australian vessel heard the signals again on Tuesday afternoon and evening, the search chief said, reports the BBC.Signals heard earlier had

DHAKA: At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured, some critically, on Wednesday when an explosion occurred behind the Metro Shopping center in the Sabzi Mandi area of the capital city.Police and rescue teams rushed to the site of the incident after the explosion occurred.Initial

DHAKA: A New York man has been exonerated over a 1989 murder as part of larger review of questionable convictions.Jonathan Fleming, now 51, had been on holiday in Disney World at the time of the murder and had documents supporting his alibi, but he was still convicted.Since then, a key

DHAKA: Voting has begun in Indonesia to elect representatives in national and local parliaments.Some 19,000 seats are being contested across the nation, including the 560 seats in the national parliament, reports the BBC.The polls will determine which parties can field candidates for the

DHAKA: Pakistani opposition parties are planning to challenge a sweeping new anti-terror law in court, politicians said on Tuesday, because they fear it will legalise human rights violations.The Protection of Pakistan Bill was passed late on Monday amid protests from members of parliament

DHAKA: The Supreme Court in the Philippines has approved a birth control law, in a defeat for the Catholic Church.The law requires government health centres to distribute free condoms and contraceptive pills.The court had deferred implementation after the law’s passage in December 2012

DHAKA: Italy’s navy on Tuesday said it had rescued more than 1,000 migrants over the past 24 hours, as new data showed a sharp rise in asylum claims, mostly from Syrians.Italy began a navy operation ‘Mare Nostrum’ (Our Sea), a Latin reference to the Mediterranean, after more than

DHAKA: A Junior Commissioned Officer of the Indian Army and two policemen were killed in a fierce encounter between militants and security forces in Zoonarewshi area of Kupwara district near the Line of Control in Kashmir.Two militants were also killed in the encounter, reports NDTV.The

DHAKA: Do fairies exist? Nor just in tales – is a question which was unsolved for many years. Recently a British professor is getting a swarm of attention for a series of photos depicting tiny creatures that he suggests look like fairies.International newspapers published some of the

DHAKA: NATO’s chief warned Russia on Tuesday it would be committing a ‘historic mistake’ if it intervened further in Ukraine, urging Moscow to ‘step back’ after pro-Kremlin militants seized government buildings in several cities in the east.‘I urge Russia to step back and not

DHAKA: It doesn’t matter where the investigations are carried out as long as the truth about the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 plane is out.Malaysia’s acting transport minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.As the search for the missing plane entered its second month, Hishammuddin, who

DHAKA: Ukraine’s acting president said Tuesday he would treat Russian separatists who have seized buildings in the east of the country as ‘terrorists’ who will be prosecuted with the full force of the law.‘The authorities will treat separatists and terrorists who have picked up