The Vatican has launched a worldwide survey to find out what Catholics really think about its teaching on marriage and family life. Pope Francis is calling bishops to Rome next October to discuss possible reform that considers modern social realities.
India has successfully launched a spacecraft to the Red Planet – with the aim of becoming the fourth space agency to reach Mars.
A Pakistani court has granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf over the 2007 army operation to oust militants from Islamabad’s Red Mosque.
Egypt’s ousted leader Mohammed Morsi has gone on trial in Cairo, telling the judge the case is illegitimate as he remains president.
By N Sathiya Moorthy Even as the rest of the world and Maldivians too had almost given up the country as on the brink of a political and leadership chaos, it has bounced back with the kind of verve and…
Gunmen in north-eastern Nigeria have killed more than 30 people in a attack on a wedding convoy.
A rare solar eclipse allowing a view of the Sun that is totally or partially blocked out by the Moon is under way.
Yangon — A boat carrying 70 ethnic minority Muslim Rohingya capsized Sunday off the western coast of Myanmar, an aid worker said. Only eight survivors have been found.
The military commander in China’s restive western province of Xinjiang has been stripped of his Communist Party position, state media report.
Israeli aircraft have carried out a strike near the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, a US official says. The official said the strike targeted Russian-made missiles intended for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
A voicemail message left by Prince Harry was hacked by the News of the World, the Old Bailey has heard.
The German government says it is keen to hear directly from the fugitive NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about the US spy agency’s activities.
Agartala: The separatist groups from India’s northeast regions have their camps in Bangladesh, though the Bangladeshi security forces’ have been cracking down on them, Director General of Tripura Police C Balasubramaniam said here on Thursday.
Syria’s declared equipment for producing, mixing and filling chemical weapons has been destroyed, the international watchdog says.
Dhaka: Fifteen seamen were in the hospital on Tuesday after a fire broke out on a Russian nuclear submarine, federal investigators said, contradicting earlier reports that nobody was hurt in Monday’s blaze.
Japan has launched the first in a new generation of space rockets, hoping the design will make missions more affordable.
Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran has urged all to not read too much into media reports that the Indian border guards plan to fly drones along the Bangladesh frontiers.
Russia has asked Syria to put its chemical weapons stockpile under ‘international control’ in a bid to avoid US military strikes and then have them destroyed.
DHAKA: Ahsania Mission is going to receive ‘UNESCO Confucius Literacy Award’ for their outstanding performance in increasing literacy in grassroots level.
NOVO-OGARYOVO – Russian lawmakers will urge the U.S. Congress not to approve military strikes on Syria, the speaker of the upper house of parliament told President Vladimir Putin on Monday.
JOHANNESBURG – Anti-apartheid leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela returned to his home on Sunday where he will continue to receive intensive care after three months in hospital with a lung ailment.
DHAKA: A Saudi newspaper is reporting that Russian resident Vladmir Putin suggested to his Syrian counterpart and ally Bashar Assad that he give up the presidency and leave the country.
Scientists of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) have developed four high yielding varieties of paddy, another remarkable feat in the country’s food security attainment.
A Bangladeshi Buddhist monk who was beaten in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo and remained hospitalised for about a week there succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday. Officials at Colombo National Hospital said the Buddhist monk was in its…
BEIJING – The Chinese government said Tuesday it secured a stronger working relationship with the Bangladeshi military during bilateral talks in Beijing.
Bangladesh has been elected vice-chair of the Commission for South Asia (CSA), United Nations-World Tourism Organisation in the meeting of Regional Commission for South Asia (CSA) held in Zimbabwe on Sunday.
A day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning announced in a statement to “Today” that she identifies as female and wants to be known as Chelsea Manning.
Myanmar’s district police denies two-day clashes between RSO and Myanmar riot police near Myanmar-Bangladesh border.
Speakers at a discussion today said it was a rare example that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman united all the countrymen under an umbrella through a 18-minute historical speech at the Rescourse maidan in Dhaka.
By Kaustubh Kulkarni