DHAKA : Bangladesh’s election chief on Monday rejected calls for a new election after widespread opposition claims of rigging in a weekend vote which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina won by a landslide. The opposition has demanded a rerun, saying Sunday’s election was marred by massive...
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BEIJING : President Xi Jinping on Monday said that China’s economy stayed within a reasonable range in 2018, when delivering a New Year speech. The campaign to prevent and control pollution of air, water and soil was going smoothly. The improvement of the people’s wellbeing speeded...
JAKARTA :The number of injured in the volcano-triggered tsunami along the coast of Sunda Strait in Indonesia jumped significantly to 14,059 from 7,202 reported last Friday, as search and rescue operations continued, the country’s disaster management agency said on Monday.
The tsunami on...
Dhaka, Bangladesh : At least 10 people were killed in election-day clashes in Bangladesh Sunday, after a bloody campaign overshadowed by a crackdown on the opposition by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who is expected to win a historic but controversial fourth term. Three men were shot by police...
DHAKA : Two people were killed in election-related clashes in Bangladesh on Sunday, police said, following a deadly campaign marred by outbreaks of violence. One man died when police opened fire on opposition activists who they say had attacked a polling station in the southern town of...
WASHINGTON : Norman Gimbel, the Oscar and Grammy-winning lyricist behind “Killing Me Softly”, “The Girl From Ipanema” and the theme from iconic sitcom “Happy Days” has died aged 91. His death was announced on Friday by BMI, which described him as “a truly...
SEOUL : South Korea and the United States agreed Friday that a highly symbolic inter-Korean event will be held in North Korea next week as scheduled, Seoul’s top nuclear envoy said. After a “working group” meeting with Washington’s special representative for North Korea...
BEIJING : The use of capital punishment is “declining” in China but abolition is still far away because of popular support for the death penalty, said a judge from the China’s highest court. Beijing carries out more executions each year than any other country, according to human...
MUMBAI : An Indian man released this week after being jailed for six years in Pakistan issued advice on Friday not to follow his example and fall in love on Facebook. Hamid Nehal Ansari illegally entered Pakistan from Afghanistan in 2012 to meet a woman he had fallen for on the social media...
WASHINGTON : Donald Trump and congressional Democrats stood at stark odds Thursday as the president balked at a spending stopgap that contains no border wall funding, leaving the US government on the verge of a Christmastime shutdown. The unpredictable leader’s rejection of a measure that...
