New Delhi hit by rare summer air pollution alert

New Delhi suffered a rare summer air pollution alert yesterday as dust storms and heat over northern India took smog to hazardous
13 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Lanka under night curfew after anti-Muslim riots

Sri Lanka imposed a nationwide night curfew yesterday, after anti-Muslim riots spread to at least three districts just north of the capital in a violent new backlash against the Easter suicide bombings.
13 May 2019, 18:00 PM

‘No laughing matter’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been roundly mocked for suggesting that radars are affected by clouds and boasting that he sent an email attachment years before the technology to do so was invented.
13 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Biman resumes Dhaka-Delhi flights

Biman Bangladesh Airlines resumes Dhaka-Delhi direct flights.
13 May 2019, 12:06 PM

Lanka town under curfew after anti-Muslim attacks

Sri Lankan troops in a northern town fired shots into the air and police imposed a curfew yesterday after mobs attacked a mosque, in renewed religion tensions in the wake of the Easter terror attacks.
12 May 2019, 18:00 PM

A bid to ‘sabotage prosperity’ of Pak

An attack on a luxury hotel in the southwestern city of Gwadar was a bid to “sabotage prosperity”, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan said yesterday, as police confirmed all the attackers had been killed.
12 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Record 378 people eye to summit Everest this year

The tented city at the foot of Mount Everest is bustling as mountaineers brace for potentially the busiest year yet on the world’s highest
11 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Gunmen storm luxury hotel

At least one person has been killed after three gunmen stormed a five-star hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Gwadar, the centrepiece of a multi-billion dollar Chinese infrastructure project, the military said yesterday.
11 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Gunmen kill guard in Pakistan hotel attack

At least one person has been killed after three gunmen stormed a five-star hotel in the southwestern Pakistani city of Gwadar, the centrepiece of a multi-billion dollar Chinese infrastructure project, the military says.
11 May 2019, 14:01 PM

Pak Christian Asia Bibi now in Canada

After 10 years of political turmoil, assassinations and violent demonstrations, Asia Bibi’s exit from Pakistan was met largely with silence, as the country appeared to seek a quiet close to a turbulent chapter.
9 May 2019, 19:58 PM

In Bhutan, PM is a doc on Saturdays

It’s Saturday in Bhutan and Lotay Tshering has just completed urinary bladder repair surgery on a patient at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital.
9 May 2019, 19:54 PM

Ex-Pak PM returns to jail after medical treatment

Pakistani former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned to prison on Wednesday to complete a sentence for corruption after being released
9 May 2019, 19:48 PM

Indian SC dismisses claim Rahul Gandhi is secret Brit

India’s top court yesterday threw out a petition seeking to bar Rahul Gandhi from contesting the ongoing general election over claims he
9 May 2019, 19:46 PM

Lanka Catholic schools to reopen after attacks

Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church yesterday announced it will reopen its schools next week for the first time since Easter Sunday bombings
9 May 2019, 19:44 PM

China, India boost global booze binge: study

The world consumed ten percent more alcohol per adult in 2017 than in 1990, due in large part to heavier and more widespread drinking
8 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Asia Bibi leaves Pakistan

Asia Bibi, the Christian woman at the centre of a decade-long blasphemy row, has left Pakistan, local media said yesterday, months after her death sentence was overturned to mass protests by Islamist hardliners.
8 May 2019, 18:00 PM

Shooting of film on Bangabandhu likely to begin in November

Legendary filmmaker Shyam Benegal says he plans to start shooting of a film on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by November this year expecting to get it released before the end of ‘Mujib Year 2020-21’.
8 May 2019, 07:06 AM

All suspects in Sri Lanka bombings arrested or dead: Acting police chief

All suspected plotters and those directly linked to Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings have either been arrested or are dead, the country's acting police chief says.
7 May 2019, 06:23 AM

Lankan Catholics turn to TV mass

Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church will televise a private Sunday mass after cancelling regular services over fears of a repeat of Easter suicide bombings that killed 257 people, a spokesman said.
4 May 2019, 18:00 PM

In photos: Bracing for Fani

The very severe cyclonic storm Fani is about to reach Bangladesh through Khulna region and its approach is already being felt from capital Dhaka.
3 May 2019, 12:55 PM