Helpline launched for RMG workers.

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments on Sunday launched a telephone helpline for the readymade garment workers so that they could raise any concern about possible fire,

50 die after bus plunges off road in southern Brazil.

Brazilian authorities on Sunday put the death toll at 50 after a bus carrying worshipers to a religious event plummeted into a ravine on Saturday.The bus veered out of a curve and plunged more than 1,100 feet in the rural area of Serra Dona Francisca,

Ali Zafar: World needs to help us out of extremist darkness.

December 16, 2014 was a dark day, not just in our nation's history, but the world's.Young innocent children were brutally massacred in a school in Peshawar along with their teachers.

Protesters demand President's ouster in Brazil, decry corruption.

Demonstrators took to the streets across Brazil on Sunday, protesting corruption and demanding the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff.Her administration is struggling amid a weak economy.........

Govt swallows Tk 265cr losses by giving benefits to IGWs.

The government has suffered a revenue loss of around Tk 265 crore in five months after it cut the rate for international call termination by the international gateway (IGW) operators patronising the politically licensed IGW operators,

Cop kills schoolboy after abduction.

Police recovered the decomposed body of a schoolboy from a police constable’s house in Sylhet city on Saturday night, three days after he was kidnapped for ransom.

Suicide bombings in Christian area of Pakistani city kill at least 14 people.

Suicide bombers attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan on Sunday, setting off two blasts that killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, officials said.

Police tells HC Salahuddin disappeared on his own.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Sunday told the High Court that Bangladesh Nationalist Party joint secretary-general Salah Uddin Ahmed had disappeared on his own and no law enforcement agency had arrested him.

Obama may not reduce troops in Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama is considering whether to scrap his drawdown plan to reduce U.S. forces in Afghanistan to 5,500 troops by the end of this year.A senior administration official said Saturday...

Cleanup begins in Vanuatu after cyclone batters islands.

The mayhem of Tropical Cyclone Pam, one of the most powerful storms ever to make landfall, is gone, but the misery it left behind in the islands of Vanuatu is just becoming apparent.Aid workers in the capital of Port Vila...