A blogger was hacked to death on Monday in Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, police said. Three people attacked Oyasiqur Rahman Babu using sharp weapons around 9.45 a.m. in Tejgaon industrial area soon after the online activist stepped out of his house, bdnews24.com quoted Tejgaon zone’s Deputy Police Commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarkar as saying. He […]
Mr Srinivasan says 50-over tournament can attract and inspire a new generation of followers to the game The Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Mr Narayanaswami Srinivasan, has hailed the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 as “the most popular in history” and he believes that the 50-over game is in good health following […]
Dozens of grieving relatives of Germanwings plane crash victims arrived in the French Alps on Thursday, brought in on special flights and buses to pay tribute to the 150 lives lost in the tragedy. Two charter planes carrying family members landed in the French city of Marseille early Thursday, where seven buses — many with […]
A court in Dubai has sentenced two Pakistani workers to jail for raping an Indian man after serving him food spiked with liquor, according to a media report. The Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday convicted Pakistani workers, identified only as S.N. and M.S., of raping the 20-year-old Indian victim in September last year, […]
The nightmare of being the mother of a 27-year-old, looking at a relationship through the lens of virtual reality and a journey through Nepal are some of the hand-picked gems IANS is treating its readers to this weekend. Take a look. 1. Book: Simi’s Mum’s Diary: The Daughter of All Battles; Author: Rupa Gulab; Publisher: […]
One person was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb exploded at the Istanbul offices of a Turkish magazine taken to be sympathetic to the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, Efe news agency reported citing Turkish media on Thursday. The explosion on Wednesday night at the offices of Adimlar magazine left a journalist […]
In a shocking revelation, the French prosecutor said on Thursday that the co-pilot of the Germanwings A320 flight deliberately crashed the airliner, killing all 144 passengers and six crew members on board. The action of the first officer, Andreas G. Lubitz, of the crashed Germanwings A320 in the French Alps “can be analysed as his […]
To stem modern day slavery, Britain has implemented a new law under which human traffickers could be punished with life imprisonment, London-based Asian Lite daily reported on Thursday. The maximum jail sentence for traffickers has been increased from 14 years to life imprisonment under the provisions of the Modern Slavery Act, 2015. It allows the […]
An Indian restaurant in Britain was raided by immigration officers and seven workers, all from Bangladesh, were arrested on the charge of visa-related offences, according to media reports. The seven illegal workers were arrested last week from the town of Sandhurst in southeast England’s Berkshire county and face deportation, reported Getreading online on Monday. British […]
An Airbus A320 of a German low-cost airline with 150 people on board crashed on Tuesday in southern France while flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. French President Francois Hollande said no survivors are expected. Germanwings confirmed on Tuesday that its flight 4U9525 met with an accident over the French Alps, Xinhua news agency reported. The […]