A Turkish cargo plane crashed into a village near Kyrgyzstan’s main airport yesterday, killing at least 37 people and destroying houses after attempting to land in thick fog, authorities said, reports AFP from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. A massive section of the aircraft’s tail billowed smoke as…

Shifting from her earlier tough stance on the issue of call drops, Tarana Halim, state minister for post and telecommunications, yesterday sided with the telecom operators.  Halim yesterday held a meeting with the chief executive officers (CEOs) of the mobile telecom operators at the Secretariat.…

A Brahmanbaria court yesterday granted interim bail to Rasraj Das, who was arrested in a case filed under the Information and Communication Technology Act over the attack on Hindu community in Nasirnagar, reports UNB. Md Ismail Hossain, Judge of Brahmanbaria District and Sessions Judge's court passed…

Southeast Asia’s first heart transplant patient and one of the world’s longest surviving cases has died, his family said yesterday, more than 31 years after his operation, reports AFP from Singapore. Singaporean Seah Chiang Nee, a former newspaper editor, died aged 76 in a local hospital…

The increase of Israeli settlements has “gotten so substantial” that it is inhibiting the possibility for an “effective, contiguous Palestinian state,” President Barack Obama said Sunday, in his final interview as president, reports AP from Washington. Speaking to CBS’…