Seven ethnic Rakhine Buddhists died after Myanmar police opened fire on a crowd trying to seize a government office, officials said yesterday, in fresh violence in a febrile state already scarred by ethnic and religious hatred, reports AFP from Yangon. The incident unfurled as around 5,000 Buddhists…

The High Court (HC) yesterday directed Dhaka University (DU) authorities to take necessary steps within six months to hold the Dhaka University Central Student’s Union (DUCSU) elections. The HC bench also directed the home ministry to provide support to DU authorities to hold the polls. The DUCSU…

The central committee of ruling Awami League yesterday summoned lawmaker Shamim Osman and Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy over Tuesday's clash in Narayanganj that injured 50 people, reports UNB. A central leader of Awami League confirmed the matter but declined to specify the exact time and place of the…

Myanmar has sent a list containing names of more than 1,300 Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) “terrorist members” to Bangladesh, reports UNB. It was done at the 4th Myanmar-Bangladesh Central-Level Meeting on Border Security and Law Enforcement Cooperation held in Naypyidaw on 14 November…

North and South Korea have agreed to march together under a single "unified Korea" flag at next month's Winter Olympics in the South, reports BBC. They also agreed to field a joint women's ice hockey team in rare talks at the truce village of Panmunjom. These are the first high-level…

The thermometer in a remote Siberian village known as the coldest inhabited place on earth has broken as temperatures plunged to near-record depths, reports…