BNP yesterday urged the government to take steps for holding a participatory general election after releasing its chairperson Khaleda Zia and other party leaders from jail, reports UNB. The party's senior leaders, led by its standing committee members, on behalf of the party and its chairperson…

A total of 64 people, many of them children, perished in a fire that ravaged a busy shopping mall in an industrial city in Siberia, officials said yesterday…

Indian PM Narendra Modi's official mobile application has been criticised for sending personal user data to a third party without their consent, reports BBC from New Delhi. A security researcher had tweeted that the app was sending personal user data to a third-party domain that was traced to a…

Land degradation will unleash a mass migration of at least 50 million people by 2050 -- as many as 700 million unless humans stop depleting the life-giving resource, dozens of scientists warned yesterday, reports AFP from Medellin, Columbia. Already, land decay caused by unsustainable farming, mining,…