Dhaka (IANS): Bangladesh Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said she is confident about winning the 11th parliamentary election.
In her reactions after casting vote at the Dhaka City College centre on Sunday morning,…
Manila (IANS): A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Davao Oriental province in the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
No damage has been reported…
New York (IANS) America's oldest World War II veteran and the oldest man in the country, Richard Overton, has died. He was 112, his family said.
He died on Thursday, the CNN reported.
He was hospitalized with…
Jakarta (IANS): All flights around Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano have been re-routed and the alert level has been raised to the second-highest possible after a series of eruptions spewed out lava.
A five-kilometre exclusion zone…
Jakarta (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Wednesday resumed the search for 154 people missing after a tsunami hit the Sunda Strait coasts as the country commemorates the anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that killed around 230,000…
Lhasa (IANS): A 5.8-magnitude quake hit Xigaze city in Tibet autonomous region early on Monday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC). No casualties have been reported.
The epicentre was Xaitongmoin county as the quake struck…
Jakarta (IANS): At least 43 people have been killed and 584 injured after a tsunami hit the coast around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, officials said.
The country's disaster management agency says two people are missing, and hundreds of…
Jakarta (IANS): At least 168 people have been killed and 745 injured after a tsunami hit the coast on Indonesia's Sunda Strait, government officials said on Sunday.
There was no warning of the advancing wave that struck on Saturday around…
Washington (IANS) With funding for roughly a quarter of the US government, including appropriations for the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice expiring at midnight, a partial shutdown of the federal administration began on Saturday…
Beijing (IANS) Chinese State Councillor and Minister of National Defence Wei Fenghe has met Deputy Defence Minister of Russia and Chief of Main Directorate for Political-Military Affairs of the Russian Armed Forces Andrey Kartapolov in Beijing.