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Four killed, 19 trapped in Philippine hotel fire
Four people were killed and 19 feared trapped by a major hotel fire in the Philippine capital Manila yesterday, with
18 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Pak firing kills five family members
Five members of a single family were killed yesterday when a mortar bomb fired by Pakistani soldiers landed on their
18 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Abe's support sliding: poll
A majority of Japanese believe Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bears some responsibility for altered documents at the centre
18 March 2018, 18:00 PM
'Go back to paper ballots'
Electronic voting machines, first introduced in state elections two decades ago, should be dumped and India should
17 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Mass arrests as activists defy emergency
Maldivian authorities arrested more than 140 activists who defied a ban on rallies and demonstrated against a state
17 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Xi gets second term
China's rubber-stamp parliament unanimously handed President Xi Jinping a second term yesterday and elevated his
17 March 2018, 18:00 PM
US-Bangla plane crash: List of bodies identified
A total of 25 victims, including 14 Bangladeshis, who died in the US-Bangla Airlines aircraft crash in Kathmandu of Nepal are identified.
17 March 2018, 13:02 PM
Experts from Bangladesh, Nepal, Canada to decide where black box will be decoded
A joint-team of experts will decide the place where the black box of the crashed US-Bangla aircraft will be decoded, the chief of Nepalese investigation team says.
17 March 2018, 06:28 AM
US-Bangla plane crash: Nepal endorses condolence motion
Four days after the US-Bangla aircraft crash, the House of Representatives in Nepal endorses a condolence motion in remembrance of the deceased.
17 March 2018, 04:57 AM
With Rohingya gone, Myanmar's ethnic Rakhine seek Muslim-free 'buffer zone'
Buddhist flags hang limply from bamboo poles at the entrance to Koe Tan Kauk, a "model" village for ethnic Rakhine migrants shuttled north to repopulate an area once dominated by Rohingya Muslims.
16 March 2018, 07:04 AM
US-Bangla plane crash: 3 survivors return, 3 more might return Sunday
Three Bangladeshi survivors of the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash have returned home, leaving behind the languished land of Nepal that snapped their life with pain of loss and trauma. And, one of them does not even know that her child and husband have left the land of the living.
16 March 2018, 05:37 AM
US-Bangla plane crash: Families may miss out on fair compensation
Families of the victims of US-Bangla Airline Flight 211, which crashed while trying to land at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Monday, are unlikely to receive a reasonable amount of compensation due to delays by Nepal and Bangladesh in signing the Montreal Convention 1999.
16 March 2018, 05:02 AM
'Once hard ice melts'
China's President Xi Jinping offered encouragement for South Korea's initiative to nurture peaceful engagement with North Korea, and
15 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Australia eyes visas for SA white farmers
Australia's conservative government is considering fast-tracking visas for white South African farmers so they can flee their "horrific
15 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Suicide bombing kills 9 in Pakistan's Lahore: Officials
At least nine people are killed and 20 wounded late Wednesday when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a police check-post in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, officials say.
15 March 2018, 09:16 AM
Doctors to conduct toxicology tests on crew members
Doctors are conducting toxicology tests on crew members of US-Bangla Airlines aircraft that crashed at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) on Monday.
15 March 2018, 04:37 AM
Govt declares mourning day tomorrow
The government declares to observe mourning day on Thursday following the casualties in the US-Bangla Airlines plane crash in Kathmandu, Nepal.
14 March 2018, 06:19 AM
US-Bangla plane crash: What caused it?
Fifty-one people die when a US-Bangla Airlines plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on “abnormal” landing at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). Does faulty communication or technical malfunction cause the crash of Flight Bangla Star 211 at Kathmandu’s TIA?
14 March 2018, 04:39 AM
US-Bangla aircraft crash: 4 injured victims ‘out of danger’, another released
Four injured persons, who were rescued and later admitted to the Dhapasi-based Grande International Hospital following the US-Bangla aircraft crash, are said to be out of danger.
13 March 2018, 13:19 PM
US-Bangla plane crash death toll now 51
Two more injured passengers of Monday’s US-Bangla plane crash in Kathmandu succumb to injuries, taking the death toll to 51.
13 March 2018, 11:22 AM