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Dhaka, May 3 : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Savar tragedy affirmed that Bangladesh has achieved the capacity to manage a major disaster rescuing thousands of human beings...... read more

New Delhi, Italy's flamboyant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi brought US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Naples' famous silk scarves and told her tales about his childhood when he met her in the aftermath of American cables' dubbing him as a "feckless and ineffective leader" in 2010.... read more

Tens of thousands of low-paid workers took to the streets on May Day to demand higher wages, better benefits and improved working conditions a week after a building collapse in Bangladesh became a grim reminder of the dangers of lax safety regulations in poor countries.... read more

Dhaka, May 2 : Main opposition BNP today said it was ready to sit with the government provided the authorities proposes a dialogue in writing and agree to restore the caretaker system to conduct coming parliament polls.... read more

Islamabad, May 3 The murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail has the potential to impact bilateral relations and authorities must get to the bottom of the affair and punish everyone responsible for his death, the Pakistani media said today.... read more

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan  A U.S. military plane crashed Friday in Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian nation's emergencies ministry said. There was no immediate word on any casualties...... read more

RAWALPINDI: As Taliban bombs curtail campaign rallies, Pakistan’s political parties are ploughing millions of dollars into TV and print adverts to sway voters ahead of next week’s historic polls.
Competition is fierce but it’s a cash market and those with the biggest bucks get the most air time ahead of the histori... read more

Washington, May 4 The US is continuing to recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression, the White House said after the latest jobs report revealed that the unemployment rate for the month of April has dropped to 7.5 per cent, the lowest in four years.... read more