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Dhaka hostage crisis ends with 20 hostages, 6 terrorists dead Twenty foreigners were brutally hacked to death by   ISIS   militants inside a restaurant popular with expatriates here in the high-security diplomatic zone before commandos launched an assault today killing six attackers and capturing one alive, ending Bangladesh's worst terror attack. Director of Military Operations Brigadier General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury said the militants slaughtered 20 hostages before the joint operation led by the armed forces began. Most of those killed were found with their throat slit, he added. "Army Para commando Unit-1 led the operation and killed six terrorists within 13 minutes," Chowdhury told reporters. The mission codenamed 'Operation Thunderbolt' was launched after the Prime Minister ordered the army to intervene to end the hostage crisis, he said. All 20 hostages killed were foreigners, with most being Italian or Japanese. Two senior police officers we...

4000 people rendered homeless due to flood in Tripura Around 4,000 people from 800 families were rendered homeless due to flood at Dharmanagar, the headquarters of North  Tripura  district, while the arterial Assam-Agartala National Highway remained water logged cutting the state off from the rest of the country. Due to incessant rain since Tuesday night, entire Dharmanagar town and its periphery were waterlogged and 4000 people took shelter in five relief camps, Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Pradip Acharya told reporters. He said 10 boats were pressed into service to rescue the people in the affected areas and added that the water had started receding. Acharya said neighbouring Karimganj district in Assam was also affected by the flood and no vehicles could enter Dharmanagar from that side since yesterday and no long-distance buses plied from Dharmanagar. Tripura was cut-off from the rest of the country as the Assam-Agartal...

At least two people were killed and over 30 injured as a powerful  earthquake measuring 6.8  on the Richter Scale rocked Manipur and other north eastern states early today. “Public and private properties have been damaged. The district administration is on the job to rescue trapped persons,” Inspector General of Police Clay Khongsai said. Khongsai said they were yet to receive any report from Tamenglong district. Meanwhile, social network giant Facebook has activated its ‘Mark As Safe’ feature that allows people in the affected area to mark themselves as out of any danger on the social media platform.  According to the regional seismological centre in Meghalaya, an earthquake of moderate intensity rocked India’s northeastern states and adjoining Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan Monday morning. Latest News Mumbai, Delhi in world’s top-30 'super cities’     Our children must breathe cleaner city air: Modi   Metro’s phase III set to transfo...