FROM UN HEADQUARTER: A number of incidents have taken place in the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York and some of those were informal. Some are as follows:US President Barack Obama met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina three times during current UNGA but none of those

DHAKA: At least 217 people were killed and 350 others were wounded after a 7.7 magnitude earthqauke struck the southwestern province of Balochistan, which also prompted a new island to rise from the sea just off Pakistan`s southern coast, officials said.Home Secretary Asad Gilani told

DHAKA: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says he is prepared to engage in "time-bound and results-oriented" talks on his country`s nuclear programme.He told the UN General Assembly`s annual meeting in New York that sanctions against Iran were "violent".He also welcomed Syria`s acceptance

DHAKA: A strong earthquake of 7.8 magnitude struck the southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday, killing at least 55 people and prompting a new island to rise from the sea just off Pakistan`s southern coast, officials said.Spokesman Frontier Corps (FC) Khan Wasey had earlier said

DHAKA: Kenyan officials said early on Tuesday that their forces were ‘in control’ of a mall in the capital where Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab launched a raid.‘Our forces are combing the mall floor by floor looking for anyone left behind,’ the Ministry of Interior and

DHAKA: Iran’s foreign ministry said Tuesday that no meeting between president Hassan Rohani and his American counterpart Barack Obama was on the agenda at the UN General Assembly.‘Such a meeting is not on the agenda,’ ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham told reporters when asked

DHAKA: Syrian insurgents pressed a new assault in the strategic, heavily-defended southwestern suburbs of Damascus on Tuesday, saying they aimed to break an army blockade of rebel-held areas.Rebels fired mortars at government forces while army shelling hit the suburb of Derayya, the scene

DHAKA: United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki Moon on Tuesday called on states to stop sending weapons to the Syria conflict as the United States and Russia wrangled over destroying Syria’s chemical weapons.‘I appeal to all states to stop fuelling the bloodshed and to end the arms

DHAKA: A strong earthquake of magnitude struck Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday, killing up to 46 people, officials said.Khairjan Baloch, Political Secretary to Chief Minister Balochistan and a former administrator in the worst-affected Awaran district

DHAKA: Russia hopes the UN Security Council will reach agreement this week on a resolution supporting a deal for Syria to abandon its chemical weapons, but there is no guarantee.Russia deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.Ryabkov, speaking in

DHAKA: A meeting between Iran’s top diplomats and world powers at the United Nations this week will start a ‘new era’ in efforts to end the dispute with the West over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme.The Iranian foreign ministry said on Tuesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.It

DHAKA: A strong earthquake of magnitude struck the Dalbandin area in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people.Deputy Commissioner Awaran, Abdul Rasheed Baloch confirmed the death 10 people – all from the province’s far-flung Awaran

DHAKA: A deadly blast rocked south Damascus on Tuesday, state television reported, with a monitoring group putting the death toll from what it said was a car bombing at seven.State television said in a breaking news alert that there had been dead and wounded in the ‘terrorist

DHAKA: Chinese military officials will have to undergo an audit before they can retire or be promoted, state media reported on Tuesday, in the latest measure in the leadership’s campaign against corruption.The audit will encompass officials’ ‘real estate property, their use of

DHAKA: A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck the Dalbandin area in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Tuesday.The US Geological Survey said, reports dawn.com.Balochistan provincial home secretary Asad Gilani confirmed the death of one person and eight injured in Awaran district of

DHAKA: Several people have been killed and wounded in an explosion in the Syrian capital, Damascus.Syrian state TV reports, says the BBC.The state new agency Sana said a ‘terrorist bombing’ attack had taken place in the Tadamon district in the south of the capital.Tadamon has been a

DHAKA: A powerful earthquake of 7.8-magnitude has struck a remote area in south-west Pakistan.The United States Geological Survey says, reports the BBC.It struck at 16:29 local time (11:29 GMT) at a depth of 23km, 145 miles south-east of Dalbandin in Balochistan province, USGS adds.It was

DHAKA: Heavy monsoon rains exacerbated by Typhoon Usagi have pounded parts of Vietnam and Cambodia killing at least 36 people, the authorities said on Tuesday, with many swept to their deaths in floods.Despite not being directly hit by Usagi, the world’s most powerful storm this year,

DHAKA: Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is scheduled to meet with foreign ministers of the six major powers, including US state secretary John Kerry, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday.The agreement was made during a meeting in New

DHAKA: A renegade faction of a Muslim rebel group engaged in peace talks with the Philippine government released 13 hostages on Tuesday after attacking a banana processing plant in the southern Philippines on Monday, sources said.Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF),