DHAKA: Taking a major step, India on Tuesday (September 27) pulled out of the SAARC summit to be held in November in Islamabad. India external affairs ministry issued a statement, saying, “India has conveyed to current SAARC Chair Nepal that increasing cross-border terrorist attacks

DHAKA: 14 people were killed and 13 others injured was a bus carrying people from a small town in northern Nepal crashed on a narrow mountain road on Tuesday (September 27). The bus was heading to Kintang, a remote hamlet up in Nepal's rugged hills from Dhadingbeshi, the main

DHAKA: The US has put sanctions on a Chinese firm and four executives over allegedly helping North Korea evade sanctions. Dandong Hongxiang is accused of acting on behalf of a North Korean bank that is on a UN sanctions list to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. The

DHAKA: The US has put sanctions on a Chinese firm and four executives over allegedly helping North Korea evade sanctions. Dandong Hongxiang is accused of acting on behalf of a North Korean bank that is on a UN sanctions list to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. The

DHAKA: The first Presidential TV debate between Democrat runner Hillary Clinton and Republican runner Donald Trump ended at Hofstra University auditorium in New York. The 90-minute debate was “jam-packed”, reports CNN. The first presidential debate kicked off as Clinton and

The Colombian government and left-wing Farc rebels have signed a historic agreement that formally brings an end to 52 years of civil war. The rebel leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, apologized to “all the victims of the conflict” and was greeted by cheers and applause,

DHAKA: A petition signed by more than 14,000 Saudi women calling for an end to the country’s male guardianship system has been handed to the government. Women must have the consent of a male guardian to travel abroad, and often need permission to work or study. Support for the

DHAKA: A leading Pakistani Taliban commander has been killed by special forces in eastern Afghanistan, the militants say. Azam Tariq died in Paktika province, near Pakistan’s border. His son and nine others were also reported killed, says the BBC. Tariq was a former Pakistani

DHAKA: Kolkata Police nabbed six members of an extremist organization Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from West Bengal and Assam) on Monday (September 26). Four out of the six arrested were wanted in the 2014 Khagragarh blast case. Anwar Hussain Farooq, the outfit’s West Bengal

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said the peace deal with the Farc rebel group will boost economic growth and will enable the country to rebuild its social fabric. “War is always more costly than peace,” he said in an interview with the BBC. Santos and Farc leader

DHAKA: Gabonese opposition leader Jean Ping has said a constitution court ruling which upheld President Ali Bongo’s election victory was “unjust”. Ping called for his supporters to “remain vigilant and mobilized”. There have been concerns about violent protests following the

DHAKA: A suspect sought over a fatal gun attack at a shopping centre in Washington State on Friday (September 23) has been captured. Police said details of the arrest have not been revealed although media reports say it took place in Oak Harbor, south-west of Burlington where the

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was directly addressing the people of Pakistan as he sent across a strong message against the “export of terrorism” from that country, vowing that “India will never forget the Uri attack.” The minister made the remarks while

DHAKA: China is set to start operating the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope, enabling astronomers to probe farther and darker regions of space for the faintest signs of life. Scheduled to be launched on Sunday (September 25), the science mega-project is named after its

DHAKA: A powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Fiji shortly after another hit off Tonga but there was no threat of a tsunami. The US seismologists said this which was reported by the Reliefweb.int. The offshore quake occurred at 9:28 am (2128 GMT Saturday), centered around

DHAKA: Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, have released officer bodycam and dashcam footage of a controversial shooting of a black man on Tuesday (September 20). They also released pictures of a handgun and marijuana that police say Keith Lamont Scott possessed. Calls for the

DHAKA: Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as Labour leader, comfortably defeating his challenger Owen Smith. He won 61.8% of the vote, a larger margin of victory than last year, reports the BBC. He vowed to bring Labour back together, saying “we have much more in common than

DHAKA: South Korean defense minister has admitted that they have special troops ready if they feel threatened by North Korean boss Kim Jong Un. Han Min-koo admitted to the question in the national assembly last week of whether S. Korea has team ready to take out their neighboring

At least 11 people have been killed in Iraq after attackers hit a police checkpoint and then detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the city of Tikrit. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the city, which is 150km north of Baghdad, reports Al Jazeera.

DHAKA: Gabon’s constitutional court has upheld President Ali Bongo’s election victory, rejecting opposition calls for a recount. There have been fears that such a decision could trigger fresh violence. The government said it will hold opposition leader Jean Ping responsible if