DHAKA:  Under fire over rising pollution in Delhi and the lack of a concrete plan to tackle it, the Arvind Kejriwal government has announced that private vehicles with odd and even registration numbers will be allowed on the roads of the capital only on alternate days starting next

DHAKA: Germany's parliament has voted to send military support to the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria.MPs approved the plan for a German non-combat role by 445 votes to 146, reports the BBC.Tornado jets - for reconnaissance - a naval frigate and 1,200

DHAKA: A former Taliban minister has said supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed during a shootout between militants in Quetta though the outlawed group rejected the claim as fabricated.Amir Khan Muttaqi, the minister of information and culture under the erstwhile Taliban regime,

DHAKA: An apparent firebombing of a nightclub in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, has claimed at least 16 lives, security officials report. Earlier reports said 18 people had been killed.The attackers tossed multiple Molotov cocktails inside the establishment located at a hotel in the Agouza

DHAKA: Floodwaters have started receding from parts of the southern Indian city of Chennai, hours after it experienced a respite from rain.More than 7,000 people have been rescued so far, but many are still stranded, reports the BBC.PM Narendra Modi, who travelled to Chennai, has promised

DHAKA: RAF Tornado jets have carried out their first air strikes against so-called Islamic State in Syria, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.Four Tornados took off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus shortly after MPs voted to approve bombing, reports the BBC.The strikes focused on six

DHAKA: At least 14 people were killed and 14 others injured in a shooting in San Bernardino City of Southern California of the USA on Wednesday.There were several hundred people inside the building when the shooting happened and most of them walked out unhurt, reports Xinhua.The identity

DHAKA: Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad says Russia’s involvement in his country’s war has led to significant changes, including the ‘shrinking’ of the Islamic State (IS) group.Russia launched air strikes in late September in support of Assad, Moscow’s ally.Assad told Czech

DHAKA: Pakistan has hanged four men linked to last December’s massacre at an army school which killed more than 150 people, mostly children.The men were sentenced to death by a military court and are the first to be hanged in relation to the attack.Taliban militants stormed the Army

DHAKA: Iraq has said that any deployment of foreign troops on its soil cannot happen without approval of its government.The Iraqi prime minister’s comments came in response to the earlier announcement by Ashton Carter, the US defense secretary, that the US will deploy ‘specialized’

DHAKA: Myanmar's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began talks with the nation's army-backed president on the handover of power Wednesday nearly a month after her opposition party cleaned up at the polls.Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won nearly 80 percent of contested

DHAKA: British MPs will decide later whether to back UK air strikes in Syria against militants from so-called Islamic State.A 10-hour House of Commons debate will culminate in a vote on whether the UK should join the US, France, Russia and others bombing targets in Raqqa, the group's

DHAKA: Flights to and out of Chennai have been cancelled for the day and the airport is shut with water on the runway as the city battles heavy rain of the kind not seen in almost a 100 years. No flights have taken off from or landed in Chennai since 8:30 pm on Tuesday. About 4,000 people

DHAKA: The Lebanese army and Syria’s al-Nusra Front have conducted a long-awaited prisoner swap outside Lebanon’s border town of Arsal, where a group of Lebanese soldiers were kidnapped last year.The deal, brokered by Qatari mediators, entailed the release by al-Nusra Front of 16

DHAKA: India’s government has rejected claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple.India culture minister Mahesh Sharma said the government had not found any evidence to support the claim, reports the BBC.The lawyers filed a petition in a court last year

DHAKA: A total of 888 Iraqis were killed and 1,237 others wounded in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in November across Iraq.The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said in a statement on Tuesday, reports Xinhua.The statement said that a total of 489

DHAKA: Two bombings in different parts of Iraq’s capital Baghdad have struck groups of Shia Muslims taking part in an annual religious pilgrimage, killing at least 15 people and injuring 38 others.Al Jazeera publishes this report on Tuesday.One of the attacks on Monday hit a checkpoint

DHAKA: Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been elected Burkina Faso’s new leader, the second civilian to become president since the West African country won independence in 1960, according to preliminary results released by the country’s electoral commission.The Independent National

DHAKA: Pope Francis has told worshippers in a mosque in the Central African Republic that ‘Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters’.He was speaking to Muslims who had sought shelter in the capital Bangui after nearly three years of violence between Christians and Muslims.The

DHAKA: High-level climate talks have begun in Paris with the goal of signing a long-term deal to reduce global carbon emissions.More than 150 world leaders have converged to launch the two-week talks.Peruvian Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal declared this year’s meeting