DHAKA: India and Pakistan have held high-level talks, four months after an earlier postponement.Sunday’s meeting in the Thai capital, Bangkok, was described as ‘candid, cordial and constructive,’ the BBC publishes this report on Monday.Although Indian PM Narendra Modi invited his

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has made a rare Oval Office address after the San Bernardino shootings that left 14 dead.He said the killings were "an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people", reports the BB.But "freedom is more powerful than fear," said President Obama,

DHAKA: France's far-right National Front (FN) appears to have made big gains in the first round of regional elections, estimates show.They put the FN ahead in at least six of 13 regions in mainland France, reports the BBC.The elections are the first electoral test since last month's Paris

DHAKA: In an attempt to urge a congregation of Syrian Jews to empathize with the plight of Muslims refugees currently fleeing their common homeland.New York mayor Bill de Blasio on Saturday compared the flocks of Syrians currently leaving their embattled country with Jews escaping the

DHAKA: Militant group Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for an explosion which killed the governor of Yemen’s southern Aden province on Sunday.In a statement posted on a messaging service, the group said it detonated an explosives-laden car as Jaafar Mohammed Saad’s convoy was

DHAKA: A collision between a commuter train and a minibus on a level crossing in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sunday killed at least 14 people and injured several others, an official said."So far we heard the number of fatalities has reached 14 people," said a transport ministry

DHAKA: The governor of the southern Yemeni city of Aden has been killed in a large explosion, security sources say.A convoy carrying Jaafar Mohammed Saad was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in the Tawahi area of the port city.Media reports said, according to the BBC.Houthi rebels based

DHAKA: Three suicide attacks have hit an island on Lake Chad, killing at least 27 people.Security sources have said, reports the BBC.The blasts, on the island of Koulfoua on the Chadian side of the lake, struck a weekly market, the sources said.No group has said it was behind the attacks,

DHAKA: France is set to vote in the first round of regional elections, the first electoral challenge since the Paris attacks, which killed 130 people.The elections are viewed as a test of public support for the government's response to the attacks on 13 November, reports the BBC.The

DHAKA: The capital of India has been put on high alert after Delhi Police registered an FIR earlier this week regarding a possible "terror strike" by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, a top police officer said in New Delhi Sunday.Quoting IANS, the NDTV.com reported the

DHAKA: A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck in the southern Indian Ocean on Saturday (Dec 5), but there was a low likelihood of casualties and damage, US seismologists said.The shallow tremor struck at 6.24am (2224 GMT Friday), some 1,020km (634 miles) east-northeast of Heard Island

DHAKA: The Iraqi government has demanded that Turkey withdraw troops it sent to an area near the northern city of Mosul.The move was "serious breach of Iraqi sovereignty" Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office said in a statement, reports the BBC.About 150 Turkish soldiers have been

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