DHAKA: Among the 1.92 lakh graduates who were conferred degrees on Saturday at the 28th convocation of India’s Indira Gandhi National Open University (Ignou), also included Mumbai blast accused Yakub Memon, who was hanged on July 30.Memon was conferred the degree in absentia by the

DHAKA: Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi has issued a decree proposing the cancellation of the country’s deputy president positions and deputy PM role.Abbadi held a meeting on Friday evening with a number of experts and advisers to discuss the administrative and financial reforms

DHAKA: A Rwandan UN peacekeeper in the Central African Republic (CAR) has shot dead four of his colleagues and wounded eight others at their base before being gunned down himself.Military sources have said, Al Jazeera publishes this report on Sunday.The UN said it was opening an

DHAKA:  Singapore is holding nationwide events to mark 50 years since it became an independent state.Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend an outdoor parade, complete with flybys by the air force and a Singapore Airlines A380 airliner reports bbc.com.Singaporeans are also

DHAKA: The Japanese city of Nagasaki is marking 70 years since the dropping of an atomic bomb by the United States.A ceremony there will observe a minute's silence, followed by speeches by the Nagasaki mayor and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.A cathedral that was destroyed by the bomb but

DHAKA: Hamas called on the Palestinians to initiate wide-scale attacks on West Bank settlers and to start conflict with Israel following the death of Sa’ad Dawabhse in a hospital in Beersheba on Saturday.Dawabshe, 32, died after most of his body was burned in an arson attack on his home

DHAKA: The father of the Palestinian 18-month-old baby boy who died in last week’s settler arson attack in the occupied West Bank has also died from his wounds.Sa’ad Dawabsheh, the father of Ali, died early on Saturday, his brother told Al Jazeera.The 32-year-old died in Soroka

DHAKA: Powerful Typhoon Soudelor is battering Taiwan with strong winds and heavy rain, leaving at least four people dead.The storm - with winds of more than 230km/h (142mph) - made landfall on the eastern coast early on Saturday and is now moving across the island, reports bbc.comIt is

DHAKA: At least 35 people have died and hundreds more have been wounded in separate bomb attacks over the last 24 hours in the Afghan capital Kabul.A suicide bomber blew himself up near the city's police academy on Friday evening, killing about 20 recruits, reports bbc.com.A short while

DHAKA: North Korea is to switch to a new time zone to mark its liberation from the Japanese at the end of World War Two, says state media.North Korea is currently in the same time zone as South Korea and Japan, which are nine hours ahead of GMT, reports BBC.But Pyongyang Time will see the

DHAKA: Persistent eruptions from Indonesia's Mount Raung continue to bring bad news for Bali-bound travellers.Virgin Australia and Jetstar grounded flights again on Friday as forecasters warned westerly winds would send dangerous ash clouds over Denpasar.The ash is expected to hang over

DHAKA: France is to conduct air, land and sea searches in and around the island of Reunion in the hope of finding more debris which could be linked to MH370.Malaysia said on Thursday that a wing section found on the French Indian Ocean island definitely came from the doomed Malaysia

DHAKA: At least seven people have been killed and more than 100 injured by a powerful car bomb in the Afghan capital Kabul early on Friday morning, said health officials.Police say that the bomb went off in the Shah Shahid area of the city, BBC reported.Injured people including children

DHAKA: Egypt has opened a major expansion of the Suez Canal, which deepens the main waterway and provides ships with a 35km channel parallel to it.At the inauguration, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi welcomed foreign leaders aboard a historic yacht as helicopters and fighter jets

DHAKA: At least 17 members of the security forces have been killed in suicide attack on mosque in Saudi Arabia’s southwest.Saudi state TV says, reports Al Jazeera.Thursday’s attack in a mosque belonging to the emergency forces in the city of Abha in Aseer province, near the Yemeni

DHAKA: An Afghan official says a military helicopter crashed in the country's south, killing 17 people, including five pilots.Mirwais Noorzai, the chief of police in Zabul province, says the Afghan National Army helicopter crashed in a remote region of the province late Thursday morning,

DHAKA: President Barack Obama is pushing to seal the Iran nuclear deal, accusing opponents of ‘selling a fantasy’.In a speech at a Washington DC university he said the agreement is publicly supported by every country in the world, except for Israel.He described a forthcoming

DHAKA: At least six people, including three police officers, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan.A lorry filled with explosives was detonated outside a police compound in Puli Alam, capital of Logar province, officials said, reports the BBC.The Taliban said it

DHAKA: A NASA camera aboard its Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured the "Dark side of the moon," fully illuminated.The stunning images were captured from nearly 1.6 lakh km away, as the moon moved in front of the sun-lit side of the Earth last month, NDTV

DHAKA:  US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday said the 70th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima underscored the importance of a deal reached on Iran’s nuclear programme last month.Ceremonies were held in Hiroshima on Friday to mark the