DHAKA: Twenty red sanders smugglers were killed in an alleged encounter with a joint team of special police and forest personnel in the Seshachalam forests of Chittoor district in India’s Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of Tuesday.The incident took place at Etagunta and Vacchinodu

DHAKA: The suspected mass graves of up to 1,700 captured Iraqi soldiers killed by the Islamic State group (IS) have been found in the city of Tikrit.The sites are near the former US Army base, Camp Speicher, reports BBC on Tuesday.Iraqi forensic teams have begun to excavate 12 graves

DHAKA: The United States and the Philippines will double the size of their annual war games this month, with some exercises to be staged close to a South China Sea flashpoint.The Filipino military said Monday, reports The Straits Times.The 10-day exercises between the long-time allies

DHAKA:Although China’s economic growth has slowed somewhat over the past year, the number of super-rich people has expanded to a record high.The recently released China Ultra High Net Wealth Report 2014-2015 said, reports The Straits Times.The number of people from the Chinese mainland

DHAKA: Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas says he has refused to accept hundreds of millions of dollars of tax revenues unfrozen by Israel.Abbas says he returned the money because Israel deducted a third to pay for what it called utility bills.He has threatened to take Israel to the

DHAKA: Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebels have made more gains in the city of Aden, despite air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition.Fighting in the southern city has intensified as rebels and forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi battle for control.Countries including China have stepped

DHAKA: Some 1,500 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy in five different boats were rescued in one day.Italian coastguards said Sunday, reports the NDTV.Four coastguard vessels and an Italian navy ship intervened Saturday to save three large boats carrying migrants off the

DHAKA: Leaders of central and west African states will hold a summit on Wednesday to try to draw up a joint strategy against Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants.A statement from organizers said Sunday, reports The Straits Times.The April 8 summit will be the first of its kind since

DHAKA: Yemeni Shia rebels captured the provincial government headquarters in Aden on Sunday, pushing into new areas of the battleground southern city despite a Saudi-led air campaign.A local official said, reports The Straits Times.The rebel forces advanced during the night to reach the

DHAKA: The United Nations Security Council is considering Russia’s call for a pause in Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen.The council’s president, Dina Kawar, who is also Jordan’s UN ambassador, said members needed time to ‘reflect on the proposal’.The air strikes against Houthi

DHAKA: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s chief of staff and a former ambassador to the United States, who was also a senior member of Najib’s party, were among six people killed in a helicopter crash near the capital.The officials said on Sunday which reports the Jerusalem

DHAKA: Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 88, appeared in public ‘full of vitality’ for the first time in more than a year on Monday, greeting a delegation of Venezuelans.It was his first known appearance outside his home since Cuba in December agreed to normalize relations with the

DHAKA: The Red Cross has called for a 24-hour ceasefire in Yemen to bring in desperately needed medical supplies after fierce fighting.It says medical teams and rescuers must access Aden, a stronghold of those loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, or more civilians will die.Fighting

DHAKA: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday declared three days of national mourning during which the country’s flag shall fly at half-mast, following Thursday’s Garissa terror attack.Kenyatta said here that Kenya is in a profound state of mourning following the heinous attack

DHAKA: The Indian Navy evacuated 441 people, including a pregnant woman and children, from the Port of Aden in strife-torn Yemen in almost ‘war-like conditions’ on Saturday.“Absolute tough environment at Aden….Evacuation of stranded Indians were carried out in almost war-like

DHAKA: Books on Islam are selling out in France after deadly extremist attacks in the capital raised uncomfortable questions about Europe’s fastest-growing religion.A special magazine supplement focused on the Quran has flown off the shelves, and shops are selling more books on Islam

DHAKA: Kenyan police have arrested five men in connection with the university massacre of 148 people by Somalia’s Shebab Islamists, the interior ministry said Saturday, including suspected masterminds of the attack.‘Five people have been arrested, they are in custody and under

DHAKA: Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is set to expand his council of ministers to include a key leader from the restive Kashmir region, sources said, as he looks to win the support of allies to push economic reforms through parliament.Mehbooba Mufti, daughter of Jammu and Kashmir

DHAKA: Loyalists of ousted Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi have pushed back Shia Houthi rebels in the southern city of Aden.Officials say, reports the BBC.The Hadi loyalists have been aided by air drops of arms and communications equipment from a Saudi-led coalition that is also

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama and Cuban counterpart Raul Castro will have an ‘interaction’ when they attend next week’s Summit of the Americas in Panama.A US official said Friday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Saturday.It will be the first between the two