DHAKA: Pakistan and China have agreed on the need for maintaining strategic balance in South Asia.The decision came after the discussion of top officials from both sides on bilateral and regional issues during Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi’s visit here, reports the Times of

DHAKA: Ukraine’s president has said a truce agreed with pro-Russian rebels in the east must be honored, as he ordered the army to stop fighting.Petro Poroshenko also warned the rebels against continuing attacks on the besieged strategic town of Debaltseve.Fighting appeared to have

DHAKA: Bahraini police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Shia protesters who took to the streets Saturday on the fourth anniversary of an uprising that deeply divided the key US ally. Police deployed heavily as men and women carrying Bahrain’s red and white flag alongside

DHAKA: Myanmar rebels Saturday said the national army had launched fresh air strikes following the government’s rare admission that dozens of its soldiers had died in a dramatic resurgence of conflict in a remote region bordering China.Unrest in Kokang, Shan State, which erupted on

DHAKA: AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday took oath as the eighth chief minister of Delhi at the Ramlila Ground.He took the oath exactly a year after he quit from the post on the lokpal issue.After taking oath, Kejriwal addressed a massive crowd, unveiling the priorities of his

DHAKA: Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday will be sworn in as Delhi’s new chief minister along with six ministers who make up what is possibly India’s youngest cabinet with an average age less than 40.Kejriwal is likely to keep the finance, water and power ministries, which are central

DHAKA: Iran’s supreme leader has sent a secret but noncommittal letter to United States President Barack Obama in response to American overtures, amid talks to strike a nuclear accord.The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Saturday.The

DHAKA: Arvind Kejriwal will take oath as Delhi’s chief minister at around Saturday noon at the Ramlila grounds, a sprawling public park which has been prepared for the big event.Everyone is invited, reports NDTV.Kejriwal has recited poetry in radio ads to invite Delhi’s aam aadmi

DHAKA: Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohammed have left prison in Egypt following their release on bail. They spent more than a year behind bars. On Thursday a court ordered their release pending a retrial this month, reports The BBC. According to the report, they are

DHAKA: At least 11 people have died after three coaches of a train derailed in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, railway officials say.The accident took place near Anekal, about 40km (25 miles) from the state capital, Bangalore, on Friday morning, reports bbc.com.Officials said

DHAKA: Despite a peace deal and a looming cease-fire deadline, Ukraine said Friday that eight soldiers were killed and 34 wounded overnight. Vladislav Seleznyov, spokesman for the Ukrainian army general staff, said in comments that much of the fighting had taken place in Debaltseve, a

DHAKA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised US President Barack Obama for his silence over the murder of three Muslim students in the US.He said politicians were responsible for events in their countries and had to clarify their stance over them, reports The

DHAKA: Jaycee Chan, the son of movie star Jackie Chan, has been released after being jailed for six months in China for a drug offence.He was detained in August last year after a police raid on his home. He had tested positive for marijuana and was caught with 100g of the drug,

DHAKA: At least 18 people were killed, dozens injured as three militants have attacked a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Peshawar with guns and grenades on Friday.  Police and the gunmen exchanged gunfire at the mosque in Peshawar’s wealthy Hayatabad district, reports the BBC.

DHAKA: Nearly 50 soldiers have been killed in a week of fighting between government troops and Kokang ethnic rebels in Myanmar.The Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said air strikes had been used in the response to the flare-up in Shan state, near the Chinese border.The BBC’s

DHAKA: David Carr, who wrote about media as it intersects with business, culture and government in his Media Equation column for The New York Times, die at the office on Thursday night local time.He was 58.Several employees of the paper tweeted about Carr's death, and the NYT published

DHAKA: About 143 whales are stranded on Farewell Spit in New Zealand’s (NZ) Golden Bay, report The Guardian on Friday.The NZ Department of Conservation has staff at the scene and has called Project Jonah members in the region to the scene to help.DOC conservation services manager for

DHAKA: Sri Lanka’s new government will seek to borrow more than US$4 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international lenders as it ‘restructures’ expensive Chinese debt. Sri Lanka finance minister Ravi Karunanayake said Thursday, reports The Straits

DHAKA: Paris airport workers were due to go on strike Thursday to protest a salary freeze, in a work stoppage that will lead to delays and flight disruption.The strike by employees of the Aeroports de Paris (ADP) group that manages three airports serving the French capital -

DHAKA: The leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine have agreed a deal to end fighting in eastern Ukraine.Participants at the summit talks said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.The deal reached after all-night negotiations in the Belarussian capital Minsk included a ceasefire