DHAKA: Beleaguered opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was set Sunday to lead a rally of thousands of farmers in the Indian capital against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial overhaul of laws on land-buying.Dressed all in white and waving opposition Congress party flags, busloads

DHAKA: The first French weapons from a US$3 billion Saudi-funded program will arrive in Lebanon on Monday as allies seek to bolster the country’s defenses against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria and other militants pressing along its Syrian border.Anti-tank guided missiles are

DHAKA: Police in Australia say they have foiled an Islamic State-inspired plot to carry out an attack at a World War One centenary event.Police arrested five teenage suspects, charging one 18-year-old with conspiring to commit a terrorist act, reports the BBC.The men were planning to

DHAKA: Anger flared up against the fragile coalition government in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday as a 15-year-old boy was killed when police fired on pro-azadi protesters at Magam in Budgam district.Suhail Ahmed Sofi’s killing is the first such case since the People’s Democratic

DHAKA: A mysterious disease has killed at least 18 people in the past several days in south-eastern Nigeria.Local officials said this that reports the BBC on Sunday.The outbreak started in the Ode-Irele town, Ondo state, and spread rapidly.The disease - characterised by blurred vision,

DHAKA: South African President Jacob Zuma has visited a refugee camp in the port of Durban after a fresh outbreak of anti-foreigner violence.Zuma told those who had fled the violence that it went against South African values and he would bring it to an end.But he was jeered by some in the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama said on Saturday that climate change poses the world’s biggest single threat.‘Today, there’s no greater threat to our planet than climate change,’ Obama said in his weekly address, which had an environmental theme to mark Earth Day on April

DHAKA: Israel said on Saturday it would transfer US$470 million of withheld tax revenues to the Palestinian government following talks between a senior Israeli military officer and Palestinian officials.In December, Israel began withholding around US$130 million per month of taxes it

DHAKA: Indian police shot dead a 16-year-old boy on Saturday during an anti-India demonstration in Kashmir as a separatist strike shut down the Himalayan region for a second day.Officials said, reports The Straits Times.The uncle of the boy said police first detained his nephew before

DHAKA: Japan’s population has shrunk for the fourth year running, falling back to a level it was last at in 2000, with more than one in four people now aged 65 or older.The government said, reports The Straits Times.The population dropped by 0.17 percent, or 215,000 people, to

DHAKA: A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people and wounded 50 others in an attack on Saturday outside a bank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.Provincial officials said, reports The Straits Times.‘The explosion happened outside a bank where government employees collect their

DHAKA: A prominent former aide to late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Izzat al-Douri, has been killed in a wide-scale military operation.Al-Douri - believed to be mastermind of the insurgency against the current government - was an influential leader and is said to have played a role in

DHAKA: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called for an immediate halt to the fighting in Yemen, the first time he has made such an appeal since Saudi-led air strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels began three weeks ago.“I am calling for an immediate cease-fire in Yemen

DHAKA: Fighters from Islamist group Boko Haram killed at least ten people in overnight attacks on two villages in northern Cameroon.Two senior army sources said this on Friday, reports the Jerusalem Post.“There were consecutive attacks by Boko Haram in Bia and Blaberi in the district of

DHAKA: A Chinese court has sentenced a 71-year-old female journalist to seven years in jail for leaking state secrets, in a case seen by rights groups as part of a crackdown on government critics.Gao Yu, named one of the International Press Institute’s 50 ‘world press heroes’ in

DHAKA: Members of the UN Security Council were moved to tears after they were shown a video of an apparent chlorine gas attack in north-west Syria last month.The footage shows the unsuccessful attempts of doctors to revive three children all aged under four, reports the BBC.US ambassador

DHAKA: Islamic State’s (IS) Pakistan chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was killed when a roadside bomb he was planting went off in Pakistan's restive northwest tribal region.Saeed along with two of his accomplices were killed on Thursday when the bomb they were planting exploded in Toor Dara

DHAKA: At least five people have been found dead inside a home in north Phoenix of US State of Arizona Thursday.Phoenix police said a dispatcher received an "unknown trouble" call around 2:00pm local time and then heard gunshots in the background.Authorities said two males and three

DHAKA: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has suspended death sentences passed by controversial new military tribunals, until it rules on the legality of the sentences.The move directly affects six militants who were facing imminently execution, reports the BBC.In December Pakistan ended a

DHAKA: Russia will not impose penalties against France over its failure to fulfill a 1.2 billion euro contract to supply two Mistral helicopter carriers.Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.‘We do intend to seek any penalties or fines ... but it