DHAKA: The Indian satellite which entered orbit around Mars on Wednesday has begun work, taking pictures of the planet's surface, BBC reports. Space agency officials said a handful of images had been sent and were being processed before being released. The "Mangalyaan" robotic probe,

DHAKA: The United Nations Security Council demanded Wednesday that members nations make it harder for would-be terrorists to travel abroad to join extremist groups, or use their home-country passports to return and carry out attacks. The U.S.-drafted measure unanimously approved by the

RIADH: Eid-ul-Adha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated in Saudi Arab and Middle East countries on October 4.  Saudi authorities announced that the month of Zil Haj would begin on Thursday. Accordingly the Day of Arafat would fall on October 3. The

DHAKA: United States: president Barack Obama called on the world Wednesday to join the US-led coalition to defeat jihadists in Iraq and Syria. ‘The United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death,’ Obama told the UN General Assembly,

DHAKA: Give missed calls to women and cool your heels in jail in Indian state of Bihar! India’s CID inspector general (IG) (weaker section) Arvind Pandey on Tuesday issued a circular to all district superintendents of police (SPs) and government rail police (GRP) SPs asking them to

DHAKA: Polish anti-communist icon Lech Walesa said Poland should procure nuclear weapons as a safeguard against Russia, which it blames for stoking the crisis in neighbouring Ukraine. ‘Poland needs to stand up to Russia,’ the Nobel Peace laureate, who spearheaded Poland’s democracy

DHAKA: New air strikes have targeted Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, hitting areas close to the border with Turkey. Syrian activists reported strikes around the Kurdish town of Kobane, which has been besieged by IS fighters for several days. Witnesses saw two military aircraft

DHAKA: Nato says it has observed a ‘significant’ withdrawal of Russian troops from eastern Ukraine, but adds that some forces still remain there. Lt Col Jay Janzen says it is difficult to determine the number of soldiers in Ukraine, as pro-Russian separatists control several border

DHAKA: India’s prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said multinational cola giants PepsiCo and Coca-Cola should help augment fruit sales for Indian farmers by adding fresh fruit juices to their fizzy drinks. ‘Millions of people buy Pepsi and Coke. I have asked these companies if

DHAKA: Scottish nationalist Nicola Sturgeon said on Wednesday she would run for the leadership of the Scottish National Party (SNP), a job that would make her Scotland’s most powerful politician. After failing to secure Scotland’s backing for independence in a September 18

DHAKA: The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories still circulating from the streets of Baghdad to the highest

DHAKA: Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday, said Jerika Richardson, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan. In March, he was found guilty of helping al Qaeda terrorists conspire to kill Americans and providing

DHAKA: US-led air strikes have disrupted Islamic State (IS) militants but the fight against them will take years. A Pentagon spokesman has told the BBC. The comments came as activists reported new strikes around the town of Kobane, near Syria's border with Turkey. Kobane has been

DHAKA: Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada has been found not guilty of terrorism offences by a court in Jordan.A panel of civilian judges sitting at Amman’s State Security Court cleared him of being involved in a thwarted plot aimed at the millennium celebrations in 2000.The ruling

DHAKA: Air France has dropped plans to expand its Transavia low-cost airline, the government has said, following a week-long strike by its pilots.The country's transport secretary, Alain Vidalies, told RMC radio that ‘the Transavia Europe project has been abandoned by management’,

DHAKA: American jets began bombing ISIS targets in Syria early Tuesday, raising U.S. involvement in the war-torn country and sending a forceful message to the terror group.The airstrikes focused on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, a U.S. official told CNN, though other locations were hit

DHAKA: Mission successful. India's Mars mission, Mangalyaan, has entered the red planet's orbit in a historic moment for the country's space programme.Among an audience made up largely of excited scientists at the spacecraft control room of the Indian Space Research Organisation in

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday denounced human rights abuse in North Korea and called on Pyongyang to shut down its penal colonies riddled with ‘barbarity and inhumanity’. ‘You should close those camps, you should shut this evil system down,’ Kerry said at an

DHAKA: Outgoing Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Tuesday blamed the United States for his country’s long war, a final swipe at the country that helped bring him to power 13 years ago but towards which he has become increasingly bitter. His farewell speech came days ahead of the planned

DHAKA: Iran and Saudi Arabia held their first foreign minister-level meeting since the 2013 election of president Hassan Rouhani, official Iranian media reported, signalling a possible thaw in chilly ties between the rival Gulf powers. Iran and Saudi Arabia have been engaged in a bitter