DHAKA: Two British jets were flying over Iraq and were ready to hit targets on Saturday, their first mission since parliament authorized strikes against Islamic State militants. Britain’s defense ministry said, reports The Jerusalem Post. A Reuters witness at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus

DHAKA: India’s Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has been sentenced to four years in jail after she was found guilty of corruption by a Bangalore court, where she was present for the verdict. Jayalalithaa, who is 66, will most likely have to resign as chief minister, the Supreme

DHAKA: Myanmar’s national government has drafted a plan that will give around a million members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a bleak choice: accept ethnic reclassification and the prospect of citizenship, or be detained. Most of Myanmar’s 1.1 million Rohingya

DHAKA: An Egyptian court postponed to November 29 its verdict on whether former president Hosni Mubarak ordered the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his three-decade rule. Before adjourning the hearing on Saturday, the judge said he and members of the prosecution

DHAKA: They were ‘fresh’ but eager to be militants after being recruited via Facebook just three months ago.Three would-be Malaysian militants, arrested at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Thursday, were enlisted into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group

DHAKA: A worker who had recently tried to convert colleagues to Islam beheaded one of them in a knife rampage after being dismissed from his job in Oklahoma State, Aljazeera reports. The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Alton Nolen, attacked another colleague with the knife before

DHAKA: The coalition is growing -- not just in words, but in action.Just over two weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama vowed "America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat" posed by ISIS, more than 50 countries have signed up, so far, to support the fight,

DHAKA: The US armed forces chief says Islamic State (IS) militants are being damaged by air strikes in Syria but air power alone is not enough to defeat them.Gen Martin Dempsey said a political solution and a ground campaign would both be needed in Iraq and Syria.Gen Dempsey said that

DHAKA: The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has passed 3,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.The latest figures indicate that more than 6,500 people are believed to have been infected in the region.Liberia is the worst affected country, having recorded around

DHAKA: Iraq's prime minister said Thursday that captured Islamic State militants have told Iraqi intelligence agents of an alleged plot to attack subways in the United States and Paris, but French and American officials said they had no such information. A senior Obama administration

DHAKA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "clean India" dream has driven his ministers to the broom, NDTV reports.  On Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary October 2, PM Modi will pick up a broom to launch his "Swachh Bharat (clean India)" mission, for which he wants a mass movement. In a

DHAKA: Police in northern Greece say they are investigating reports that a woman woke up to find herself buried in a coffin, only to die before being rescued, BBC reports.  Several people visiting the cemetery, near Thessaloniki, told police they had heard banging and muffled shouting

DHAKA: The US-led coalition’s warplanes have bombed oil installations and other facilities in territory controlled by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in eastern Syria on Friday for a second consecutive day. The strikes reportedly hit two oil areas in Deir ez-Zour

DHAKA: Four primary schoolchildren were killed in a knife attack by a man in south China’s Guangxi region, the latest such incident in the country in recent years. The four children in Pingshan town of Lingshan county were attacked by the knife-wielding middle-aged man at about 6:20 am

DHAKA: At least 12 people were killed in five days as over 100 of Taliban fighters have stormed a district of Afghan province near the capital. The officials on Friday said there were fears that the area will fall to the insurgents, reports the NDTV. Provincial deputy governor

FROM CHERUS, KUALALUMPUR: Bangladeshi students are trapped in the attractive advertisements which say that part time job side by side with studying.  Being victims of fraud agents, few hundreds of Bangladeshi students are facing an embarrassing situation after coming over here. 

DHAKA: A US court has ordered Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to respond to allegations that he failed to stop the 2002 riots in Gujarat, the state he ruled for 14 years till he came to power at the Centre in May.Modi, who begins a five-day visit to the US today, has 21 days to

DHAKA: Fifty people died in violence on Sunday in Xinjiang, Chinese state media said, in what police called a "serious terrorist attack".Earlier this week state media reported the incident in Luntai county but gave the death toll as two.On Thursday a state news portal said 40 "rioters",

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama has said the global community has not done enough to respond to the crisis posed by the Ebola outbreak that is currently spiralling out of control in West Africa."There is still a significant gap between where we are and where we need to be," Obama

DHAKA: Eric Holder said he would step down as US attorney general, setting up a potentially bruising Senate fight to confirm a successor who can tackle a long list of pending challenges at the Justice Department.Holder, an unapologetic liberal voice and one of president Barack