DHAKA: The United States could help build Vietnam’s naval capacity if a ban on selling lethal weapons to the authoritarian nation is lifted. The most senior US military officer to visit Vietnam for decades said Saturday, reports The Straits Times. General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of

DHAKA: Twenty-seven people have died in separate incidents of landslide, cloudburst and flood in ecologically fragile India’s Uttarakhand in the past 24 hours as heavy monsoon rain continues to lash the state, according to the disaster management control room. Fourteen deaths due to

DHAKA: Militants in northern Iraq have massacred at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith in a village and abducted women and children.Islamic State (IS) fighters entered Kocho, 45km (30 miles) from Sinjar, on Friday afternoon, reportedly telling men to convert to Islam or die, reports

DHAKA: The Islamist terror group Boko Haram kidnapped at least 97 men and boys and killed 28 people this week in a raid on villages in Borno State in northeast Nigeria.  Boko Haram gunmen also injured 25 others during the raid in which scores of homes were burned, the sources said. The

DHAKA:  Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan said Saturday he would continue to lead protests in Islamabad along with thousands of his supporters until Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif steps down.Khan says the May 2013 general election that brought Sharif to power in a landslide

DHAKA: Nineteen people have been killed in the last 24 hours in landslides and incidents of house collapse as heavy rain continued in the hill state of Uttarakhand in India on Saturday.While 14 people have been killed in Yamkeshwar, Pauri and Lansdowne Tehsils of Pauri district, 2 people

DHAKA: Russia's defence secretary has assured his US counterpart that there are no military personnel in its controversial aid convoy for Ukraine, the US says.It said Sergey Shoygu told Chuck Hagel the convoy was not being used as a pretext to intervene further.The convoy, which aims to

DHAKA: The United Nations Security Council has taken a tough line against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, blacklisting six people including the group's spokesman and threatening sanctions against its financiers and weapons suppliers.The 15-member council unanimously adopted on

DHAKA: US warplanes carried out airstrikes in northern Iraq near ISIS-controlled Mosul Dam early Saturday morning, the Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported, citing eyewitnesses.CNN confirmed that a U.S. and Iraqi military operation aimed at retaking the country's largest hydroelectric dam

DHAKA: At least 14 people were killed in an attack when African Union peacekeepers entered a surburb of Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday. Major Abdullahi Farah said, “At least 14 people, mostly militia, died in the fighting this morning. The government’s aim is to secure the

DHAKA: Clashes have erupted in Pakistan after an attack on a convoy of protesters heading to the capital Islamabad, led by opposition politician Imran Khan. A crowd pelted the convoy with stones in the city of Gujranwala. Officials from Imran’s party said his vehicle was also shot at

DHAKA: EU foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday to discuss plans on providing arms to Iraqi Kurds against an extremist insurgency. France and the US have already begun to supply weapons to the Kurds, whose Peshmerga fighters are trying to halt an

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the world to set up their business in his country and to manufacture more goods from there. He made the urge on Friday morning from Delhi's imposing Red Fort, during an extempore maiden Independence Day speech. Modi said there "Come, make

DHAKA: Narendra Modi said India had been shamed by a recent spate of rapes, as he made his first Independence Day speech as prime minister.He called on parents to take responsibility for their sons' actions, saying parents must teach their sons the difference between right and

DHAKA: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has stepped aside, ending political deadlock in Baghdad as the government struggles against insurgents.He resigned on state TV to make way for Haider al-Abadi, who was asked by Iraq's president to form a government.Maliki had been under intense

DHAKA: Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday launched a blistering new assault on social media, comparing the likes of Twitter to a ‘scalpel in the hand of a surgeon’ and a ‘knife in the hand of a murderer’.Although many other world leaders are enthusiastic

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra Modi is expected to unveil an ambitious financial inclusion scheme on Independence Day on Friday to provide bank accounts to 15 crore poor persons with an overdraft facility of Rs 5,000 and accident insurance of Rs 1 lakh.The-two phase

DHAKA: Raking up the Kashmir issue, Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday said it is the ‘main source of tension’ in India-Pakistan relations and sought its peaceful resolution to explore new ways to bolster bilateral ties. ‘We want peaceful resolution of Kashmir with

DHAKA: Malaysia has declared August 22 as a national day of mourning for victims of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, when the remains of 15 victims will be brought back to Malaysia on a special flight.Making the announcement Thursday, deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin said,

DHAKA: A fiery Pakistani cleric Tahir ul-Qadri has will be allowed to lead his supporters on an anti-government protest march to the capital.A senior policeman said on Thursday, reversing an earlier government decision, reports The Straits Times.Tahir ul-Qadri has spent the last week