DHAKA: The Authorities of Iraq said more than 100 people were killed Friday in fighting between security forces and al Qaeda-backed Sunni fighters. The fighting follows news a day earlier that militants tried to take control of the city of Samarra to the south, violence spurred in part

DHAKA: Police in Brazil have used tear gas to break up protesters on the second day of a metro strike that has left Sao Paulo's transport in chaos. Nearly half of the stations were closed and there was gridlock on the streets of Brazil's largest city, which will host the opening match of

DHAKA: A CBI court in Delhi Friday found 17 Uttarakhand cops guilty of killing a 22-year-old MBA graduate in a fake encounter in 2009. Ranbir Singh, an MBA student from Ghaziabad, was found dead with 29 bullet wounds on his body at Mohini Road in Dehradun in July 2009. The cops had

DHAKA: The American, Russian and incoming Ukrainian leaders have discussed, in separate meetings in France, a ceasefire and other possible steps to de-escalate the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, reports said. Russian President Vladimir Putin held brief one-on-one talks on Friday with his US

DHAKA: Russian President Vladimir Putin met Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko for the first time since his election, at a D-Day event in France. The two leaders, along with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, agreed to discuss a ceasefire, BBC reports. Putin also spoke briefly to

DHAKA: A suicide bomber and a roadside bomb have struck the convoy of presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah in the capital Kabul on Friday. The Afghan Interior Ministry said this, reports the Aljazeera. Friday’s explosions killed four civilians but left the candidate himself

DHAKA: Floods caused by days of torrential rain have displaced over 100,000 people in Sri Lanka. The latest government data showed on Friday that reported by The Times of India. The Disaster Management Centre said that 26,688 families comprising 109,075 people have been affected by the

DHAKA: Pakistan Premier Nawaz Sharif is “not too happy” with the way India handled his visit to New Delhi to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India. A media report claimed Friday quoting an unnamed leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League

DHAKA: North Korea announced Friday that it has detained a U.S. citizen who it says entered the secretive country as a tourist in April and broke the law. The news brings the number of Americans believed to be held in the communist nation to three. The North's state-run Korean Central

DHAKA: Back-to-back car bomb attacks have killed seven people belonging to an ethnic minority in northern Iraq, reported foxnews.Police officials said the explosion on Friday morning took place in Tahrawa, a village, near the city of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, inhabited by

DHAKA: Sumitra Mahajan, an eight-time BJP member of Parliament, has been elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Sumitra for her unanimous election. Modi, in his first speech in Parliament, said, "There are 315 new members in the House. This means

DHAKA: India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj will visit Dhaka on June 26. Bangladesh foreign ministry informed media on Thursday. She will stay in Dhaka for one day and will bring a letter from India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Indian minister will

DHAKA: China underestimated its growing defence budget by nearly 20 percent with its spending likely nearing US$145 billion last year. The Pentagon said on Thursday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Friday. In an annual report required by Congress, the Pentagon said that

DHAKA: When India’s former deputy prime minister LK Advani reached his office in Parliament during the lunch-break on Thursday, he was confronted with a humiliating situation.The plaque with his name at the door of the room allotted to him in the 15th Lok Sabha - which said that he is

DHAKA: Lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts more than 40 years ago contain evidence of a Mars-sized planet that scientists believe crashed into Earth and created the moon.New research shows, reports The Straits Times.German scientists using a new technique said they detected

DHAKA: A lawmaker from Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party has described rape as a social crime, saying ‘sometimes it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong’, in the latest controversial remarks by an Indian politician about rape.The political leaders of Uttar Pradesh, the

DHAKA: Hundreds of people are feared dead in a suspected Boko Haram attack on four villages in northeast Nigeria, in the latest upsurge in violence claiming increasing numbers of civilian lives.Some community leaders put the death toll from the attacks in the Gwoza district of Borno state

DHAKA: Cairo’s most important Western allies plan to send low-level representatives to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s presidential inauguration, officials said, a diplomatic snub meant to convey ongoing concerns about the state of Egyptian democracy.The government that Sisi installed after he

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama suggested that Scotland would be better off as part of Britain, and urged the British to stay in the European Union.Stepping into a febrile debate over Scotland’s independence referendum on September 18, Obama said the decision was ‘up to

DHAKA: BJP leader Sumitra Mahajan will be the Speaker of India’s 16th Lok Sabha with senior leaders from all parties, including prime minister Narendra Modi, moving motions on Thursday proposing her name for the high office.Mahajan’s was the only name that was proposed as the time for