DHAKA: Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has sent a white sari for the mother of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.Modi had gifted a shawl to the Sharif’s mother, when the Pakistani leader visited India last week.Modi thanked Sharif in a tweet Thursday, ‘Nawaz Sharif ji has sent

DHAKA: China’s campaign to bulldoze mountains to create land to build on could cause extensive environmental problems.Scientists say, reports the BBC.Researchers from Chang’an University in China have warned that dozens of mountains have already been flattened - and this is causing

DHAKA: Newly elected Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will undertake his first visit to Bhutan this month, reported The Indian Express. It has been reliably learnt that an official team will be leaving for Thimphu on Friday to set up the visit and work out the relevant logistics. 

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama could hold their first bilateral meeting in September, when Modi travels to the US for a UN meeting, sources have told NDTV. According to reports, the bilateral meeting could be held in Washington likely between

DHAKA: Sumitra Mahajan, senior BJP leader and one of the most experienced Parliamentarians, looks set to be the next Lok Sabha Speaker. According to sources, the 71-year-old leader from Madhya Pradesh has been sounded by party chief Rajnath Singh about the new assignment. The election

DHAKA: Leaders of the G7 industrial nations meeting in Brussels say they are prepared to impose further sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine. A joint statement condemned Moscow for its "continuing violation" of Ukraine's sovereignty. The summit is the first since Russia was

DHAKA: A manhunt is under way in the Canadian city of Moncton, New Brunswick, after three officers have been shot dead and two wounded. Police said they were searching for Justin Bourque, 24, who was "armed and dangerous", and tweeted a picture of a suspect with weapons. Officials have

DHAKA: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has won a landslide victory in presidential poll securing 88.7 percent of the vote, parliament speaker Mohammad al-Laham has said. The two other candidates, Hassan al-Nouri and Maher Hajjar, won 4.3 percent and 3.2 percent respectively. The

DHAKA: A US military jet has crashed into homes in the California desert, about 90 miles (144km) east of San Diego. Television reports show at least one home on fire on a residential street in the city of Imperial, following the crash on Wednesday evening. The sole pilot ejected safely,

DHAKA: Gunmen killed a Swiss national working in Libya for the International Committee for the Red Cross when they intercepted his car in the city of Sirte. The Red Crescent said, reports The Straits Times. ‘The ICRC’s head of mission in Misrata was killed today as he was carrying

DHAKA: EU Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday that the European Union was ready to organise talks next month to set up a donor’s conference for the new government in Ukraine. ‘We stand ready to organise a donors’ coordination meeting in Brussels in July,’

DHAKA: US secretary of state John Kerry arrived in Beirut on Wednesday, beginning an unannounced visit that is the first by a US secretary of state to Lebanon in five years. A journalist said, reports The Straits Times. Kerry is in Beirut to announce US$290 million in aid to boost UN

DHAKA: A rocket hit the Libyan government’s head offices, where new prime minister Ahmed Miitig was to hold a cabinet meeting, causing damage but no casualties. A Libyan official said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times. The projectile struck the third floor of the building near

DHAKA: Ten people died on Wednesday after a minibus carrying 16 passengers plunged into a mountain gorge in Russia’s North Caucasus. Rescue officials said, reports The Straits Times. ‘According to preliminary information, there are seven children and three adults among the dead. Six

DHAKA: Germany is to investigate allegations by US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden that the US government bugged Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone. Federal prosecutor Harald Range informed the German parliament’s legal affairs committee that an investigation would be held into

DHAKA: Spain’s king-in-waiting Prince Felipe vowed on Wednesday to work for a ‘united and diverse’ nation in his first public remarks since King Juan Carlos announced his abdication. While stressing his respect for Spain’s parliament, which has yet to proclaim him monarch, the

DHAKA: The White House on Wednesday urged China to account for those who were killed, detained or went missing in connection with the crackdown around Tiananmen Square 25 years ago and said it honoured the memories of those who gave their lives in that protest. ‘The United States will

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama told Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday that the US was committed to his country in the long term, as pro-Russia separatists continued to battle Ukrainian troops in the country’s east. ‘The United States is absolutely committed

DHAKA: Almost 800 babies and children were buried in a mass grave in Ireland near a home for unmarried mothers run by nuns, according to new research Wednesday which throws more light on the Irish Catholic Church’s troubled past. Death records suggest 796 children, from newborns to

DHAKA: The Taliban on Wednesday released dramatic footage of their handover of army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl to US forces after five years in captivity. ‘Don’t come to Afghanistan again. Next time, nobody will release you,’ one of the gun-toting militants is heard telling Bergdahl in