DHAKA: Military alliance Nato said on Wednesday it had decided on a series of immediate steps to reinforce its forces in eastern Europe because of the Ukraine crisis.‘You will see deployments at sea, in the air, on land to take place immediately, that means within days,’ Nato

DHAKA: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s father and noted scriptwriter Salim Khan on Wednesday launched the Urdu version of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s official website.Khan launched the website www.narendramodi.in from his residence in suburban Bandra, with BJP

DHAKA: The United States is coordinating with its European allies on ‘additional steps’ to slap more sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.A US official said, reports The Straits Times.Secretary of State John Kerry spoke by phone with his French, German and British

DHAKA: At a rally in Kishanganj in Bihar, Rahul Gandhi made a rare direct reference to his political opponent, Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat who is running for Prime Minister post of India.‘Modi-ji, don’t try to fool India,’ the young Congress vice-president said,

DHAKA: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 general elections, Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, rejected the view that he had remained silent on the February 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, which according to official figures, claimed the lives of 790

DHAKA: Ukraine’s prime minister on Wednesday accused Russia of ‘exporting terrorism’ to Ukraine by using covert forces to organise armed separatists who he said had attacked Ukrainian forces and occupied state buildings.‘The Russian government must immediately call off its

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of workers were on strike Wednesday at a factory in southern China which makes shoes for Nike and Adidas.Rights groups and a worker said, reports The Straits Times.More than 30,000 staff at the Yue Yuen Industrial (Holdings) factory in Dongguan city have been

DHAKA: A mini-submarine making its second dive in the hunt for missing Malaysian jet MH370 encountered a ‘technical difficulty’ and resurfaced on Wednesday, officials said, after the first mission also aborted.‘The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Bluefin-21, was forced to resurface

DHAKA: Two people were died and almost 180 more had been rescued and more than 100 people are unaccounted for in ferry capsize incident.A total of 34 naval, coastguard and civilian ships were involved in rescue efforts, as well as 18 helicopters.   Earlier a ferry with about 450 people

DHAKA: Scores of girls have been abducted in an attack on a school in north-east Nigeria.Parents say, reports the BBC.Gunmen reportedly arrived at the school in Chibok, Borno state, late last night, and ordered the hostel’s teenage residents on to four lorries.Parents told the BBC’s

DHAKA: Iran has complained to the United Nations over the decision by the United States to refuse a visa for its newly appointed permanent representative.Iran’s deputy envoy at the UN in New York, Hossein Dehghani, wrote that the US had violated its legal obligations and set a dangerous

DHAKA: India’s Supreme Court has recognised transgender people as a third gender, in a landmark ruling.‘It is the right of every human being to choose their gender,’ it said in granting rights to those who identify themselves as neither male nor female.It ordered the government to

DHAKA: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Tuesday delivered a scathing appraisal of her estranged and younger cousin Varun, who filed his nomination papers as the BJP candidate from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh.‘Anybody... no matter how close they are, as blood relations... if they are going to be on

DHAKA: Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi must do one year’s community service over tax fraud.A Milan court has ruled, reports the BBC.He was convicted of tax fraud in connection with TV rights purchased by his firm Mediaset.The alternative to community service had been

DHAKA: Pro-Russian separatists ignored an ultimatum to leave occupied government buildings in eastern Ukraine and instead seized more buildings as Kiev failed to follow through on a threatened military crackdown.The armed separatists on Tuesday remained in control of government offices in

DHAKA: A senior Afghan government official was kidnapped along with his driver on his way to work in Kabul on Tuesday.An interior ministry official said, reports The Straits Times.Ahmad Shah Waheed, deputy minister for public works, was taken by gunmen at around 7:00am (0230 GMT) from the

DHAKA: The EU and the US say they will impose ‘further costs’ on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, as unrest continues in the east of the country.EU foreign ministers said on Monday they would expand a list of names targeted by EU sanctions.Tension has been rising in Ukraine, with

DHAKA: A leading UK site for parents and the Canadian tax authority have both announced they have had data stolen by hackers exploiting the Heartbleed bug.Mumsnet, which says it has 1.5 million registered members, said that it believed that the cyber thieves may have obtained passwords

DHAKA: Syrian soldiers backed by Hizbollah fighters recaptured the town of Maaloula, north of Damascus, on Monday, military sources and state television said, further squeezing rebels’ supply routes through the Qalamoun mountains into Lebanon.Islamist fighters, some from the

DHAKA: The Guardian and Washington Post have shared the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism for a series of stories on US electronic spying.Their reporting was based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.Among other winners of the top