DHAKA: The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killing of three employees of a local private television network in Karachi.The claim was made after motorcycle-borne assailants shot a technician, guard and driver working for Express TV on Friday, according to the TV

DHAKA: Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, wife of union minister Shashi Tharoor, was found dead at the five-star The Leela Palace Hotel in Delhi on Friday evening.The incident took place two days after she said she was deeply disturbed by an alleged affair her husband was having with a Pakistani

DHAKA: An attack on a restaurant in Kabul apparently carried out by the Afghan Taliban has killed at least 16 people, including four UN employees and the International Monetary Fund`s resident representative.The assailants targeted Taverna du Liban, a Lebanese restaurant popular with

DHAKA: Australia has apologised to Indonesia after its navy vessels "inadvertently" entered Indonesian waters while on operations to stop asylum seekers.Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said Australia "deeply" regretted the events, adding the foreign minister would offer an

DHAKA: Dozens of wildfires were burning out of control in heatwave conditions across southern Australia, with at least one person confirmed dead.Fire authorities on Friday said 68 fires were burning across Victoria state and another 16 were blazing across neighboring South Australia

DHAKA: Musadiq Sanwal, the chief editor of Dawn.com, Pakistan`s English-language news portal, passed away on Friday after battling with lung cancer.He will be remembered for his dedication to the journalism, his staff and love for music.His funeral prayers would be held at 1:45 pm today

DHAKA: A Karachi-bound Khushhal Express travelling from Peshawar was struck by an explosion on the railway tracks near Umerkot in Rajanpur district of Punjab in Pakistan, causing four bogies of the train to derail and killing at least three persons, DawnNews reported.Emergency and rescue

DHAKA: The level of greenhouse gases is rising rapidly and far greater global efforts are needed to tackle the issue, a leaked UN report has warned.The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says hugely expensive technology will be needed if the current situation

DHAKA: President Barack Obama is to announce changes to US electronic spy programmes after revelations made by ex-intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.He aims to restore public confidence in the intelligence community.Obama is expected to create a public advocate at the secretive court

DHAKA: Egyptians have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a new constitution drafted by the army-backed interim government, according to early results.The tally, released on Thursday, also show that turnout in this week’s referendum was at least modestly higher than a 2012 constitutional

DHAKA: More than 1,000 people have died in two weeks of fighting between al Qaeda-linked militants in Syria and rival rebels.An activist group said on Thursday adding, by far the bloodiest internecine violence since the revolt began, reports TDS.The uprising against president Bashar

DHAKA: Indian Coast Guard will take over from Sri Lanka 52 Indian fishermen and hand over a similar number of Lankan fishermen released by India to authorities of that country on Friday.ICG ship Vishwast will undertake ‘concurrent repatriation’ of the said number of fishermen,

DHAKA: In a massive crackdown on corruption, the state government headed by Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has announced plans to fire 900 corrupt officials in the next two months.The accused officials were caught taking bribes or charged with amassing huge disproportionate wealth.A

DHAKA: The National Coordination Body, a Syrian opposition group that some rebels see as a front for president Bashar Assad, has decided not to take part in peace talks that will begin next week.Organisation’s international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi said on Thursday, reports The

DHAKA: North Korea’s top military body on Thursday piled fresh pressure on South Korea to cancel planned military drills with the United States, even as Seoul insisted the exercises would go ahead.In a statement carried by the North’s official KCNA news agency, the National Defence

DHAKA: Pakistan’s embattled former military dictator Pervez Musharraf has refused to leave the country on ‘medical grounds’ until he is given ‘clean chit’ in high treason and other cases, according to a close aide.Contrary to the impression that ‘Musharraf’s illness drama’

DHAKA: Ugandan troops are fighting alongside South Sudan government forces against rebels.Uganda president Yoweri Museveni has confirmed, reports the BBC.He said the combined forces had defeated rebels in a ‘big battle’ north of the capital Juba.Museveni said some Ugandans had been

DHAKA: Ahead of the crucial AICC session on Friday, India minister Oscar Fernandes said Rahul Gandhi is Congress candidate for prime minister even as suspense remains on whether the party will formally anoint him as PM nominee for the Lok Sabha polls. ‘Whether he (Rahul) accepts or

DHAKA: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an unannounced visit to neighbouring Jordan on Thursday for talks with King Abdullah II on the Middle East peace process.Kingdom’s palace officials said, reports The Straits Times.The rare meeting in Amman comes as US state secretary

DHAKA: The Vatican is being confronted publicly for the first time over the sexual abuse of children by clergy, at a UN hearing in Geneva.The Church was asked why it continued to describe such abuse as an offense against morals rather than a crime against children.Archbishop Silvano