DHAKA: Three days after the launch of an anti-corruption helpline by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, two constables were arrested Saturday on charges of extortion by the vigilance department following a sting operation by a vendor.Two constables identified as Ishwar Singh and

DHAKA: Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Turkey’s capital Ankara on Saturday in protest against prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, which has been rocked by a vast corruption probe.As Erdogan arrived home after a week-long tour to Asia, about

DHAKA: Egypt’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said he would run for president if the people demand it and the military supports him.State media quoted him as saying on Saturday, reports TDS.An official close to the general told media Sisi has not made up his mind but feels he ‘would

DHAKA: Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has invited EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton to visit the Islamic republic.Mehr news agency cited his deputy as saying on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.‘Ashton has received an open invitation from Zarif to travel to

DHAKA: Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who returned Friday night after being indicted by a US grand jury for alleged visa fraud, Saturday met India external affairs minister Salman Khurshid and foreign secretary Sujatha Singh here.Khobragade arrived in Delhi by a US Airlines flight

DHAKA: One man was shot dead in clashes in a Tunisian city near the Algerian border late on Friday after protesters tried to storm a customs office in one of several demonstrations across the country.Scattered protests over economic hardships have broken out as Tunisia’s new prime

DHAKA: French president Francois Hollande is coming under pressure to clarify his personal situation, after Closer magazine reported on his alleged secret affair with the actress Julie Gayet.The president is making a key policy announcement on Tuesday amid fears it may be overshadowed by

DHAKA: The United States has sent a handful of military advisers to Somalia in recent months to help bolster an African Union force fighting Islamist militants there.Officials said on Friday, The Times of India publishes this report on Saturday.The deployment marks the first stationing of

DHAKA: A shocking ad on one of Latin America’s biggest online marketplaces, offering ‘blacks for sale for one real’, has sparked outrage in Brazil and a police investigation.The ad featured a photo of two black children, and suggested any blacks purchased could ‘serve as

DHAKA: Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has died aged 85 after spending eight years in a coma following a stroke.Sharon was a giant of the Israeli military and political scene, but courted controversy throughout his long career.He was being treated at the Sheba Medical Center

DHAKA: A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander said Saturday that Hezbollah in Lebanon has upgraded its capabilities in recent years and is now able to carry out pinpoint missile strikes on targets throughout Israel.Speaking in an interview with Iran’s Fars News Agency, Commander

DHAKA: India said Saturday there was ‘no standoff’ with Washington after it expelled a US diplomat in a row over the arrest of an Indian consular official in New York.‘There is no standoff between India and the US,’ Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid told reporters in New

DHAKA: Residents of a militant-held city on Baghdad’s doorstep began slowly returning on Saturday amid a tense calm as the UN Security Council backed Iraq’s efforts against Al-Qaeda-linked extremists.Most businesses reopened in Fallujah and government security operations in nearby

DHAKA: India’s new anti-graft party has signed up tens of thousands of members in a nationwide recruitment drive as it seeks to build support ahead of general elections.An official said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.The Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party plans to contest seats in the

DHAKA: A Pakistani teenager who sacrificed his life to stop a suicide bomber, saving the lives of hundreds of students, has been handed the country`s highest award for bravery.Aitzaz Hassan, 15, a student in Hangu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has become a national hero after

DHAKA: Seven people were wounded, one seriously, after gunmen opened fire on anti-government protesters in Bangkok early on Saturday, heightening fears of more violence when protesters try to ‘shutdown’ the capital next week in their long-running bid to overthrow prime minister

DHAKA: Ukraine’s ex-interior minister and current opposition leader Yuriy Lutsenko is in intensive care in hospital on Saturday after being beaten in fresh clashes that erupted between pro-European Union demonstrators and club-wielding police.Dozens of nationalist demonstrators

DHAKA: A patient in Naivasha District Hospital in Kenya who spent time in morgue a day after being declared dead is still alive.The authorities have launched an investigation into how a man declared dead in a hospital woke up alive in its morgue the next day.Shocked mortuary workers at

DHAKA: Iran and the EU have appeared to make progress in resolving outstanding differences on how to implement a landmark nuclear deal, but the United States said discussions were not yet finalised.Iran`s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, met a senior EU official in Geneva on Friday

DHAKA: A senior American official has said the United States is "very open" to building a new relationship with Cuba.However, Edward Alex Lee of the US state department stressed that any improvement should go hand-in-hand with more political freedom on the communist-run island, reports