DHAKA: The government has given its final go ahead to the Army for raising a corps along the China border which will include the deployment of 50,000 additional troops there at a cost of around Rs 65,000 crore.The 17 Corps, the latest and the 14th such formation of the Army, will

DHAKA: A young Frenchman who was stranded in the United States because he was deemed too heavy to fly finally took a plane to Britain on Monday, one step closer to going home.Kevin Chenais, who has a hormone imbalance and weighs 230 kilograms arrived at London’s Heathrow Airport with

DHAKA: At least 19 people have been killed in a suicide attack on an African Union base in the Somali town of Beledweyne near Ethiopia’s border, officials say.A car rammed into the gates, exploded and gunmen then stormed the building.The BBC’s Mohammed Moalimu in Somalia says it is a

DHAKA: Unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle on Tuesday killed a senior Shia university director along with his driver in an apparent sectarian attack in central Pakistan, officials said.The attack comes after several deadly clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslim groups near the capital

DHAKA: Iran believes an international peace conference on Syria can be held soon but that Syrian opposition groups have yet to commit fully to the meeting.Iran deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday.The United Nations hopes the ‘Geneva 2’ conference, which

DHAKA: A jihadist group linked to Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for what it called a double suicide bombing on Tuesday outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut, which killed at least 25 people.‘This is a double martyrdom operation carried out by two heroes from the heroic Sunnis of

DHAKA: Egypt’s interim head of state Adly Mansour will not run for president in elections slated for next year.A Kuwaiti newspaper on Tuesday quoted him as saying, reports The Jerusalem Post.Mansour was sworn in as interim president on July 4, a day after the Egyptian army ousted

DHAKA: Syria’s state TV is reporting that troops have captured a town near the Lebanon border, days after launching a wide offensive to regain the mountainous region.There is no immediate confirmation of the reported capture of Qara from rebels or pro-rebel activists, reports TDS.TV

DHAKA: US defence secretary Chuck Hagel told the Turkish foreign minister on Monday the United States would keep its two Patriot missile batteries in Turkey for up to another year, the Pentagon said.The expected decision follows backing last week by NATO allies for the extension, which

DHAKA: Two suspected suicide bombers, one driving a rigged car and the other on a motorcycle, attacked the Iranian embassy in Beirut Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 150.Lebanese security sources said, reports TDS.The sources told TDS that preliminary information

DHAKA: The US National Security Agency logged more than 33 million Norwegian phone conversations over a period of a month last winter, a newspaper said on Tuesday in the first such report involving Norway, a Nato ally.The report in the Dagbladet daily was based on documents made public by

DHAKA: A bus plunged into a ravine while travelling on Indonesia`s resort island of Bali, killing seven people including five Chinese tourists, police said on Tuesday.Eight people survived the accident, which occurred on a winding slope near the Pecatu resort area in southern Bali,

DHAKA: Two explosions targeting the Iranian embassy have hit the Lebanese capital Beirut, security sources said, killing up to 23 people, injuring at least 146 and damaging buildings in the embassy compound.Lebanese sources told Al Jazeera that the Iranian ambassador is safe, but the

DHAKA: Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono believes the Australian prime minister’s latest statement over reports that Australian spies tapped his phone was ‘regrettable’.Yudhoyono’s spokesman said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.Australian prime minister Tony

DHAKA: Spanish police said on Tuesday that they had seized 10 million euros, one of their biggest cash finds ever, and 452 kilogrammes of cocaine in raids on a drug gang.Officers also arrested five suspected traffickers in raids in the eastern city of Valencia and the capital Madrid, a

DHAKA: Two explosions ripped through the vicinity of the Iranian Embassy in Beirut Tuesday morning, killing at least 10 people and wounding scores more, security sources said.The sources told TDS the blasts, only minutes apart, blew up only meters away from the Iranian Embassy in the

DHAKA: US state secretary John Kerry rebuffed statements made by Israel prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu that a deal with Iran over its nuclear programme would jeopardise Israel security interests.Kerry, in a press conference with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, said nuclear

DHAKA: Qatar pledged to ensure respect for labourers’ rights after Amnesty International urged the state to end the ‘alarming’ abuse of migrants working on football World Cup infrastructure.A 169-page Amnesty report called on world football governing body Fifa to press Qatar to

DHAKA: The death toll from flooding caused by heavy rains in central Vietnam has risen to 41, with about 80,000 people forced from their homes.Vietnam disaster officials said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.The National Floods and Storms Control Agency said in a statement that the

DHAKA: Palestine`s delegation to the United Nations has cast a ballot for the first time in a routine General Assembly vote, an act the envoy said brought his nation a step closer to full UN membership.The chief Palestinian UN observer, Riyad Mansour, participated in the 193-nation