DHAKA: At least 19 people have been killed in Mexico, which is being battered by two powerful storms.Hurricane Ingrid has caused floods and sent thousands to emergency shelter on Mexico’s Gulf Coast. It is expected to make landfall later on Monday.On the Pacific coast, Tropical Storm

DHAKA: Veteran actor Dilip Kumar, has been admitted to Mumbai`s Lilavati Hospital on Sunday after he developed chest complications.90-year-old Kumar who is married to actress Saira Bhanu, has acted in many memorable Bollywood movies including Devdas, Karma and Kranti.Dilip Kumar was

DHAKA: A high-ranking Pakistani general has been killed in a bomb attack claimed by the Taliban near the Afghan border.The Pakistani army said, reports Al Jazeera.Major General Sanaullah Khan was the top army commander in a northwestern region, including the volatile Swat Valley.A

DHAKA: With its defence ties with India growing at a rapid pace, Israel on Sunday asserted that it will not supply any weapons systems and military hardware to Pakistan, saying the policy in this regard was ‘very clear’ and ‘strict’.India’s Israeli ambassador Alon Ushpiz said

DHAKA: The United Nations has formally accepted Syria’s application to join the chemical weapons convention, a spokesperson said.The UN welcomed Syria joining the Chemical Weapons Convention, after it received the formal instrument of accession to it by the Assad regime.Syria applied

DHAKA: An Indian army jawan allegedly attempted to rape a sleeping woman passenger in an air-conditioned coach of a running train in Assam in the wee hours of Sunday.India railway police sources said, reports Hindustan Times.The incident occurred in Guwahati-Ledo Inter City Express and

DHAKA: One of Nigeria’s most senior Anglican clerics, who was kidnapped by armed men more than a week ago, has been freed.Archbishop Ignatius Kattey was released without a ransom on Saturday evening near the southern city of Port Harcourt, police said.He was in a stable condition,

DHAKA: Unknown gunmen shot and seriously injured the top female police officer in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province on Sunday, just months after her high-profile predecessor was killed, officials said.Nigar, who like many Afghans uses only one name, was expected to survive the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama rejected Russian president Vladimir Putin’s claim that Syrian rebels were responsible for an August 21 chemical gas attack but, in an interview broadcast on Sunday, he welcomed Putin’s diplomatic role in the crisis.Obama, in an interview on ABC’s

DHAKA: More than 2,100 Syrian officers have fled to Jordan since the start of the conflict in their country in 2011.The kingdom’s interior minister said in remarks published on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.‘Jordan is hosting around 2,130 Syrian officers of different military

DHAKA: The US-Russia deal aimed at removing Syrian chemical weapons averted war and is ‘a victory for Syria’.The Syrian minister of state for national reconciliation Ali Haidar said Sunday, reports TDS.‘On one hand, it will help the Syrians emerge from the crisis and on the other it

DHAKA: Japan is to start the process of switching off its last working nuclear reactor on Sunday for a scheduled inspection with no restart in sight due to public hostility towards atomic power.The move will leave the world`s third largest economy without atomic energy for the second time

DHAKA: Indonesia Muslim hard-liners have resumed protests in the country’s capital and two other cities against the Miss World pageant being held in the resort island of Bali.Several hundred members of the Islamic Defenders Front and Islamic Society Forum held a rally late Saturday in

DHAKA: China’s foreign minister on Sunday welcomed the deal between the United States and Russia to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons, which headed off the prospect of US strikes against Bashar al-Assad’s regime.‘The Chinese side welcomes the general agreement between the US and

DHAKA: A female Afghan parliamentarian held captive by Taliban for three weeks has been released in a prisoner exchange.Taliban and government officials said, reports The Jerusalem Post.Fariba Ahmadi Kakar, a member of the Afghan lower house, was kidnapped on August 13 when travelling by

DHAKA: The Pakistani Taliban demanded Sunday that the government release militant prisoners and begin withdrawing troops from the group’s tribal sanctuary before they will participate in peace talks, raising doubts about prospects for negotiations.The demands came as a roadside bomb

DHAKA: A lawyer for two men sentenced to death for the fatal gang-rape of an Indian student could lose his licence for remarks that ‘reek of misogyny’.A regulatory body said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.AP Singh, the counsel for Akshay Thakur and Vinay Sharma, has angered the

DHAKA: Thousands of villagers fled on Sunday after a volcano erupted on Indonesia’s Sumatra island spewing rocks and red-hot ash onto surrounding villages, officials said.Mount Sinabung in Karo district, North Sumatra province, erupted violently before dawn.‘More than 3,000 people

DHAKA: Philippine officials say nearly 100 Muslim guerrillas, who have held scores of people hostage for a week in the south, have been killed or captured in a push by government troops to retake rebel-held coastal communities.Philippine interior secretary Mar Roxas and other officials

DHAKA: A deal between Russia and the United States to remove Syria’s chemical arsenal was a sign of US ‘rationality’.Iran’s speaker of parliament Ali Larijani was quoted as saying by Iranian media on Sunday, reports The Jerusalem Post.US state secretary John Kerry and Russian