DHAKA: US president Barack Obama will host a town hall-style meeting in India on Tuesday, seeking to stress the shared values of the world’s largest democracies as he wraps up a visit aimed at reinvigorating their sometimes tense ties.The speech to around 1,500 young Indians comes

DHAKA: Australia faced a rise in temperature of potentially more than 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, an increase that would outpace global warming worldwide, the country’s national science agency said on Tuesday.In its most comprehensive

DHAKA: An emergency has been declared in several US states as a storm bringing hurricane-force winds and 90cm (36ins) of snow barrels down on the north-east.Boston, New York and Philadelphia began shutting down Monday evening (local time) as the flurries began, with the worst

DHAKA: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has announced plans to disband Argentina’s intelligence agency, reports BBC.In a TV address, she said she would draft a bill to set up a new body.Fernandez said the intelligence services had kept much of the same structure they had

DHAKA: Alexis Tsipras, leader of far-left Syriza party has sworn in as new Prime Minister of Greech after winning in the general election.He vowed to uphold the constitution and serve the Greek people, reports BBC.In a break with tradition, Tsipras took a secular oath, rather than the

DHAKA: Anti-austerity Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras has vowed to end Greece’s ‘five years of humiliation and pain’ after his general election win.Before cheering supporters, Tsipras again pledged to renegotiate Greece’s massive international bailout.With nearly all of the

DHAKA: The two sons of Hosni Mubarak have been released from jail, a day after the fourth anniversary of the uprising that ousted the former Egyptian president.Alaa and Gamal Mubarak walked free from Cairo’s Torah Prison shortly after daybreak on Monday and headed to their homes in

DHAKA: Almost 200 million people in East Asia moved to urban areas in the decade up to 2010, the World Bank said on Monday, creating a massive challenge to the region’s planners.About 36 percent of people in the region, which under the World Bank’s definition includes North-east

DHAKA: Indian president Pranab Mukherjee gave a stern assessment of India 65 years after it declared itself a republic, criticising parliamentary dysfunction and the overuse of decrees in a message that might also resonate with his visitor, United States president Barack Obama.In a

DHAKA: India is celebrating its 66th Republic Day on Monday with US president Barack Obama as chief guest.Four helicopters with the tricolour and the flags of the three services flew over a wet Rajpath as the Republic Day parade began this morning. US president Barack Obama is the

DHAKA: The geopolitical significance of an India-US entente could not be more evident as US president Barack Obama touched down on Sunday morning to be greeted by India prime minister Narendra Modi.With the two nations armed with a sense of ‘exceptionalism’, convergences in their

DHAKA: At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters across Egypt.Officials said, reports the BBC.Three police cadets were among the dead, and dozens of protesters were also injured, the officials said.The clashes follow the death of an activist in a march

DHAKA: Anti-austerity Syriza party has won Greece's general election, putting the country on a possible collision course with the EU over its massive bailout.With nearly 75% of the votes counted, Syriza is projected to win 149 seats, just two short of an absolute majority, though that

DHAAK: More than 30 police commandos have been killed in a clash with Muslim rebels while hunting a top terror suspect in the Philippines.Mayor Tahirudin Benzar Ampatuan of Mamasapano town said, reports The Hindu.Ampatuan said that dozens of police special action force members entered

DHAKA: A protester was killed in Egypt and a bomb wounded two policemen on Sunday, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, security sources said.The anniversary is a test of whether Islamists and liberal activists who have faced a tough security

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra and United States president Barack Obama announced they had reached an agreement Sunday to break the deadlock that has been stalling a civilian nuclear power agreement.‘I am pleased that six years after we signed our bilateral agreement, we are

DHAKA: Indian weavers are planning to give US First Lady Michelle Obama 100 hand-woven silk saris during her visit to New Delhi with her husband.A local businessman said on unday, reports The Straits Times.The weavers have spent months painstakingly making the garments which they hope

DHAKA: Pakistan was plunged into darkness after a key power transmission line broke down early on Sunday in an incident blamed on a rebel attack, the latest reminder of the country’s crippling energy crisis.The power failure, one of the worst Pakistan has experienced, caused

DHAKA: The American space agency’s (Nasa) mission to Pluto is about to get under way in earnest.Its New Horizons probe will take the first of a set of critical pictures on approach to the icy world on Sunday, reports the BBC.At a separation still of 200 million km, Pluto will be

DHAKA: Japan’s prime minister has condemned as ‘outrageous and unacceptable’ a video declaring the murder of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa by Islamic State.Shinzo Abe demanded the release of a second hostage, purported to be Kenji Goto, shown in the video. Japan says it is