DHAKA: As eight South Asian leaders meet in Kathmandu for a regional summit, the focus is on the tension between India and Pakistan. At the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) meeting, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is due to hold two-way talks with every

DHAKA: At least 63 people, half of them civilians, were killed when Syrian war planes struck the northeastern city of Raqqa on Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war in Syria said this, reports the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. Syrian government

DHAKA: Yemeni security forces have freed eight hostages, including six Yemenis, a Saudi and an Ethiopian, in a raid. Seven Al-Qaeda kidnappers were also killed in the raid, the country’s supreme security committee said. The committee said in a statement that a member of the Yemeni

DHAKA: At least 24 miners have been killed and 54 injured by an underground fire at a mine in China's north-eastern Liaoning province. The mine is operated by the state-owned Liaoning Fuxin Coal Corporation, said the Xinhua.  The cause of the fire is not immediately clear, but the

DHAKA: Police in Hong Kong say more than 80 people have been arrested overnight in clashes with pro-democracy protesters. The unrest came as the authorities, acting on a court order, began dismantling a protest camp in the Mong Kok commercial district. The removal began peacefully on

DHAKA: The US state of Missouri has ordered more troops to the Ferguson area to quell unrest after a policeman was cleared over Michael Brown's killing. State governor Jay Nixon said 2,200 National Guard would be deployed in and around the St Louis suburb on Tuesday, reports BBC.

DHAKA: At least 19 militants were killed and eight others were injured on Tuesday in air strikes in Dattakhel area of Pakistan’s North Waziristan.According to official sources, the latest airstrikes come as military operation Zarb-i-Azb is under way in the tribal region, reports the

DHAKA: A teenage Pakistani girl was shot dead by her uncle following a row over loud music in the Kallar Kahar valley in Punjab province’s Chakwal district of Pakistan.The Pakistani police said on Tuesday which reports the Times of India.The incident happened on Saturday in the area

DHAKA: Voters are going to the polls in India’s Jammu and Kashmir state where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP is trying to win power for the first time.More than a million people are eligible to vote in the first of five phases in staggered elections for the Muslim-majority

DHAKA: At least 13 people were killed and several were feared trapped after an eight-story building collapsed in the western Cairo suburb of Matariya.The Egyptian police officials said this which reports Aljazeera.The officials said that eight residents of the building were also injured

DHAKA: More than 60 people were killed in two explosions at a crowded market in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday.The twin bomb hit the market in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, the sources said.Hospitals have been flooded with injured residents, reports Aljazeera.Market trader

DHAKA: The US town of Ferguson has seen rioting and looting after a jury decided not to bring charges over the killing of a black teenager.A police chief said violence in the suburb of St Louis, Missouri, was ‘probably much worse’ than on any night since the teenager’s death.St

DHAKA: An inquiry into the fire on board Navy submarine INS Sindhuratna in February this year has “found seven officers culpable of various acts of omissions and commissions”.Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar made the disclosure in Parliament on Tuesday.Parrikar said in his

DHAKA: A grand jury has decided not to charge a Missouri police officer over the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, reports BBC.Announcing the decision, state prosecutor Robert McCulloch said the jury had exhaustively examined the evidence.Brown's family said they were

DHAKA: The deadline for an Iran nuclear deal has been extended to the end of June after talks in Vienna failed to reach a comprehensive agreement.Diplomats say, reports the BBC.UK foreign secretary Philip Hammond said good progress had been made, but it was ‘not possible to get an

DHAKA: About 100 people were slaughtered last week in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the latest massacre to shake the restive region.Lawmakers told the media on Monday, reports The Straits Times.The carnage took place on Thursday near Beni in the North Kivu province,

DHAKA: Hong Kong authorities may start clearing the site in the Mong Kok district where pro-democracy protesters have camped out for more than a month in their ‘Occupy’ campaign to fight for universal suffrage.The protesters, who have been occupying a long stretch of Nathan Road in

DHAKA: Pakistan has the fastest growing nuclear weapons programme in the world and by 2020 it could have enough fissile material to produce more than 200 nuclear devices.A top American think tank has said, reports gulfnews.com.‘Though many states are downsizing their stockpiles, Asia

DHAKA: China has begun generating electricity from Tibet’s biggest ever hydropower project, state-run media reported, the latest dam development on Himalayan rivers that has prompted concern in neighbouring India.The first generating unit of the 9.6 billion yuan Zangmu Hydropower

DHAKA: Russia is set to lose around US$40 billion per year due to Western sanctions over Ukraine.Russia finance minister Anton Siluanov said Monday.‘We are losing around US$40 billion per year due to geopolitical sanctions and we are losing some US$90 to US$100 billion per year due to