DHAKA: India’s Prime minister-elect Narendra Modi’s first official visit as head of government will likely be to Dhaka, where he is expected to sign the much-awaited Teesta water-sharing agreement with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The issue was discussed at length during

DHAKA: The Netherlands will send a top diplomat to Saudi Arabia to prevent the country from imposing trade sanctions in protest at anti-Islamic stickers printed in the colours of the Saudi flag by a Dutch far-right politician. The foreign ministry said, reports The Straits Times. The

DHAKA: In a historic judgment, the Meghalaya high court has said that Bangladesh nationals who have settled in this northeastern state before March 24, 1971 should be treated as Indians and they be enrolled in the voters list. The judgment was based on a petition by over 40 refugees who

DHAKA: India’s prime minister-elect Narendra Modi has invited Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif as well as other South Asian leaders to his swearing-in ceremony next Monday.A spokeswoman for his party told media, reports The Times of India.Nirmala Sitharaman, from the Bharatiya

DHAKA: Armed men have killed at least 16 policemen in Afghanistan, beheading eight of them, according to officials, as security forces prepare to guard a second-round election. Villagers in the southern province of Zabul found the decapitated bodies of eight local policemen who were

DHAKA: Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has signed multi-billion dollar, 30-year gas deal with China. The deal between Russia’s Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has been 10 years in the making. No official price has been given but it estimated to be worth over

DHAKA: India’s Aam Aadmi Party (APP) chief Arvind Kejriwal has been sent to judicial custody for two days in connection with the defamation complaint filed against him by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari. He will be taken to Tihar jail, reports The Times of India. The action was taken after

DHAKA: Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing public funds, in a case locally known as the ‘Presidential palaces case’, three years after he was toppled by massive protests. Cairo’s Criminal Court also sentenced his sons,

DHAKA: Shelling by the Pakistan Army’s gunship helicopters and fighter jets in the early hours of Wednesday killed at least 50 suspected militants and injured another 80, some critically, in several parts of Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region. DawnNews reported. The sources

DHAKA: The Philippines is no longer the ‘sick man of Asia’, as it is now a ‘viable destination for investments and tourists’, the country’s president Benigno Aquino said on Wednesday during a courtesy call by the chief executives of South-east Asia’s biggest companies. ‘No

DHAKA: Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima on Wednesday called upon the country’s businessmen to extend trade to the Eastern countries. The envoy said, “The businesspeople of Bangladesh are extending their trades to the western countries including the American and the

DHAKA: Heads of governments of the SAARC members’ countries have been invited to join swearing-in ceremony of newly Indian Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi to be held on May 26. But Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would not be able to join the program as she will be visiting Japan from

DHAKA: Air strikes in Pakistan have killed at least 32 militants in North Waziristan including ‘important commanders’. Officials described precision air strikes on targets near the border with Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have died in bomb attacks since the Pakistani

DHAKA: A former Polish war refugee who met Prince Charles in Canada has said he likened some Nazi actions in Europe to those of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Marienne Ferguson was speaking after meeting Prince Charles at a Nova Scotia immigration museum where she works. As they discussed

DHAKA: Thailand’s army chief is to hold talks with key players in the political crisis, a day after declaring martial law in the protest-hit nation. General Prayuth Chan-Ocha has asked to meet the government, the Senate speaker and the two main protest factions. After the talks it

DHAKA: Thousands of police in at least 14 Brazilian states are holding a one-day strike over pay. The strike takes place less than a month before the beginning of the football World Cup, in another hiccup in preparations for the event. The industrial action affects several World Cup

DHAKA: Narendra Modi, who will be sworn in as India's Prime Minister on Monday, is expected to resign as chief minister around 3pm Wednesday after attending a special session of the state legislative assembly where he will be given a farewell. Later at 4 pm he will attend the meeting of

DHAKA:  At least 118 people were killed Tuesday in twin blasts at a market in the central Nigerian city of Jos, an official said, warning the toll could climb. The explosions, which targeted Terminus market, went off some 20 to 30 minutes apart, setting fire to the entire venue, reports

DHAKA: Nigeria has formally asked the UN Security Council al Qaeda sanctions committee to blacklist the Islamist militant group Boko Haram after the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls. UN diplomats said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. If there is no objection by the 15-member

DHAKA: Russia and Western powers are on the brink of a new Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine. Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. ‘Basically we are slowly but surely approaching a second Cold War that nobody