DHAKA: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of India’s union minister Shashi Tharoor, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a five star hotel in New Delhi Friday night, was cremated on Saturday.The last rites of Pushkar, 52, were performed at the Lodhi Road crematorium, reports The

DHAKA: A South African teacher being held hostage in Yemen and whose kidnappers had threatened to kill him is still alive but in poor health.An organisation working to free him said on Saturday, reports The Straits Times.English teacher Pierre Korkie, 56, was abducted along with his wife

DHAKA: Close to 400 priests were defrocked in only two years by the former Pope Benedict XVI over claims of child abuse, the Vatican has confirmed.The statistics for 2011 and 2012 show a dramatic increase compared with previous years, according to a document obtained by the Associated

DHAKA: In a breezy Bangkok park rimmed by high-end hotels and shopping malls, immaculately-dressed women cradle lit candles and sing John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’.‘Respect my vote,’ they declare on the home-made placards they hold high, reports The Straits Times.Just 400m down the

DHAKA: An Iranian diplomat was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting outside the ambassador`s residence in the Yemeni capital on Saturday.A Yemeni medic said, reports The Straits Times.‘The Iranian diplomat has died of his wounds,’ the medic at Sanaa’s German Modern Hospital

DHAKA: The wife of Indian minister Shashi Tharoor, found dead in a Delhi hotel room on Friday, died a ‘sudden and unnatural death’, an autopsy has found.Doctors said there were ‘injury marks’ on Sunanda Pushkar’s body, but did not say if they were linked to her death, reports

DHAKA: The opposition Syrian National Coalition is due to discuss whether it will attend a peace summit in Geneva next week, after the Syrian government said it had offered a limited ceasefire and prisoner swap in anticipation of talks.The SNC was due to meet on Saturday in Istanbul, a

DHAKA: Myanmar’s army has freed 96 children and young people from its armed forces, the United Nations said on Saturday, hailing a ‘historic step’ towards ending the use of child soldiers in the formerly junta-run nation.The move was the largest single release of child recruits

DHAKA: Al Qaeda and other insurgent groups have tightened their grip on Fallujah, defying the Shia-led Iraqi government’s efforts to persuade local tribesmen to expel them from the Sunni Muslim city.Falluja residents and officials say, reports TDS.Despite an army siege, fighters and

DHAKA: The death toll in days of floods and landslides in Indonesia has climbed to 23, an official said Saturday, as torrential rain pounded the capital.Families in Jakarta neighbourhoods waded through murky chest-high flood waters, clutching their belongings, while others were ferried to

DHAKA: South Korean president Park Geun Hye on Saturday ordered the military to boost border security to protect the country against potential provocations by North Korea, unswayed by Pyongyang’s latest peace overture.Park’s orders followed the North’s surprise offer on Thursday for

DHAKA: United States president Barack Obama has directed the National Security Agency not to listen in on the phone calls of the foreign heads of friendly countries.Delivering a speech outlining a raft of reforms to the NSA’s controversial intelligence collection practices, he said he

AGARTALA, TRIPURA: Boundary pillars will be installed between Bangladesh and Tripura, one of the provinces of India, border with a view to resolving a 50-year dispute of Muhurirchar.Following the decision, people of the both countries living in the frontier area have expressed content as

DHAKA: A total of 21 people, including 13 foreigners, died in a Taliban suicide assault on a popular restaurant in Kabul, police said on Saturday, with two British citizens and two Canadians among those confirmed dead.Desperate customers tried to hide under tables as one attacker

DHAKA: At least 18 people were killed in a stampede that broke out in the early hours of Saturday near the Malabar Hill residence of Dawoodi Bohra spiritual leader Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, who died on Friday morning, officials said.According to the police and BMC Disaster Control

DHAKA: The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killing of three employees of a local private television network in Karachi.The claim was made after motorcycle-borne assailants shot a technician, guard and driver working for Express TV on Friday, according to the TV

DHAKA: Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, wife of union minister Shashi Tharoor, was found dead at the five-star The Leela Palace Hotel in Delhi on Friday evening.The incident took place two days after she said she was deeply disturbed by an alleged affair her husband was having with a Pakistani

DHAKA: An attack on a restaurant in Kabul apparently carried out by the Afghan Taliban has killed at least 16 people, including four UN employees and the International Monetary Fund`s resident representative.The assailants targeted Taverna du Liban, a Lebanese restaurant popular with

DHAKA: Australia has apologised to Indonesia after its navy vessels "inadvertently" entered Indonesian waters while on operations to stop asylum seekers.Immigration Minister Scott Morrison said Australia "deeply" regretted the events, adding the foreign minister would offer an

DHAKA: Dozens of wildfires were burning out of control in heatwave conditions across southern Australia, with at least one person confirmed dead.Fire authorities on Friday said 68 fires were burning across Victoria state and another 16 were blazing across neighboring South Australia