DHAKA: The subdivisional magistrate, probing the death of Sunanda Pushkar, directed the police on Tuesday to investigate the case thoroughly including the murder and suicide angles after he categorically pin-pointed ‘poisoning’ as the reason behind the sensational

DHAKA: Showing no signs of relenting, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday ruled out negotiations to end the stand-off with the Centre and threatened to flood Rajpath with lakhs of supporters that can disrupt Republic Day celebrations.Demanding action against policemen who

DHAKA: Iraq has hanged 26 people convicted of ‘terrorism’ offences, the Justice Ministry announced on Tuesday, pursuing a practice of mass executions despite international criticism.All those executed on Sunday were Iraqi nationals. Among them was Adel al-Mashhadani, a ‘Sahwa’

DHAKA: The world’s wealthiest people aren’t known for travelling by bus, but if they fancied a change of scene then the richest 85 people on the globe, who between them control as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population put together, could squeeze onto a single

DHAKA: Turkey’s embattled prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan began his first visit to Brussels in five years on Tuesday aiming to reboot his country’s stuttering bid to embrace the European Union.Erdogan’s long-awaited high-profile visit to EU headquarters comes as Turkey faces its

DHAKA: No one in Mandla Maseko’s family has ever stepped outside South Africa, but the young township DJ is set to rocket into space next year.From the dusty district of Mabopane, near Pretoria, 25-year-old Maseko has landed a coveted seat to fly 103 kilometres into space in 2015, after

DHAKA: Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that protests in Ukraine are ‘getting out of control’.He described violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police as ‘scary’ and accused EU politicians of stirring up the situation.There has been a second

DHAKA: Four people were killed in an apparent suicide car bombing in south Beirut on Tuesday, in the latest in a string of attacks targeting strongholds of Lebanon’s Shia movement Hezbollah.The blast was quickly claimed by Al-Nusra Front in Lebanon, a group believed to be linked to

DHAKA: Israel’s government has approved plans to build 381 new settler homes in annexed east Jerusalem.Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now told media on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times.‘The Israeli civil administration, which falls under the defence ministry, has published plans

DHAKA: Pakistani police have arrested three men and seized 100 kilograms of explosives in a raid in the capital Islamabad, officers said on Tuesday, following two deadly Taliban attacks on military targets.The swoop on Monday at a house in Tarnol, in the city’s southwest, also recovered

DHAKA: The Thai government has imposed a 60-day state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding provinces from Wednesday to help contain a protest movement that has blockaded parts of the capital to try to force prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to resign.Visarn Techateerawat, the deputy

DHAKA: After spending the night sleeping on a road in the heart  Delhi, the state’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal woke up to rain and chilly winds Tuesday morning but vowed to escalate his sit-in protest against a police force that he describes as ‘compromised’.Kejriwal, 45,

DHAKA: Two people were killed in a suicide car bombing in a south Beirut neighbourhood considered a stronghold of the Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah.Lebanon’s official news agency said, reports The Straits Times.‘Suicide bomber blows himself up in a car... in Haret Hreik, two people

DHAKA: Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday the United Nations had abruptly withdrawn Tehran’s invitation to highly anticipated peace talks on Syria ‘under pressure’.‘We regret that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has withdrawn the invitation under

DHAKA: Hamas has reportedly deployed hundreds of forces along the border fence with Israel to allegedly deter escalations of violence in the South and prevent further rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel.Israel Radio reports, The Jerusalem Post says.In light of the recent slew of

DHAKA: A Shia militia leader arrested in Iraq after his group fired mortars into Saudi Arabia has said leaders of prime minister Nuri al-Maliki’s political bloc will be killed unless he is released within 24 hours.Wathiq al-Battat, speaking on a mobile phone he said had been given him

DHAKA: The UN secretary-general has withdrawn his invitation to Iran to join this week’s Syria peace talks, saying he is ‘deeply disappointed’ by Iran’s statements on Monday.A spokesman for Ban Ki-moon announced the withdrawal less than 24 hours after Ban surprised the US and

DHAKA: Indian minister Shashi Tharoor has been cleared of any involvement in the death of his wife.Police sources said, reports The Straits Times.Tharoor, 57, has been cleared based on testimony by a witness who saw Sunanda Pushkar alive two hours after Tharoor had left the five-star

DHAKA: Seven bomb explosions have killed 28 people and wounded 67 in the Iraqi capital, police and medics said, as security forces battled fighters around the western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi.The bloodiest attack on Monday occurred in the mainly Shia Muslim Abu Dsheer district in

DHAKA: Two car bombs hit a rebel-held border post in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib on Monday, opposition activists and fighters said, killing at least 10 people and closing the frontier.The Bab al-Hawa crossing is held by a rebel alliance called the Islamic Front, which have been