DHAKA: After claiming that Jawaharlal Nehru had called Sardar Patel a ‘total communalist’, BJP leader LK Advani on Thursday stoked a fresh controversy saying the then prime minister was reluctant to send army to Kashmir in 1947 even as Pakistani troops approached, but the home

DHAKA: Pakistan’s Taliban have named Mullah Fazlullah as their new leader, after the death of Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone attack, a spokesman has said.Mullah Fazlullah, a hardline commander from the Swat area, was chosen after a conference in north-west Pakistan.Mehsud was killed when

DHAKA: The commander of the M23 rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has surrendered in Uganda, sources have told the BBC.Sultani Makenga is said to have handed himself over along with hundreds of M23 fighters in the Mgahinga National Park.Neither government has so far

DHAKA: Prince Charles and his wife Camilla visited a military academy Thursday on the first full day of their Indian tour which began with garlands and a blessing beside the River Ganges.The royal pair wore strings of jasmine and marigold flowers at a welcoming ceremony on Wednesday

DHAKA: A senior Kuwait foreign ministry official has denied reports that his country would take the UN Security Council seat that Saudi Arabia has rejected.‘The report that Kuwait would take the seat is not true,’ Khalid Al Jarallah, the ministry undersecretary, said on Thursday,

DHAKA: Syrian troops have retaken a key rebel-held town south of Damascus, state media and activists say.State TV said the army had full control of Sbeineh and that ‘terrorists’ had been driven out, reports the BBC.UK-based activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said

DHAKA: Talks between Iran and world powers on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme have begun in Geneva, with both sides expressing cautious optimism.It is the second round of talks since a new Iranian president took office in August with a more conciliatory stance.A spokesman for the

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has reportedly financed Pakistani-developed nuclear weapons, and the kingdom devises Islamabad will provide it atomic bombs upon request.The BBC reported Wednesday night, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on Thursday.The Gulf states have been concerned about

DHAKA: At least two people were shot dead and seven others wounded when a gunman opened fire on Wednesday evening at a busy intersection outside a barbershop in Detroit, police said.The barbershop where the shooting happened has a reputation for gambling, but it was too early to tell

DHAKA: Philippine officials said on Thursday that thousands of villagers, including those from a central province devastated recently by an earthquake, are being evacuated as one of Asia’s most powerful typhoons this year approaches.Typhoon ‘Haiyan’ was already packing sustained

DHAKA: Lawyers for apartheid icon Nelson Mandela’s eldest grandson said they have gone to court over unpaid legal fees after a well-publicised court feud with relatives while the peace icon lay in hospital.Mandla Mandela owes Randall Titus & Associates ‘approximately half a million

DHAKA: Iran’s foreign minister has expressed cautious optimism about upcoming talks on Iran`s nuclear programme, saying the issue is ‘not insoluble’.World powers and Iran are due to meet in Geneva later on Thursday for a further round of discussions.Iran foreign minister Javad Zarif

DHAKA: Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been released from house arrest and is free to move around the country, prison officials say.It comes days after he was bailed over the 2007 army operation to oust militants from Islamabad’s Red Mosque, the last legal case

FROM KUALA LUMPUR: Through social business Malaysia is now initiating mission to change the world. Arranging fifth Global Social Business Summit (GSBS), Malaysia, also known as Asian tiger, wants to change the format of social business.    The social business which was started by Nobel

DHAKA: Swiss scientists who conducted tests on samples taken from Yasser Arafat’s body have found at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive polonium in his remains. The scientists said that they were confident up to an 83 percent level that the late Palestinian leader was

DHAKA: The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with radioactive polonium, says a Swiss forensic report obtained by al-Jazeera.Arafat`s official medical records say he died in 2004 from a stroke resulting from a blood disorder.But his body was exhumed last year

DHAKA: A bomb exploded in a central square of Damascus on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding several othersSyria’s state news agency said, reports The Jerusalem Post.The SANA report said the blast hit Hejaz square, in the heart of the capital, but offered no further details as

DHAKA: Kazakhstan foreign minister Yerlan Idrisov said he does not rule out the possibility that the final round of the negotiations between Iran and the international Sextet (five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) on the Iranian nuclear programme will be held in

DHAKA: Enlisting the help of a computer-generated 10-year-old Philippine girl, Dutch children’s rights activists turned online sex predators into their prey.In an online sting operated from an anonymous warehouse office in an Amsterdam industrial park, activists from Terre des Hommes

DHAKA: Chinese cities should close schools, cut working hours and stop outdoor activities during the most severe spells of air pollution.China’s environmental protection ministry said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.‘Every possible compulsory measure’ must be taken to cut