DHAKA: India on Tuesday hardened its stance further against the US for the humiliation meted out to its deputy consul general in New York Devyani Khobragade with Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi refusing to meet a visiting US congressional

DHAKA: Two children were among at least 13 people killed in new airstrikes on a rebel-held district of Syria’s main northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, activists said.It was the third straight day of air raids on the eastern Shaar neighbourhood of the city, Syria`s commercial hub before

DHAKA: Japan on Tuesday approved a plan to increase defence spending by 5 percent over the next five years to purchase its first surveillance drones, more jet fighters and naval destroyers in the face of China’s military expansion.The revised 5-year defence plan was adopted by the

DHAKA: A US judge has ruled the National Security Agency`s mass collection of telephone data unconstitutional.Federal District Judge Richard Leon said the electronic spy agency`s practice was an "arbitrary invasion".The agency`s collection of "metadata" including telephone numbers and

DHAKA: Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is to discuss closer co-operation with Russia, as protests continue in Ukraine over his move not to sign an EU deal.Securing badly needed loans and a discount on Russia`s gas are reportedly on the agenda when Yanukovych meets President Vladimir

DHAKA: The EU’s foreign ministers, who often fill their periodic conclusions on the “Middle East peace process” with vinegar toward Israel, decided this month to add some honey, promising unparalleled support for Israel and the Palestinians if a peace accord is signed.“The EU will

DHAKA: Unlike Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to China in May, which focused on economic issues, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is expected to focus his talks on Iran and the Israel-Palestinian negotiations.The visit is part of a wider regional trip that will take Wang to

DHAKA: Bangladesh, most beautiful and tragic of countries, today risks tearing itself apart in renewed vicious and deeply personal squabbles over its violent creation.It is as if the tormented ghosts of the country’s bloody past are rising to seek revenge. It is time for Bangladeshi and

DHAKA: Sixteen people have been killed in violence in China`s western region of Xinjiang, a state news portal says.The incident took place late on Sunday in a village near the city of Kashgar.The government-run regional news portal said police trying to make arrests were attacked by

DHAKA: The survivors of a Bangladesh factory fire, which killed at least 112 garment workers last year, are still suffering from their injuries and loss of income and have not received adequate compensation, Human Rights Watch said today. The brands that were sourcing garments from

DHAKA: The Irish authorities have asked the unemployed citizens to leave the country. This request is none other than a desperate attempt of the Irish authorities to reduce social security spending, ‘The Independent’ says.The Irish government has sent letters to approximately 6,000

DHAKA: Gunmen shot dead Al-Mosuliyah TV presenter Nawras al-Nuaimi in northern Iraq on Sunday.The station and police said, the latest in a series of journalists killed in the country, reports The Straits Times.Nuaimi was killed near her home in the city of Mosul, Al-Mosuliyah said.BDST:

DHAKA: From backpacker districts to high-end hotels, more than a month of opposition protests in the Thai capital are taking their toll on the kingdom’s tourism sector, with hundreds of thousands of travellers staying away.Dozens of countries have issued travel warnings related to the

DHAKA: The first United Nations aid flight from Iraq to Syria took off on Sunday after being delayed for several days due to bad weather.An AFP journalist said, reports daily Hurriyet.The plane departed the Arbil airport in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region around 3:30pm (1230 GMT), and

DHAKA: Pope Francis, responding to conservative criticism that his economic and social ideas smack of communism, said in an Italian newspaper interview on Sunday that he is not a Marxist but that even Marxists can be good people.Pope Francis also denied reports that he would name a woman

DHAKA: Israel allowed the entry of 450,000 litres of fuel, paid for by Qatar, into the Gaza Strip on Sunday to enable the Palestinian territory’s sole power plant to resume operations.Gaza’s 1.8 million people have been enduring daily blackouts of around 12 hours since the power plant

DHAKA: Thailand’s military offered on Sunday to help the politically polarised country hold a ‘fair and clean’ election next year, suggesting the armed forces may play a role in a vote aimed at ending protests seeking to topple the government.The idea was raised at a forum organised

DHAKA: Syrian rebel leaders said they would do all they could to protect journalists but were hampered by infighting, after international news organisations complained kidnappings were preventing full media coverage of the civil war.In a letter over the weekend, the western-backed Supreme

DHAKA: The European Union is suspending work on an Association Agreement with Ukraine after president Viktor Yanukovych failed to make a clear commitment to a later signing of the deal he ditched late last month.Brussels had told Ukraine that further discussions required a ‘clear

DHAKA: The leader of an autonomy movement in eastern Libya said on Sunday he will not order his militia troops to end the blockade of several oil-exporting ports.‘We will not reopen the ports,’ Ibrahim Jathran told reporters, adding talks with the Tripoli government to restart oil