DHAKA: The geopolitical significance of an India-US entente could not be more evident as US president Barack Obama touched down on Sunday morning to be greeted by India prime minister Narendra Modi.With the two nations armed with a sense of ‘exceptionalism’, convergences in their

DHAKA: At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters across Egypt.Officials said, reports the BBC.Three police cadets were among the dead, and dozens of protesters were also injured, the officials said.The clashes follow the death of an activist in a march

DHAKA: Anti-austerity Syriza party has won Greece's general election, putting the country on a possible collision course with the EU over its massive bailout.With nearly 75% of the votes counted, Syriza is projected to win 149 seats, just two short of an absolute majority, though that

DHAAK: More than 30 police commandos have been killed in a clash with Muslim rebels while hunting a top terror suspect in the Philippines.Mayor Tahirudin Benzar Ampatuan of Mamasapano town said, reports The Hindu.Ampatuan said that dozens of police special action force members entered

DHAKA: A protester was killed in Egypt and a bomb wounded two policemen on Sunday, the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak, security sources said.The anniversary is a test of whether Islamists and liberal activists who have faced a tough security

DHAKA: India prime minister Narendra and United States president Barack Obama announced they had reached an agreement Sunday to break the deadlock that has been stalling a civilian nuclear power agreement.‘I am pleased that six years after we signed our bilateral agreement, we are

DHAKA: Indian weavers are planning to give US First Lady Michelle Obama 100 hand-woven silk saris during her visit to New Delhi with her husband.A local businessman said on unday, reports The Straits Times.The weavers have spent months painstakingly making the garments which they hope

DHAKA: Pakistan was plunged into darkness after a key power transmission line broke down early on Sunday in an incident blamed on a rebel attack, the latest reminder of the country’s crippling energy crisis.The power failure, one of the worst Pakistan has experienced, caused

DHAKA: The American space agency’s (Nasa) mission to Pluto is about to get under way in earnest.Its New Horizons probe will take the first of a set of critical pictures on approach to the icy world on Sunday, reports the BBC.At a separation still of 200 million km, Pluto will be

DHAKA: Japan’s prime minister has condemned as ‘outrageous and unacceptable’ a video declaring the murder of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa by Islamic State.Shinzo Abe demanded the release of a second hostage, purported to be Kenji Goto, shown in the video. Japan says it is

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have landed in Delhi on a three-day visit to India. In a departure from protocol, Prime Minster Narendra Modi received them at the airport.BDST: 1028 HRS, JAN 25, 2015

DHAKA: A camel astonished residents in a small Yemeni village when it refused to leave the grave of its recently-buried owner for six days.Witnesses in Sidah village, Ibb province, said the sad camel walked in the funeral procession of its owner, Ali Al Na’ana, and refused to leave

DHAKA: Syrian government air raids have killed at least 42 people in a rebel-held village near Damascus.Activists and a group monitoring the violence have said, Al Jazeera reports on Saturday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported a ‘massacre’ against the village of

DHAKA: Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets on Saturday in the biggest demonstration yet against the Houthi group that dominates Yemen, two days after president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s resignation left the country in political limbo.Witnesses said up to 10,000 people began

DHAKA: At least 10 people died Saturday when heavy rockets fell on residential districts of Ukraine’s strategic government-held port of Mariupol in the wake of Russian-backed rebels’ rejection of peace talks.The police chief of the war-torn region of Donetsk said the long-range

DHAKA: Myanmar’s military freed more than 400 child soldiers last year, the United Nations has confirmed, a record number since the ‘tatmadaw’ army signed a 2012 pact with the UN on the issue. There are no verifiable figures on how many children are currently serving in Myanmar’s

DHAKA: World leaders are due to arrive in Saudi Arabia to pay their respects in person after the death on Friday of King Abdullah. British prime minister David Cameron and French president Francois Hollande will be in Riyadh. The US delegation is led by vice-president Joe Biden. King

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, a close friend of the United States and a scourge of Islamist militants, will be the country's first king from the third generation of its ruling dynasty.King Salman moved swiftly to appoint Mohammed Deputy Crown

DHAKA: Leaders of the Muslim world and thousands of Saudi subjects paid their final respects to King Abdullah at a simple ceremony at a Riyadh mosque Friday before the late ruler was buried in an unmarked grave in a public cemetery.According to latimes.com, in accordance with royal

DHAKA: At least two persons, including a woman were killed, and 17 others injured on Friday in a bomb blast in the premises of civil court at Ara in India’s Bihar.Police officials said that a woman, who was killed in the blast, was carrying the crude bomb which suddenly went off