DHAKA: In another successful demonstration of the missile programme, the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) successfully fired the short range Agni-1 missile propelled by a solid rocket propellant system, from Wheeler’s Island, off Odisha’s coast, on Thursday.The missile, which has a

DHAKA: Myanmar on Thursday lifted a curfew imposed in June 2012 when clashes between Buddhists and minority Muslims erupted throughout western Rakhine state, killing at least 192 people that year.Most victims of the violence were Muslim Rohingyas, who live under apartheid-like

DHAKA: The Syrian rebel group the Nusra Front has released all UN peacekeepers from Fiji, Al Jazeera has learned. The 44 peacekeepers were expected to cross from Syria into the Israeli side of the Golan Heights. On Wednesday the group posted a video on its Twitter and YouTube accounts

DHAKA: Syria’s Western-backed National Coalition opposition  (SNC) on Thursday urged US Congress to approve as soon as possible president Barack Obama’s policy on Islamic State militants after he authorized US airstrikes for the first time in Syria.‘The Syrian Coalition ...

DHAKA: Saudi Arabia has indicated it would be willing to host a training program for moderate Syrian opposition fighters.American officials told the New York Times on Wednesday night, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on Thursday.A senior State Department official told the Times

DHAKA: Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front has said it will free 45 Fijian UN peacekeepers whom it kidnapped after the capture of a border crossing with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. In a video released late Wednesday through its media wing, the group said it had consulted

DHAKA: Thailand’s military government has engaged in ‘widespread’ human rights violations since the May coup.Amnesty International says, reports the BBC.In a report, the rights group cited arbitrary detentions, a clampdown on free speech, allegations of beatings and unfair trials

DHAKA: Emergency teams in the Pakistani city of Lahore said that they recovered 24 bodies from rubble at a mosque a day after its roof collapsed. BBC reports.  At least seven others were rescued from the building, and rescuers are still searching debris. The disaster in the low-income,

DHAKA: At least 11 Afghan civilians including women and children have been killed and 16 injured in a Nato airstrike in the eastern province of Kunar, in Afghanistan, BBC reports.  The airstrike took place in Narang district after local police and soldiers came under attack, they said.

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama says he will not hesitate to take action against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria as well as Iraq. In a nationally televised speech outlining his strategy against IS, he said that any group that threatened America would "find no safe heaven". He

DHAKA: At least five people have been killed after parts of a wall collapsed in the western Saudi city of Makkah on Wednesday. ‘The rescue teams are still deploying efforts to make sure there are no more victims at the site,’ Jameel Arbaeen, the general director of Makkah civil

DHAKA: The police on Wednesday charged the president of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Amit Shah, with inflaming religious tensions during the national election campaign, an officer said. ‘The charge sheet against Amit Shah has been filed by the investigating

DHAKA: Pakistan’s largest city Karachi, home to around 18 million people, could be ‘wiped out’ by a tsunami. Officials said on Wednesday after a drill simulating a major earthquake in the Indian Ocean, reports The Straits Times. The test, which one carried out a day earlier

DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has reassured Iraq’s new leader that there will be an international strategy to defeat Islamic State (IS) militants. Kerry, on a Middle East tour, said US president Barack Obama would outline the strategy later, reports the BBC. He praised PM

DHAKA: Russia carried out a successful test of its new Bulava intercontinental nuclear missile on Wednesday and will perform two more test launches in October and November. The head of its naval forces said, reports The Jerusalem Post. The 12-metre long Bulava, or mace, has undergone

DHAKA: UK prime minister David Cameron has made an impassioned plea to keep Scotland in the Union, saying, ‘I love my country more than I love my party’. Campaigning in Edinburgh, he said the 18 September independence referendum was about more than being ‘fed up with the effing

DHAKA: US secretary of state John Kerry has landed in Baghdad in Iraq at the start of a Middle East tour to build support for action against Islamic State (IS). Kerry is due to meet new Iraqi PM Haidar al-Abadi less than 48 hours after a unity government was agreed, reports the BBC. An

DHAKA: More than half of Chinese people think their country could go to war with Japan in the future after two years of intense diplomatic squabbles.A new poll revealed on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.A survey conducted in both nations found that 53.4 percent of Chinese

DHAKA: A US father is suspected of killing his five children and dumping their bodies in another state.Police have said, reports the BBC.Timothy Ray Jones faces multiples charges in his home state of South Carolina.He was arrested on Saturday in Mississippi on unrelated charges.The

DHAKA: The leader of one of Syria's most powerful rebel groups has been killed along with dozens of other commanders in a bomb attack on a high-level meeting in Idlib province.Hassan Abboud, the head of the Ahrar al-Sham brigade, was among up to 45 people killed on Tuesday at the