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

DHAKA: One of two British explorer ships that vanished in the Arctic more than 160 years ago has been found, Canada's prime minister says. Stephen Harper said it was unclear which ship had been found, but photo evidence confirmed it was one of them. Sir John Franklin led the two ships

DHAKA: A massive explosion has rocked a chemical waste facility near Bremen in northwestern Germany, polic say. Police told the DPA news agency that one person was severely burned in the blast on Tuesday night and that the explosion damaged a nearby residential area.  The injured man

DHAKA: Authorities in Haiti say 23 people died and 32 were injured in a bus accident west of the capital of Port-au-Prince. Nadia Lochard with the Civil Protection Agency says the bus went down a ravine after the driver apparently lost control late Tuesday in the coastal town of

DHAKA: At least nine worshippers were killed when the roof of a mosque collapsed in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore Tuesday. Pakistan officials said, adding the death toll may rise, Yahoo News reports. The incident took place in Daroghawala, a low-income neighborhood in the outer

DHAKA: Police in Yemen have shot at anti-government Shia protesters in the capital, Sanaa, killing at least one person. Witnesses say, reports the BBC. In recent days, thousands of Houthi demonstrators have intensified weeks of protests on the outskirts of the city. They have held

DHAKA: Steven Sotloff, the American journalist and holder of Israeli citizenship who was brutally executed by Islamic State militants last week, was sold to the extremist jihadist group by a Syrian rebel organization. The spokesperson for the Sotloff family told CNN on Monday, The

DHAKA: An official in the Gaza Strip says the Israeli navy has arrested four Palestinian fishermen and seized their boat in one of the first instances of friction between the sides since the Gaza war ended last month.Nizar Ayyash of the Gaza Fishermen’s Union says the incident

DHAKA: Dutch experts say Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 broke up in mid-air after being hit by ‘numerous objects’ that ‘pierced the plane at high speed’. A report released by the Dutch Safety Board said there was ‘no evidence of technical or human error’, reports the BBC. All

DHAKA: Chinese president Xi Jinping will make his first visit to India as head of state on a regional visit starting this week which will also take in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Tajikistan.China foreign ministry said on Tuesday, reports The Jerusalem Post.Xi will begin his trip in

DHAKA: Suspected Taliban militants attacked a Karachi naval dockyard in a weekend raid which left a Pakistani officer and two insurgents dead. Pakistan officials said on Tuesday, reports The Straits Times. An officer and six sailors were also wounded in the attack early on Saturday on

DHAKA: Ebola is spreading exponentially in Liberia, with thousands of new cases expected in the next three weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. Conventional methods to control the outbreak were "not having an adequate impact", the UN's health agency added. At least 2,100