DHAKA: India’s BJP-led union government may announce its decision to confer the Bharat Ratna Award for former prime minister and veteran party leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Sources said, reports NDTV. The BJP has long demanded that the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour,

DHAKA: Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq’s Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north. Iraq’s human rights minister told media on Sunday, reports NDTV. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their

DHAKA: The formation of a ‘broad unity government’ in Iraq is critical to fighting jihadist expansion.French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday in Baghdad, reports The Straits Times.‘In this time, Iraq particularly needs a broad-based unity government because all

DHAKA: Pakistani police on Sunday charged a populist, anti-government cleric with murder after a policeman was killed during clashes with his supporters.The police constable was wounded in Lahore on Friday in confrontations with followers of Tahir-ul-Qadri, a religious moderate, and

DHAKA: China’s foreign minister Wang Yi called on Japan to ‘make practical efforts to overcome existing political obstacles between the two sides’ during an informal meeting with his Japanese counterpart during an Asean summit in Myanmar.According to a statement posted on the

DHAKA: Britain has begun airdropping food and water to thousands of civilians stranded on a mountain in northern Iraq after fleeing jihadist militants. The British development ministry said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times. Two British transport planes were deployed to the Sinjar

DHAKA: Asean foreign ministers, ‘seriously concerned’ over recent increased tension in the disputed South China Sea, have called for real progress on a long-delayed Code of Conduct (COC) among rival claimants.   They also called on Indonesia to ratify the Asean Agreement on

DHAKA: Typhoon Halong killed one person in Japan on Sunday and injured 33, media said, as authorities ordered 1.6 million people out of the path of the storm that battered the west of the country with heavy rain and wind. Authorities issued the highest typhoon alert and landslide

DHAKA: Voting is under way across Turkey for the country’s first ever presidential election put to a popular vote.Three candidates are vying for the position, including current prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.If none of the candidates gets above 50% of the vote, a second round will

DHAKA: Forty-eight people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed in the west of the Iranian capital Tehran, according to Iranian state TV. The aircraft, which was heading to the eastern city of Tabas, went down in a residential area near Mehrabad airport on Sunday morning,

    DHAKA: Malaysia Airlines is set to be nationalised in a bid to rescue the company still reeling after the MH17 and MH370 tragedies which cost 537 lives.Malaysian state wealth fund Khazanah National said on Friday that it planned to buy out minority shareholders in the company,

DHAKA: The US military said that it carried out four new air strikes on militants to defend civilians in northern Iraq.US Central Command said jet fighters and drones had destroyed armoured carriers and a truck that were firing on members of the Yazidi sect.Thousands of civilians fled

DHAKA: Iraqi Kurdish security forces have opened a road to Sinjar Mountain in northwestern Iraq, rescuing more than 5,000 Yazidis trapped there after running away from fighters from the Islamic State (IS) group, a Kurdish army spokesman has told Al Jazeera."I can confirm that we

DHAKA: A tour bus accident in southwest Tibet left at least 44 people dead in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region,  The bus was involved in a three-vehicle pileup along the National Highway in Nyemo County in Tibet. It crashed against a sports utility vehicle and a pickup truck, and then

DHAKA: Tens of thousands marked the 69th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Saturday, as the city’s pacifist mayor urged the Japanese government to listen to increasing concerns over controversial plans to expand the role of its military. Crowds gathered to remember

DHAKA: Tens of thousands marked the 69th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Saturday, as the city’s pacifist mayor urged the Japanese government to listen to increasing concerns over controversial plans to expand the role of its military. Crowds gathered to remember

DHAKA: At least four people have been killed in Pakistan’s Punjab province, in clashes between police and supporters of a leading anti-government cleric. Many have been wounded in the violence, which occurred after police blocked roads to the provincial capital Lahore. The cleric,

DHAKA: Hamas, the Islamist movement in de facto control of Gaza, vowed Saturday there would be no concessions to Israel. The group defies international attempts to broker a new ceasefire after fighting resumed. ‘There will be no going back, the resistance will continue,’ Hamas

DHAKA: Unites States president Barack Obama on Saturday vowed to continue air strikes against Iraqi jihadists if needed to protect US diplomats and military advisors. Speaking in his weekly address, Obama said that he had authorised the strikes in Iraq to protect US personnel serving in

DHAKA: The Iraqi government delivered a planeload of ammunition to Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, on Friday in an unprecedented act of military cooperation between Kurdish and Iraqi forces. A US official said, The Jerusalem Post publishes this report on