DHAKA: Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Philip Hammond as foreign secretary on Tuesday as he reshuffles his cabinet ahead of the 2015 general election. ’Philip Hammond is the new Foreign Secretary,’ Cameron said on his official Twitter feed, reports The Jerusalem Post.

DHAKA: The Modi government is committed to lower taxes, India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley told The Times of India in his first interview to a newspaper after the Budget. It was an article of faith with him as well as the prime minister that lower taxes gave people money to spend

DHAKA; The newly-appointed chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) Yellapragada Sudershan Rao appears to be a votary of the caste system. In a blog written in 2007, Rao had said that the ‘positive aspects of Indian culture are so deep that the merits of ancient systems

DHAKA: A train has derailed in the Russian capital Moscow, killing at least three people, injuring many more and leaving some passengers trapped. Officials say, reports the BBC. A statement from the metro said only that a train derailed on the network’s blue line, without providing

DHAKA: The Philippines evacuated eastern coastal areas, suspended ferry services and closed schools in parts of the main Luzon island on Tuesday, as the strongest storm to hit the country since Typhoon Haiyan last year charted a direct course for the capital Manila. Typhoon Rammasun,

DHAKA: The United States signed an agreement with Qatar on Monday to sell the Gulf Arab ally Apache attack helicopters and Patriot and Javelin air-defense systems valued at $11 billion. It was the biggest U.S. arms sale so far this year, according to media reports. “Today’s signing

DHAKA: The deadly H1N1 virus has claimed the lives of 12 people at Kerala in India so far. The virus, which re-surfaced with the onset of monsoon, is usually at its peak during the rains. Doctors said that the recent spurt in the number of people suffering from swine flu was expected and

DHAKA: Israel has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a truce in the conflict in Gaza, BBC reported.      Hamas, which controls Gaza, has not formally responded. But its armed wing has rejected the plan as” surrender".                     The proposal urges a ceasefire

DHAKA: Nearly 10 million passengers used around 20 Brazilian airports in 31 days of the football World Cup. Air transport worked normally during the event despite the notable increase in airplane trips and the high demand from the passengers, reports the NDTV.com. Flying was the main

DHAKA: The unvaccinated children in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) continued to thwart global efforts to eradicate polio as National Institute of Health, Islamabad confirmed three new polio cases in Khyber Agency on Monday.      The new cases took the nationwide polio

DHAKA: US President Barack Obama told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday that he wants US-Chinese relations defined by more cooperation and a constructive management of differences, during a phone call in which Iran and North Korea were also discussed. The conversation between the

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit at Fortaleza in Brazil.They discussed various issues including the need to resolve the border dispute in an amicable manner, reports the NDTV on Tuesday.During the

DHAKA: British foreign secretary William Hague has quit from the post and will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the Commons, Downing Street has said.   Hague is to leave Parliament at the 2015 general election after 26 years as MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire, says BBC on Tuesday.  

DHAKA: Libya's main international airport Tripoli has been hit by a new rocket attack a day after fighting forced it to close on Monday.               At least one person was killed and six others injured in the attack and 12 planes were damaged in the attack, BBC reports.    

DHAKA: Egypt has proposed a ceasefire to end a week of cross-border fire between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The initiative urges a ceasefire starting early on Tuesday followed by a series of meetings in Cairo with high-level delegations from both sides.    However, an official from

DHAKA: A Ukrainian military transport aircraft has been shot down in the east, amid fighting with separatist rebels. Ukrainian officials say, reports the BBC. The An-26 plane was hit at an altitude of 6,500m, a statement on the presidential website said. It said the plane had been

DHAKA: Russia has invited monitors from the OSCE European security and rights body to two of its border crossings with Ukraine as a sign of goodwill. The foreign ministry said on Monday, reports The Straits Times. ‘In connection to the worsening situation in the region where Kiev is

DHAKA: A three-year-old girl who was pronounced dead in the Philippines has woken up at her own funeral.The Philippine Star reports, gulfnews.com says.The girl was declared clinically dead by medical personnel in Zamboanga del Sur, Mindanao, after suffering a fever, according to the

DHAKA: Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai is meeting Nigeria president Goodluck Jonathan to press for more action to free the more than 200 girls held by militant Islamists.The militants’ leader has reiterated in a new video message that he is prepared to negotiate a prisoner

DHAKA: Seven fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah were killed in fighting with Sunni Islamist insurgents in a mountainous area on the Syria-Lebanon border in which at least 16 rebels were also killed. A monitoring group reported on Monday, reports The Jerusalem Post. The Syrian