DHAKA: Two pandas from China have arrived in Malaysia as Beijing looks to build ties amid regional tensions. The eight-year-old pandas will be housed in a 1.6 hectare air-conditioned complex at the national zoo. China agreed to loan them to Malaysia to mark 40 years of diplomatic ties

DHAKA: The United States has deployed a drone and 80 troops to Chad to help with regional efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in neighbouring Nigeria. Officials said on Wednesday, The Times of India publishes this report on Thursday. ‘These personnel will support the

DHAKA: Arvind Kejriwal’s first night in Tihar was spent in jail number 4, where Anna Hazare was briefly lodged after his arrest in 2011. Although the Aam Aadmi Party leader was detained several times as an activist, this is the first time he has been handed a stay in jail by a court,

DHAKA: Syrian forces have broken a year-long rebel siege of a prison in the northern city of Aleppo. UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say forces entered the complex, although this has not been confirmed. Thousands of inmates are held in the prison, which has been the scene

DHAKA: India’s ultra-religious group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has resumed its training camps after a long break when it diverted its cadre towards the goal of accomplishing regime change in Delhi. In the Sangh’s scheme of things, training activities are supposed to be a

DHAKA: A Russian diplomat is to meet a Foreign Office official to discuss comments reportedly made by the Prince of Wales about President Vladimir Putin. Prince Charles is said to have likened some Nazi actions in Europe to Putin’s policies, during a conversation with a former Polish

DHAKA: The leader of Thailand’s pro-government ‘Red Shirt’ movement called Thursday for a national referendum to resolve a political deadlock that prompted the army chief to declare martial law. Jatuporn Prompan said he made the proposal a day earlier during closed-door talks

DHAKA: A 25-year-old woman who went missing 10 years ago in California has told police she was forced to marry her captor and have his child. The unnamed woman contacted police shortly after communicating with her sister on Facebook, officers said. Isidro Garcia, 41, was arrested on

DHAKA: Attackers have crashed two cars into shoppers at a market in the Xinjiang capital, Urumqi, and thrown explosives, killing 31 people, Chinese reports say. One of the vehicles exploded in the attack, which happened on Thursday morning. More than 90 people were hurt, state-run Xinhua

DHAKA: India’s Prime minister-elect Narendra Modi’s first official visit as head of government will likely be to Dhaka, where he is expected to sign the much-awaited Teesta water-sharing agreement with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The issue was discussed at length during

DHAKA: The Netherlands will send a top diplomat to Saudi Arabia to prevent the country from imposing trade sanctions in protest at anti-Islamic stickers printed in the colours of the Saudi flag by a Dutch far-right politician. The foreign ministry said, reports The Straits Times. The

DHAKA: In a historic judgment, the Meghalaya high court has said that Bangladesh nationals who have settled in this northeastern state before March 24, 1971 should be treated as Indians and they be enrolled in the voters list. The judgment was based on a petition by over 40 refugees who

DHAKA: India’s prime minister-elect Narendra Modi has invited Pakistan’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif as well as other South Asian leaders to his swearing-in ceremony next Monday.A spokeswoman for his party told media, reports The Times of India.Nirmala Sitharaman, from the Bharatiya

DHAKA: Armed men have killed at least 16 policemen in Afghanistan, beheading eight of them, according to officials, as security forces prepare to guard a second-round election. Villagers in the southern province of Zabul found the decapitated bodies of eight local policemen who were

DHAKA: Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has signed multi-billion dollar, 30-year gas deal with China. The deal between Russia’s Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has been 10 years in the making. No official price has been given but it estimated to be worth over

DHAKA: India’s Aam Aadmi Party (APP) chief Arvind Kejriwal has been sent to judicial custody for two days in connection with the defamation complaint filed against him by BJP leader Nitin Gadkari. He will be taken to Tihar jail, reports The Times of India. The action was taken after

DHAKA: Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing public funds, in a case locally known as the ‘Presidential palaces case’, three years after he was toppled by massive protests. Cairo’s Criminal Court also sentenced his sons,

DHAKA: Shelling by the Pakistan Army’s gunship helicopters and fighter jets in the early hours of Wednesday killed at least 50 suspected militants and injured another 80, some critically, in several parts of Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region. DawnNews reported. The sources

DHAKA: The Philippines is no longer the ‘sick man of Asia’, as it is now a ‘viable destination for investments and tourists’, the country’s president Benigno Aquino said on Wednesday during a courtesy call by the chief executives of South-east Asia’s biggest companies. ‘No

DHAKA: Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Shiro Sadoshima on Wednesday called upon the country’s businessmen to extend trade to the Eastern countries. The envoy said, “The businesspeople of Bangladesh are extending their trades to the western countries including the American and the