DHAKA: Indian election frontrunner Narendra Modi said he was ‘overwhelmed’ Thursday by a huge show of support in Varanasi as the Hindu nationalist leader entered the contest to become the holy city’s member of parliament.The streets of the ancient city on the banks of the river

DHAKA: China’s foreign ministry welcomed on Thursday a unity pact agreed between the Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and president Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestine Liberation Organisation, saying Beijing hoped this would help peace talks with Israel. While the United States said it was

DHAKA: Debris picked up on a beach in Western Australia this week is unlikely to have come from the Malaysian Airlines jet that vanished nearly seven weeks ago.Australia’s transport bureau said on Thursday, reports The Straits Times.The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has

DHAKA: The US president has reiterated that islands at the centre of a Sino-Japanese dispute are covered by a US-Japan defence pact, in a public show of support for allies in Tokyo.In comments made on Thursday in Japan, Barack Obama said that the islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and

DHAKA: Three Americans have been shot dead by a policeman at a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul.US officials say, reports the BBC.A spokesman for Afghanistan’s interior ministry described those killed as ‘medical staff’.It was unclear whether the policeman was dead or in

DHAKA: Three foreigners have been shot dead by a security guard at a hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul.Afghanistan officials say, reports the BBC.A spokesman for Afghanistan’s interior ministry described the foreigners as ‘medical staff’.It is unclear if the attacker has been

DHAKA: A senior Egyptian police officer was killed when a bomb exploded under his car outside his home near Cairo on Wednesday.Egypt state television and a security source said, reports gulfnews.com.Brigadier-General Ahmed Zaki was killed in the explosion in 6th of October City, 32 km

DHAKA: Malaysia’s Cabinet has approved the appointment of an international investigation team to look into the cause of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.‘The main purpose of the international investigation team is to evaluate, investigate and determine the actual

DHAKA: Brunei has postponed the introduction of tough Islamic criminal punishments that were due to begin on Tuesday.Brunei said in October that it would introduce Sharia punishments including death by stoning for adulterers and the severing of limbs for theft.Assistant Director of the

DHAKA: The US is ‘running the show’ in Ukraine, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said.Lavrov told Russia Today it was ‘quite telling’ that Kiev had re-launched its anti-terror operation against pro-Russian gunmen during a visit by US vice-president Joe Biden.Kiev and the

DHAKA: Barack Obama will become the first US president to visit Malaysia in nearly 50 years this weekend, seeking to put decades of uneasy relations behind him as both cast wary eyes on a rising China.Mindful of America’s perennial image problem in the Islamic world, Obama, who visits

DHAKA: The US has warned Russia to tone down its aggressive rhetoric on Ukraine, or face further sanctions.US Secretary of State John Kerry told his Russian counterpart over the phone that Moscow must call for pro-Russian gunmen to lay down their weapons.Kiev and the West say Moscow

DHAKA: Sixty percent of underground water in China which is officially monitored is too polluted to drink directly, state media have reported, underlining the country’s grave environmental problems.Water quality measured in 203 cities across the country last year rated ‘very poor’

DHAKA: A month and a half ago -- 46 days -- Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 vanished over the southern Indian Ocean.The milestone is a somber one because it now allows attorneys to move in. There`s a 45-day federal law that says American lawyers have to wait that long to reach out to a

DHAKA: The total known death toll from the South Korean capsized ferry has now reached 121, as more bodies were brought back to Paengmok Port on Tuesday night.Of the 479 passengers and crew on board, only 174 people have been rescued and 181 remain missing, presumed drowned.Of those

DHAKA: Violent protests have broken out in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro following the death of a young man allegedly beaten by police.Main streets through the tourist area of Copacabana were closed as angry demonstrators from a nearby favela set barricades of tyres alight.The

DHAKA: The US has urged North Korea not to threaten regional peace by conducting new nuclear tests, saying it is monitoring the Korean peninsula because of Pyongyang`s history of taking "provocative actions".White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Tuesday that Washington was

DHAKA: Ukraine`s acting president has ordered a military operation against pro-Kremlin separatists in the east of the country, after the body of a local politician from his own party was found showing signs of torture."I demand the resumption of effective counter-terrorism measures to

DHAKA: Suicide bombings and other attacks across Iraq have killed at least 33 people and wounded another 80, in a surge of violence as the country counts down to parliamentary elections.Monday`s deadliest attack took place south of Baghdad in the town of Suwayrah, where a suicide bomber

DHAKA: A Saudi prince poached over 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in 21-day hunting safari in Chagai of Balochistan in Pakistan indulging illegal hunting in protected areas, reports Pak English daily Dawn on Tuesday.The daily made the report based on as report titled