DHAKA: A Pakistan party which has been staging sit-ins to block the NATO supply to Afghanistan in protest against covert US drone strikes in the country on Thursday announced an end to its campaign.The decision of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI), led by the cricketer-turned politician

DHAKA: The Indian Supreme Court Thursday stopped the Tamil Nadu government from releasing four of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi`s assassins who are serving life terms.The court also said it will decide, within a week, on the fight between the Centre and Tamil Nadu over who can decide

DHAKA: A jawan of the Rashtriya Rifles shot dead five of his colleagues and later killed himself at an Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir late last night. Two more soldiers were injured in the firing.The incident happened in the Manasbal area of Ganderbal district, nearly 30 kilometres north

DHAKA: Ukraine`s new interim government has been presented at Kiev`s main protest camp, the Maidan, following last week`s ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych.The Maidan council named Arseniy Yatsenyuk to become prime minister. The cabinet - to be voted on by MPs on Thursday - includes

DHAKA: Our galactic neighborhood just got a lot bigger. NASA on Wednesday announced the discovery of 715 new planets, by far the biggest batch of planets ever unveiled at once.By way of comparison, about 1,000 planets total had been identified in our galaxy before Wednesday.Four of those

DHAKA: Egyptian army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will keep his post as defence minister in a new government, an official source said on Wednesday, quashing speculation he was about to announce a widely expected bid for the presidency.Sisi is tipped to win the upcoming

DHAKA: Navy chief Admiral DK Joshi on Wednesday resigned after two officers were feared killed and seven sailors injured when a fire erupted on board a submarine, INS Sindhuratna, around 40 nautical miles off Mumbai.Taking moral responsibility for the accidents and incidents which have

DHAKA: An Egyptian criminal court on Wednesday sentenced 26 militants to death for founding a ‘terror group’ that aimed to target ships in the Suez canal.Egypt judicial sources said, reports The Straits Times.Prosecutors also accused the defendants of making rockets and explosives

DHAKA: Turkey’s president Abdullah Gul on Wednesday signed into law a contested bill tightening the government’s grip on the judiciary as it grapples to contain the fallout from a major corruption probe.The new law, which sparked fistfights among lawmakers debating it in parliament,

DHAKA: The makeup of Ukraine’s new government will be announced on Wednesday on Kiev’s Independence Square, the scene of three months of at times deadly protests.A lawmaker said, reports The Straits Times.‘At 7:00 pm we will take to the stage to present the new government to the

DHAKA: Pakistan on Wednesday unveiled its first ever counter-terrorism policy after battling a homegrown Islamist insurgency for more than a decade, announcing that every act of militant violence would be met with retaliation on their bases.Interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan

DHAKA: The Italian navy said on Wednesday it had rescued nearly 600 migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Africa over the past 24 hours in an operation launched after two shipwrecks in which hundreds drowned.‘The Navy has rescued 596 migrants on six vessels,’ including three rubber

DHAKA: Ukraine’s acting interior minister has said the elite Berkut police unit, blamed for the deaths of protesters, has been disbanded.It is unclear what will happen to Berkut officers but Arsen Avakov said more details would be given in a briefing on Wednesday.The unit had

DHAKA: British foreign secretary William Hague has called for an end to rape as a weapon of war.Speaking in Washington, where he received an award from Hillary Clinton for promoting women’s rights, Hague said the issue ‘should shame all men’.These acts be removed ‘from the

DHAKA: New York prosecutors Tuesday announced the indictments of an additional 32 people in a multimillion-dollar Social Security fraud scheme that involved retired cops and firefighters who falsely claimed to have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after the 9/11 terrorist

DHAKA: Italy`s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has won a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament, backing his government`s programme of rapid economic and institutional reform.Renzi, 39, won a comfortable margin in the Chamber of Deputies, with 378 MPs voting in favour to 220

DHAKA: President Barack Obama has warned his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai that the US may pull all of its troops out of his country by the year`s end.Obama conveyed the message in a phone call to Karzai, who has refused to sign a security agreement, reports BBC.The US insists this

DHAKA: Egypt’s president has asked outgoing housing minister Ibrahim Mahlab to form a new government, state media report, a day after the interim cabinet quit.Interim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi did not give a clear reason for his government’s resignation on Monday.The surprise

DHAKA: Islamic militants from the Boko Haram group in north-eastern Nigeria have attacked a school and shot some students.The military has said, reports the BBC.The BBC’s Will Ross, in Nigeria, says it is not clear how many pupils were killed. But Reuters news agency says that as many

DHAKA: At least 11 workers died and 18 others were injured when a large concrete beam collapsed on Tuesday at a construction site just outside Bangkok.Police said, reports The Straits Times.Two of the injured were in a critical condition in hospital, said Apiwat Kasorn of the Bang Phli