DHAKA: Pakistani fighter jets on Sunday launched air strikes on militant hideouts in the northwest, killing at least 18 people, according to officials, in the latest retaliation for attacks by the militants that have derailed peace talks.The strikes made on militant hideouts in the Tirah

DHAKA: A major fire has been reported near Nahur railway station in central Mumbai.Eyewitnesses say they saw flames up to 20m high and the fire is still raging, reports The Times of India.According to unconfirmed reports, the fire seems to have started from Ceat tyres godown.More to

DHAKA: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi arrived in Iraq on Sunday in the first such visit since before the 2003 US-led invasion.The foreign ministry said, reports The Straits Times.It is ‘the first visit to Baghdad by a high-ranking Chinese official since 2003’, the ministry said in a

DHAKA: Afghan president Hamid Karzai postponed on Sunday a planned visit to Sri Lanka over the killing of 19 Afghan soldiers in an assault by Taliban militants.‘The Afghan president is saddened by this tragic incident, and therefore he postponed today’s official trip to Sri Lanka,’

DHAKA: Supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra promised on Sunday to get tough with anti-government protesters paralysing parts of Bangkok, raising tension in a protracted crisis hours after a deadly attack on a protest rally.Leaders of the pro-government United Front for

DHAKA: Officials in northwest Pakistan say military gunship helicopters have carried out a strike against a militant hideout, killing nine suspected insurgents.Authorities say the military launched the strike Saturday in the village of Thal in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

DHAKA: Ukrainian protesters said they had taken control of the presidential administration building in central Kiev, as opposition leaders pressed for the resignation of president Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday.‘He’s not here, none of his officials or anyone linked directly to the

DHAKA: Three children were burnt to death and five sustained burn injuries when their thatched house in a Bihar village caught fire.Police said Saturday, reports Zee News.The incident took place late Friday at Kusi village in Muzaffarpur district, about 70 km from here.‘All the victims

DHAKA: Supporters of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the target of weeks of sometimes violent street protests, denounced opposition threats against businesses linked to her family on Saturday ahead of a gathering of their leaders.Anti-government protesters have blocked key

DHAKA: President Viktor Yanukovych is still in Ukraine, a senior security source told media on Saturday following reports his residence was empty and unguarded and his offices were in the hands of protesters.‘Everything’s ok with him,’ the source said. ‘He is in Ukraine’.Asked

DHAKA: At least nine people have died in Venezuela in the wave of protests against the leftist government of president Nicolas Maduro.Officials said on Friday, The Straits Times publishes this report on Saturday.At least 137 people have also been injured and 104 have been detained in the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama on Friday offered ‘strong support’ for Tibetans’ human rights in a meeting with the region’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama that defied China.‘The president reiterated his strong support for the preservation of Tibet’s unique religious,

DHAKA: Muslims banking on a holiday to Mars will have to cancel their plans after religious clerics took the time out of their schedule to issue a decisive decree on space travel.A fatwa issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the UAE claimed a trip to the red

DHAKA: Venezuela has revoked the accreditation of CNN`s Caracas-based reporter Osmary Hernandez, the US news network says.Two other CNN journalists who had been sent to Venezuela to cover the country`s political crisis also had their working permits cancelled, BBC reported.President

DHAKA: Syria has submitted a new 100-day plan for the removal of its chemical weapons after failing to meet a February 5 deadline, but the international mission overseeing the operation believes it can be done in a shorter timeframe, diplomats have said.The Organisation for the

DHAKA: Ukrainian opposition leaders have signed a deal with the president to end a political crisis that will effectively strip the presidency of much of its power and free from jail the opposition leader, Yulia Tymoshenko.The pact, which was signed by the president, Viktor Yanukovich,

DHAKA: A car bomb has exploded at the gates of Somalia`s presidential palace, followed by an attack by gunmen, police in Mogadishu say.A fierce gunfight is now said to be underway inside the compound.President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called the UN envoy to Somalia to say he was not

DHAKA: A mortar attack struck a busy area in a mainly Shia town south of Iraq`s capital, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 50, authorities said.The five mortar rounds slammed into a busy market, a residential building and a parking lot around 7pm local time as people

DHAKA: At least 70 people have been killed during street fighting between protesters and riot police in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, while the country`s interior ministry says that 67 police officers were seized by the protesters.A Media photographer saw bodies of 21 dead civilians in

DHAKA: The Indian Supreme Court has put on hold Tamil Nadu`s plan to release seven people convicted of killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which has led to a legal battle between the state government and the Centre.Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh had said Tamil Nadu`s