Bangladesh delegation at the second Bangladesh-USA Partnership Dialogue that began here on Sunday highlighted the importance of market access of Bangladeshis products to the US, prospects of US investment here and energy cooperation. Issues like Bangladesh’s accession to the Millennium…
French Ambassador at-Large for Human Rights François Zimeray arrives here on Monday on a two-day official visit to Bangladesh.
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from Pakistan to Britain, officials said, rattling the U.K. just days after a British soldier was killed on a London street…
A Saudi woman has made history by reaching the summit of the world’s highest mountain.
Sukharanjan Bali, a key witness in the war crimes trial of Jamaat e Islami deputy leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi who was abducted from the premises of the International Crimes Tribunal before having a chance to testify last November, has been…
Iran’s constitutional watchdog said it will seek possible charges against president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for allegedly violating rules by accompanying his chief adviser to the election registry office the previous day.
The man tipped to be Pakistan’s next prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has said he would end the country’s involvement in the US-led war on terror if elected.
India and China simultaneously withdrew troops from camps a few meters apart in a Himalayan desert on Sunday, apparently ending a three-week standoff on a freezing plateau where the border is disputed and the Asian giants fought a war 50…
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested and held for seven hours Monday and warned to keep silent about matters detrimental to the Islamic regime before he was released, according to a source within the Revolutionary Guard’s intelligence unit.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Thursday that the Islamic Republic would destroy the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa if its nuclear infrastructure came under attack from the Jewish state.
Pakistan will hold nationwide parliamentary elections on May 11, said a presidential spokesman on Wednesday. The vote is expected to produce the country’s first transition from one civilian government to another.
DHAKA: At least 15 people have been killed and 50 injured in a series of blasts in a busy commercial area of Hyderabad this evening.