DHAKA: US Secretary of State John Kerry has described as “constructive” talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on securing Syria’s chemical weapons.The two men began a second day of talks in Geneva by meeting UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi to discuss the wider issue

DHAKA: At the edge of the heliosphere, you would just see unfathomably empty space, no matter which side of the invisible line you were on.But scientists now have strong evidence that NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has crossed this important border, making history as the first human-made object

DHAKA: Narendra Modi, a staunch proponent of Hinduvta, was on Friday announced as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, amid stiff opposition by party patriarch L K Advani.The announcement was made by BJP chief Rajnath Singh after a meeting of the party’s

DHAKA: A young chartered accountant student from Hyderabad has allegedly hacked into the e-filing of income tax returns account of leading industrialist Anil Ambani, with an intention to know his income and tax amount paid over a period of time, police said on Friday.The 21-year-old

DHAKA: Cricketers S Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan have been handed a life ban, Amit Singh has been banned for 5 years while Siddharth Trivedi has been banned for 1 year for spot-fixing in the 2013 T20 league by the BCCI disciplinary panel.The disciplinary panel decided their fate after

DHAKA: At least 30 people have been killed and 24 others wounded in a bomb attack on a Sunni mosque in the central Iraqi city of Baquba.Police said Sunni and Shia worshippers were targeted after joining each other for Friday prayers.There have recently been several deadly bombings in

DHAKA: At least 37 people have died in a fire that engulfed a psychiatric hospital in north-western Russia, officials say.The blaze occurred in the village of Luka, in Novgorod region. The timber-built hospital housed some 60 people.A nurse who tried to guide patients to safety was among

DHAKA: Nine months after a young medical student was gang-raped and murdered on a moving bus in Delhi, four men have been given the death sentence for the attack that shocked India, and ignited weeks of protests demanding better safety for women and swift justice for the 23-year-old who

LONDON: The Qatar based Al Jazeera TV is going to broadcast a documentary on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made by international eminent journalist late David Frost.It will be broadcasted at GMT 20:00 on September 20, said sources concerned.  This is the last documentary film made by

DHAKA: The much-awaited closure in a case that triggered India wide protests and soul-searching about the treatment of women in India may happen Friday with a Delhi fast-track court set to announce the quantum of punishment for the gang-rape and murder of a young student last

DHAKA: A fire has swept through a Russian psychiatric hospital overnight, killing at least three people and leaving more than 30 others feared dead, officials said.The fire in the one-storey hospital in the village of Luka in the northwestern Novgorod region erupted at around 3 am local

The US and Russian foreign ministers are due to hold their second round of talks in Geneva on how to secure Syria`s chemical weapons.US officials said Thursday`s meeting was comprehensive and lasted about an hour. Talks could continue over the weekend.The BBC`s Paul Adams in Geneva says

DHAKA: Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have attacked the US consulate in the western city of Herat.The Taliban told the BBC a suicide bomber had detonated explosives outside the building before dawn on Friday.Other fighters then opened fire on the consulate. Several Afghan police are

DHAKA: Crucial talks on ending Syrian control of its chemical weapons began Thursday in Geneva with the top negotiators -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov -- offering similar goals but different ideas on how to reach them."This is not a game,"

DHAKA: President Bashar al-Assad has signed a decree stating that Syria will accede to international law on chemical weapons, the United Nations said.In a statement on Thursday, the spokesman for the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said: "The secretary general has today received a letter

DHAKA: A Canadian woman has been arrested in Colombia after trying to board a flight from Bogota`s international airport with a fake pregnant belly stuffed with cocaine.Police say the tourist caught the attention of an anti-narcotics officer during a routine pat down.Source: BBCBDST: 0528

DHAKA: The United Nations said on Thursday it has received documents from the Syrian government seeking to join the international convention banning chemical weapons."In the past few hours we have received a document from the government of Syria which is being translated," said a UN

DHAKA: John Kerry, US secretary of state, has addressed the media after arriving in Geneva to meet Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov as the UN tries to forge an international plan to disarm the Syrian government of its chemical weapons.Lavrov and Kerry will discuss efforts to agree a UN

DHAKA: Myanmar`s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday that she alone could not stop the anti-Muslim violence that has shaken her country and that the solution was to install the rule of law."It`s not something that I could learn to do, but I think what this whole society

DHAKA: An American from Alabama who ascended the ranks of Somalia`s al-Shabaab armed group high enough to attract a $5 million US government bounty has been killed in an ambush ordered by the group`s leader, witnesses said.Residents in al Baate village in southern Somalia said Omar