DHAKA: As part of preparations to meet challenges from China and Pakistan, India is planning to lay 14 strategic railway lines close to borders with these two countries to help in easier and faster movement of troops.The railway lines are besides 73 roads being constructed along the Line

DHAKA: Ten car bombs exploded across Baghdad province early on Sunday, killing at least 37 people, police and medics said.Nine of the blasts hit predominantly Shia Muslim districts, with the deadliest attack in the town of Nahrawan, south of the capital, where two car bombs exploded in

DHAKA: Police in Saudi Arabia said that they have arrested 12 women for challenging the ban on driving.Five of the women drivers were apprehended in the capital Riyadh, five in the Eastern Province, three in Ahsa and two in Dammam, and two in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.The police said,

DHAKA: At least five people were killed and 24 injured when a series of blasts rocked Patna ahead of BJP’s Hunkar rally on Sunday.Bihar DGP GP Abhyanand has confirmed 8 explosions. Most of the blasts occurred in and around the Gandhi Maidan.People were seen rushing the injured to the

DHAKA: US president Barack Obama was personally informed of mobile phone tapping against German chancellor Angela Merkel, which may have begun as early as 2002.German media reported on Sunday, says The Straits Times.Bild am Sonntag newspaper quoted US intelligence sources as saying that

DHAKA: Days of torrential rains have unleashed floods in south-east India that have killed dozens of people and forced the evacuation of more than 70,000 others from hundreds of low-lying villages.As of Saturday, 39 people had died in flood-related incidents in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa

DHAKA: A senior Iranian official has denied reports the Islamic republic has temporarily stopped enriching uranium to the 20 percent level.The state news agency IRNA said on Saturday, gulfnews.com publishes this report on Sunday.‘Iran’s nuclear activities are unchanged and enriching

DHAKA: Former British foreign secretary Jack Straw has said he would step down as a member of parliament at the 2015 general election.Straw, 67, was foreign secretary under prime minister Tony Blair as Britain went to war in Iraq in 2003.The lawmaker for the Labour Party, now in

DHAKA: Six car bombs have exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, leaving at least 19 people dead, security officials say.The bombs were placed in parked cars and detonated over a 30-minute period in busy streets, mainly in Shia areas, reports the BBC.In the deadliest attack, two bombs

DHAKA: Japan’s prime minister Shinzō Abe warned China on Sunday against forcibly changing the regional balance of power, as reports said Tokyo had scrambled fighter jets in response to Chinese military aircraft flying near Okinawa.Verbal skirmishing between Asia’s two biggest

DHAKA: The US has been spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone since 2002, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine.The German publication claims to have seen secret documents from the National Security Agency which show Merkel’s number on a list dating from

DHAKA: Russian president Vladimir Putin is planning a possible state visit to Egypt in order to take advantage of frayed ties between Washington and Cairo and possibly gain access to Egypt’s Mediterranean ports.The Sunday Times reported, says The Jerusalem Post.The United States

DHAKA: The Turkish immigrant credited with inventing the doner kebab has died in Berlin aged 80.Kadir Nurman set up a stall in West Berlin in 1972, selling grilled meat and salad inside a flat bread.He had noticed the fast pace of city life and thought busy Berliners might like a meal

DHAKA: Chinese state media laid into Bo Xilai on Saturday, saying ‘arrogance’ led to his demise, a day after a court rejected the fallen politician’s appeal against his corruption conviction.Bo was condemned to life imprisonment on charges of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power

DHAKA: The widow of former Yugoslav leader Marshal Tito has been honoured in a state funeral in the Serbian capital.Jovanka Broz, who died of heart failure at the age of 88 last weekend, was buried next to her husband in the elaborate House of Flowers mausoleum.She received full military

DHAKA: The United Nations peace envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said on Saturday he Iran should be invited to peace talks in Geneva.Iran’s English-language Press TV reported, says The Jerusalem Post.‘We believe that the participation of Iran in the Geneva conference is natural and

DHAKA: The United Nations has expressed serious concern for hundreds of Myanmar civilians, many of them children, trapped in a conflict zone in northern Kachin state amid renewed clashes between the army and rebels.It said over a thousand displaced people are thought to be running short

DHAKA: At least one Afghan soldier was killed and a NATO-led international military soldier injured Saturday in an insider attack in the capital, Kabul, officials said.‘There was a verbal dispute between an Afghan and a NATO soldier today, who opened fire on each other,’ said Dawlat

DHAKA: Kurdish militants seized a Syrian border post on the frontier with Iraq early on Saturday, a monitoring group said, after three days of clashes with an al-Qaida-linked group which had held the crossing for more than a year.The Yarubiya post and surrounding areas in the northeast

DHAKA: JP Morgan has reached a $5.1bn settlement with the US Federal Housing Finance Agency over charges it misled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the housing boom.A separate settlement with the US Justice Department is expected to be announced soon.‘This is a