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Agartala, Jul 28, 2015 : There has been no work to set up a rail link between Tripura's capital Agartala and Bangladesh due to high cost of land on the Indian side, the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday. India and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on February 16, 2013, to build a rail link between Agartala and Akhaura, ... Read More »

DHAKA — Asian minnows Bangladesh are confident of pulling off an upset victory against world No. 1 South Africa in the deciding cricket Test starting Thursday, captain Mushfiqur Rahim said. Speaking to reporters in Dhaka Wednesday, Rahim said his players dominated the last Test against the Proteas in Chittagong before rain forced a draw. “It is an opportunity against the world’s ... Read More »

BAGHDAD — In the steamy Baghdad night, sweat poured down the faces of the Iraqi teens as they marched around a school courtyard, training for battle Daesh (the so-called IS) group. This is summer camp in Iraq, set up by the country's largest paramilitary force after Iraq's top Shiite cleric issued an edict calling on students as young as middle-school age ... Read More »

The Saudi Railways Organization conducted the first successful trial run of the Haramain Express Train on Tuesday on a 100-kilometer stretch between Rabigh and Madinah. The 450-kilometer high-speed railway linking Makkah and Madinah via Jeddah and Rabigh is expected to become fully operational next year, reducing the distance between the two holy cities to less than two hours. The picture ... Read More »

WASHINGTON: Microsoft began rolling out its Windows 10 operating system Wednesday, aiming to revive the tech giant’s fortunes, especially in mobile and the “Internet of Things.” The stakes are high for Microsoft as it pushes out the new operating system for both traditional computers and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones. The US tech giant is hoping the new ... Read More »

MUMBAI: India has hanged Yakub Memon for his role in the country's deadliest bomb attacks that killed at least 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, two Indian television channels reported. Memon was sent to the gallows on his 53rd birthday inside a jail complex in the western city of Nagpur at around 7 a.m. (0130 GMT), TV channels NDTV and ... Read More »

ANKARA: The Turkish government has given its formal approval for the United States to use the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey for raids against Daesh militants in Syria, a Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday. “The Cabinet has signed the decree,” the official told AFP, without specifying when the authorization was given. “The (Incirlik) air base can be used (by ... Read More »

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the UN Abdullah Al- Muallami unveiled a beautifully framed old kiswa (covering) of the door of the Holy Kaaba at one of the newly refurbished halls of the world body. The kiswa curtain was presented to the UN in the early 1980s and that piece has now been replaced ... Read More »

ADEN: Yemen’s government has issued an order for militiamen fighting alongside loyalist troops against Houthi terrorists to be merged into the armed forces, as clashes raged in the south. The supreme defense council, which met in Riyadh, decided to “assimilate members of the Popular Resistance into the units of the armed forces and security forces,” the news agency said. The ... Read More »

DUBAI: The UAE has criticized the European Union for seeking Iranian cooperation in stabilizing the region, saying that an aggressive Tehran was helping to polarize the countries here. Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said that EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, who visited Iran recently, failed to understand Iran’s aims and her praise for the commitment ... Read More »

 Taliban leader Mullah Omar has died, BBC reported on Wednesday quoting Afghan government sources. However, the BBC added that Taliban have not commented upon the death of Mullah Omar. A Taliban spokesman said the group would issue a statement shortly, the BBC said in a report on its website. Mullah Omar, the one-eyed warrior-cleric, was the supreme commander and the ... Read More »

War-time terror of Chittagong Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will have to hang after the Supreme Court in the final verdict has confirmed the death penalty of the war crimes tribunal. The four-member appeals bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha delivered the final verdict at 9:03am on Wednesday. The judgment was greeted with huge relief in and outside the courtroom. ... Read More »

BEIRUT: A performance in Israel has cost Iranian-born British singer Sami Yusuf air time in Iran. State television in Iran has banned Yusuf, whose records sell millions in the Middle East, because of his recent performance in the Israeli city of Nazareth, even though the city has a predominantly Palestinian population and most of his audience was Palestinian, reported The ... Read More »

ADDIS ABABA: Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned African leaders who refuse to step down and urged the continent to end “the cancer of corruption,” in the first ever address to the African Union by a US president. But Obama also said the world needed to change its approach to Africa by boosting fair trade and not just aid, vowing that ... Read More »

NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court has put off by a day a decision on whether to stay the execution of the only person sentenced to death for India’s deadliest bomb attack, meaning the convict will learn his fate just hours before he is due to be hanged on Thursday. Yakub Memon was convicted as the “driving spirit” behind blasts in ... Read More »