UN condemns Israeli settlement expansion

Al-Jazeera.com :A UN official has warned that Israel’s plans for further settlements in East Jerusalem could ignite more violence and threaten the viability of the...

International

Malala gives $50,000 to rebuild Gaza schools

The Guardian :Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education campaigner shot by the Taliban, has donated $50,000 (nearly £31,000) towards the reconstruction of schools in Gaza.The Nobel...

International

Gujarat braces for Cyclone Nilofar

BBC Online :Authorities in India have begun evacuating tens of thousands of people as a powerful cyclone heads for the western coast.Cyclone Nilofar, categorised as...

International

First Iraqi Kurdish forces enter Syria’s Kobani

Reuters, Beirut :The first Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the beseiged Syrian town of Kobani through the border crossing with Turkey on Thursday, the Syrian...

Rescue workers conduct a search at the site of a landslide at the Koslanda tea plantation near Haldummulla on Thursday.

International

No hope in finding Lanka landslide survivors

AP, Sri Lanka :There was no hope of finding survivors after a mudslide tore through a tea plantation, a Sri Lankan disaster official said on...

International

Modi govt launches austerity drive

PTI, New Delhi :Unveiling an austerity drive to cut non-plan expenditure by 10 per cent, the Union government has barred bureaucrats from travelling first class...

National

News In Brief

55 motorcycles seized in SylhetSylhet CorrespondentMembers of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized 55 motorcycles from the city’s Shahi Eidghah area on Wednesday for not having...