The Supreme Court yesterday said that the government cannot collect value added tax (VAT) from the students of English medium schools. A 4-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, also extended it’s stay order on a High Court verdict that had declared illegal…

Russia’s military yesterday released drone footage showing more destruction of treasured monuments by the Islamic State in Syria’s Palmyra…

At least 13 people were killed and 82 injured when an apparent Taliban suicide blast ripped through a protest in Lahore yesterday, Pakistani officials said, shattering the city's growing sense of security. Police cordoned off the area near the crowded Mall Road, one of the city's main arteries,…

Brandishing a gun, his face contorted with rage, the shocking image of a  Turkish policeman assassinating the Russian envoy to Turkey today won the…

A Malaysian humanitarian aid ship, carrying relief materials for Rohingyas who fled their home country after brutal crackdown by security forces in Myanmar's Rakhine state, reached Bangladesh yesterday. It is scheduled to berth at the Chittagong container terminal (CCT) at 11am today. The ship,…

Myanmar authorities have sentenced a Rohingya man to death for leading raids on police border posts that sparked a deadly military crackdown in the north of Rakhine state, police said yesterday, reports AFP from Yangon. Hundreds from the Muslim minority are thought to have died and tens of thousands…