Bangladesh's former foreign minister Hassan Mahmud and ex-state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak were detained on Tuesday at the Dhaka airport while attempting to flee the country, a day after prime......
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Friday called for a unity government as the cash-strapped Pakistan appeared to be heading towards a hung parliament, with independent candidates backed by jailed......
Continuing its crackdown on terrorism sponsored from across the border, the Centre banned two proxy organisations of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Tayiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad and declared four individuals......
The result is a big blow to the military establishment, revealing the limits of 'political engineering'. It reflected the anger of the electorate, especially its younger voters, who have spoken......
IMAGE: General Qassem Soleimani headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force and served as Iran's pointman on Iraq. Defending the killing of top Iranian commander in a United States......
The response from the finance ministry on a Reserve Bank of India report about the introduction of Sharia banking in India cannot be disclosed, the central bank has said. The RBI was asked to......
The first government sukuk was listed on the London Stock Exchange as Britain reaffirmed its reputation as the main western centre for Islamic finance. Bahrain chose London to list its second......
The Gulf region is set to gain another financial exchange after Financial Technologies, an Indian trading technology company, announced its plans on Wednesday, to set up an operation in Bahrain......
JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, as well as Britain's Asia-focused Standard Chartered said they would try to support London's financial sector Four US......
The interest money which is not claimed by people due to religious obligations is kept in suspended bank accounts. State Bank of India has declined to share the quantum of money lying in suspended......
'If you don't have children, that's also a problem.''There's no right way to live because everybody has an opinion about your personal life, and how you should live.''You have to listen to them,......
The Reluctant Fundamentalist has its cinematic moments but is too simplistic in places, Vaihayasi Pande Daniel writes.Do you know what a janissary is? Before you head out to see the new Mira Nair......
Robert De Niro launched the Tribeca Film Festival as a measure to revive the lower Manhattan area devastated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11.Seven years later, the festival has become the largest......