3 arrested over Hindu priest’s murder in B’desh
Dhaka: Three more members of a banned Islamist group were arrested in Bangladesh in connection with the brutal killing of a head priest of a Hindu temple, the latest incident of violence targeting religious minorities in the Muslim-majority country.
‘Top ISIS leaders arrested on Baghdadi’s orders’
Cairo: The ISIS has arrested several of its senior leaders in Iraq for “treason” on the orders of the terror group’s chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to a media report. A terrorist dubbed “the masked gunman” arrested dozens of prominent ISIS leaders for committing treason, Iraqi News reported citing media officials of the Iraqi Ministry of Defence.
Japan population fell nearly 1 mn in 2010-15
Tokyo: Japan’s latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking. Japan’s population stood at 127.1 million last fall, down 0.7 per cent from 128.1 million in 2010, according to results of the 2015 census, released on Friday. The 947,000 decline in the population in the last five years was the first since the once-every-five-years count started in 1920.
Only Musharraf be tried for treason: Pak SC
Islamabad: Spelling further trouble for military ruler Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday ruled that only he should be tried on the charge of treason for subverting the Constitution in 2007.
ISIS claims bombings in baghdad that killed 15
Baghdad: Suicide bombers hit a Shia religious building and a military checkpoint in a Shiite-majority neighborhood of Baghdad, killing 15 people, an Iraqi security official has said.