SRINAGAR (India) - AROUND 80 people were hurt on Tuesday when Indian police fired teargas and used bamboo canes to break up a Shiite Muslim procession in revolt-hit Kashmir, police and witnesses said.
DHAKA - SHEIKH Hasina Wajed was sworn in for her second spell as Bangladesh's prime minister on Tuesday, restoring democracy to the impoverished country after almost two years of rule by an army-backed regime.
President Iajuddin Ahmed gave the oath at the presidential palace here in a ceremony broadcast live on television, as thousands of supporters gathered outside and around giant screens set up around the capital.
HONG KONG - MORE than a dozen employees at a subsidiary of Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) have been arrested by anti-graft authorities over a possible 50 million Hong Kong dollar (S$9.46 million) loan fraud, officials said on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI - INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh accused Pakistan on Tuesday of acting irresponsibly, saying November's Mumbai attacks must have had support from some of its nuclear-armed neighbour's official agencies.
Mr Singh's comments were the latest in almost daily government criticism of Pakistan, and a sign that New Delhi has become increasingly frustrated at what it sees as Islamabad's slowness at identifying and arresting the attack's planners.
