Dhaka  - Authorities in Bangladesh have asked intelligence agencies to closely monitor activities of 12 suspected militant outfits running so-called Islamic activities in the predominately Muslim South Asian country, media reports said Saturday.

"The government has kept watchful eyes on the activities of the 12 organizations listed as terrorist outfits by the immediate-past interim administration," State Minister for Home Affairs Tanjim Ahmed Sohel Taj told a private television channel.

Bangkok  - US-based Natureworks LLC, the world's largest producer of bioplastics, has shortlisted four countries - Thailand, China, Malaysia and Singapore - for a 100-million-dollar plant in Asia, news reports said Saturday.

Marc Verbruggen, president of the Minneapolis-based company, was in Bangkok recently to assess Thailand's potential as a base for its Asia plant which is expected to start operations in 2014.

If you are really passionate about Meg Ryan’s flicks including ‘Kate and Leopald,’ ‘When Harry Met Sally’ and ‘You’ve Got Mail,’ then there are chances that her newly released comedy film ‘My Mom’s New Boyfriend’ will leave you frustrated.

Meg failed to impress her buffs with ‘My Mom’s New Boyfriend’ as it is in no way as good as to those joyful romantic comedy movies for which she is known.

Washington, Apr. 25 : The United States has once again urged Pakistan to focus more on the Taliban threat that is challenging its very existence rather than its arch rival India.

Addressing the House Appropriations Committee, CENTCOM chief General. David Petraeus once again highlighted the immediate need for Pakistan to address its internal threat.

Washington, Apr 25 : American researchers have found how to turn off a certain receptor that promotes the growth of leukemia cells.

The study by researchers from the Children''s Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has been presented in a platform session at the 22nd annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO).

The researchers have come up with a new theory that the ancient civilization that flourished in the Indus River basin 4,000 years ago, Indus Valley civilization (IVC) was a literate society using script that is much similar to the present day languages, such as Tamil, Sanskrit and English. In a new research, a team of Indian researchers have articulated that the mystical script symbols used by the IVC people were a hieroglyphic language, instead of mere pictograms or symbols.