World / Asia

Hope fades for Sri Lanka missing, garbage toll hits 21 16 Apr 2017 - 08:48 am

Colombo: Hopes of finding anyone alive under a collapsed mountain of garbage in Sri Lanka's capital faded Sunday as the death toll reached...

PNG to investigate 'drunk rampage' at Australia refugee camp 16 Apr 2017 - 08:31 am

Sydney: Drunk soldiers "went on a rampage" and fired shots in the air at an Australian asylum-seeker camp in Papua New Guinea, police...

Eight injured after train derails in north India 15 Apr 2017 - 02:37 pm

New Delhi: Eight people were injured when a passenger train derailed in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India on Saturday. Eight...

Afghanistan: Death toll from MOAB attack revised to 92 15 Apr 2017 - 11:47 am

KABUL, Afghanistan: The Afghan authorities have revised the death toll from Thursday’s Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) attack by the U.S. on IS...

10 suspected militants, 3 troops killed in NE Pakistan 15 Apr 2017 - 10:37 am

KARACHI, Pakistan: At least ten suspected militants were killed in an ongoing anti-terrorism operation in northeastern Pakistan on Friday, raising the militants' casualties...

Sri Lanka garbage dump collapse kills 11 15 Apr 2017 - 10:29 am

Colombo: The death toll from a collapsed garbage mountain in Sri Lanka's capital rose to 11 Saturday, officials said, with the disaster destroying...

S.Korea military says suspects N.Korea paraded new ICBMs 15 Apr 2017 - 09:24 am

SEOUL: South Korea's military said it believed missiles displayed in a North Korean military parade on the anniversary of its state founder Kim...

Sri Lanka garbage mountain death toll rises to 10 15 Apr 2017 - 09:12 am

Colombo: The death toll from a collapsed garbage mountain in Colombo has risen to 10 after four children died in hospital overnight from...

Plaque commemorating Thai revolution removed, prompting outcry 15 Apr 2017 - 09:08 am

BANGKOK: A plaque commemorating a 1932 coup in Thailand that saw absolute monarchy abolished and democracy established has gone missing, police in Bangkok...

Number of Islamic State fighters killed by US bomb jumps to 90 15 Apr 2017 - 08:59 am

Jalalabad, Afghanistan: The death toll from the American military's largest non-nuclear bomb nearly tripled Saturday, with Afghan officials saying at least 90 Islamic...

Violence flares at Australian refugee facility in Papua New Guinea 15 Apr 2017 - 08:31 am

SYDNEY: Violence has flared at an Australian asylum-seeker detention centre in Papua New Guinea (PNG), and shots were fired when local people tried...

Troops mass in Pyongyang show of strength 15 Apr 2017 - 07:33 am

Pyongyang: North Korea's military forces were massed in Pyongyang early Saturday for a show of strength by leader Kim Jong-Un as tensions mount...

Video of Kashmiri youth tied to military jeep as a human shield evokes anger in the valley 14 Apr 2017 - 08:14 pm

Srinagar: A video of a youth tied to the front of a moving army jeep as a shield against stone pelters has evoked...

22 years after it scrapped Mumbai-Jeddah pilgrim ship, India now mulling sea route option for Haj 14 Apr 2017 - 07:51 pm

Mumbai: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Friday said the Centre is "actively considering" a plan to resume -- after 22 years --...

Indian President lays foundation for Ambedkar Economics School in Bengaluru 14 Apr 2017 - 07:51 pm

Bengaluru: President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday laid the foundation stone for the Dr B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics in the Bengaluru University campus...