World / Asia

JAL jet aborts takeoff evacuates after smoke from engine enters cabin 23 Feb 2016 - 10:05 am

TOKYO: A Japan Airline Boeing 737 passenger jet aborted a take-off and evacuated passengers at Chitose Airport in Hokkaido, northern Japan after smoke...

Explosion rocks Afghan Kunduz city 23 Feb 2016 - 09:52 am

Kabul: An explosion rocked northern Kunduz province of Afghanistan on Tuesday with preliminary reports suggesting at least four people have been killed or...

Haryana limps back to normalcy; Khattar heads to Rohtak 23 Feb 2016 - 09:36 am

Army soldiers stand guard at Rohtak, India, 22 February 2016. EPA Chandigarh: Violence affected areas of Haryana limped back to normalcy on Tuesday...

HC notice to Delhi Police on Kanhaiya's bail plea 23 Feb 2016 - 09:29 am

A file picture of JNU Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar being taken to the court. Reuters New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on...

Nepal ends fuel rationing after supply from India improves 23 Feb 2016 - 09:26 am

A woman sits on top of their empty cooking gas cylinders while waiting in a queue to buy cooking gas during the ongoing...

Traders count cost of Haryana caste riots; 19 dead 23 Feb 2016 - 09:22 am

Damaged motorcycles and a van that were set alight by protesters during a demonstration by members of the Jat community in Rohtak, Haryana,...

The long night when fear stalked JNU campus 23 Feb 2016 - 12:00 am

Indian student activist Umar Khalid (C) walks through the campus of New Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi on February...

At least 13 dead in bombing north of Kabul: authorities 22 Feb 2016 - 05:48 pm

Kabul: At least 13 people, including nine civilians, were killed Monday in a suicide bombing carried out by Taliban insurgents against the Afghan...

Deal reached to end Indian caste protests 22 Feb 2016 - 04:43 pm

Demonstrators from the Jat community sit on top of a truck as they block the Delhi-Haryana national highway during a protest at Sampla...

Tuk-tuks trump elephants at Sri Lanka polo match 22 Feb 2016 - 04:23 pm

Players take part in in a tuk-tuk (three-wheeler) polo match as part of a promotional event organized by a local Sri Lankan leasing...

Indian forces kill all militants in Kashmir after 3-day gunbattle 22 Feb 2016 - 03:27 pm

epa05174978 Smoke rises from a building where militants have taken refuge during a fire fight on the third consecutive day in Sempora Pampore,...

Pakistan to import 'game-changing' Hepatitis-C drug: officials 22 Feb 2016 - 03:11 pm

Islamabad: Pakistan has authorised the import of an expensive Hepatitis-C drug from the United States to improve treatment for the estimated eight million...

Haryana caste protesters keep up blockade; Delhi water restored 22 Feb 2016 - 02:15 pm

Demonstrators from the Jat community sit on top of a school bus as they block the Delhi-Haryana national highway during a protest at...

Malaysian Borneo's air quality hits hazardous levels as forest fires rage 22 Feb 2016 - 01:49 pm

KUALA LUMPUR: Forest fires spread over 500 acres in the north of the Malaysian state of Sarawak in Borneo island have raised air...

China's smoggy capital to double air monitoring stations 22 Feb 2016 - 01:36 pm

A man smiles as his picture is taken just after a flag-raising ceremony amid heavy smog at the Tiananmen Square, after the city...

Government wants discussion in parliament on all burning issues: Naidu 22 Feb 2016 - 01:21 pm

Government plans to discuss on issues such as JNU row and Jat agitation at the upcoming Parliament session. Reuters New Delhi: The government...

Feared mob lynching, not police: Returned JNU students 22 Feb 2016 - 01:12 pm

A file picture taken on February 17, 2016 shows Indian activists shouting slogans against Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and the late Kashmiri separatist...

US secretly agreed N Korea talks before nuke test: report 22 Feb 2016 - 01:03 pm

Anti-North Korea activists shout slogans and hold placards during a protest in Seoul on February 22, 2016. AFP Washington: The US government secretly...