World / Asia

Sri Lanka takes 'giant step' toward unity with Tamil anthem 04 Feb 2016 - 05:20 pm

Colombo: Sri Lanka's war-battered minority Tamils welcomed the national anthem being sung in their language at Independence Day celebrations on Thursday for the...

Pakistan to receive $497mn tranche of IMF loan: officials 04 Feb 2016 - 05:08 pm

Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund announced Thursday it would release the latest instalment worth $497 million of a three-year economic bailout package to...

Afghanistan's Abdullah expects talks with Taliban in months 04 Feb 2016 - 04:29 pm

Afghanistan's Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah speaks during an interview with Reuters in New Delhi, India, February 4, 2016. REUTERS BY PARITOSH BANSAL AND...

India mob beats, partly strips Tanzanian student 04 Feb 2016 - 04:10 pm

Bangalore: India police arrested five people Thursday over an enraged mob's attack on a Tanzanian student who was beaten, her shirt ripped off...

Nursery admissions: HC restores management quota 04 Feb 2016 - 01:58 pm

File picture for representation New Delhi: In a setback for the Arvind Kejriwal government, Delhi High Court on Thursday restored the management quota...

Anupam Kher issue due to nebulous visa regime: Pakistani daily 04 Feb 2016 - 09:37 am

Islamabad: Indian actor Anupam Kher being denied a Pakistani visa is "reflective of the byzantine and thoroughly nebulous visa regime that exists between...

Kejriwal offers Rs.551 crore loan for salaries; civic workers continue strike 04 Feb 2016 - 09:30 am

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal Bengaluru/New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday announced a Rs.551-crore loan to pay out pending salaries of...

SC declines to intervene in Delhi civic employees' strike 04 Feb 2016 - 09:28 am

Supreme Court of India New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea seeking direction to three civic bodies in...

Five arrested for assaulting Tanzanian woman in Bengaluru 04 Feb 2016 - 09:27 am

Bengaluru: Five people suspected of assaulting a Tanzanian woman were arrested early on Thursday, Police Commissioner N.S. Megharik said. "We have arrested the...

North Korea may be preparing separate missile launch: NHK 04 Feb 2016 - 09:25 am

Tokyo: North Korea may be preparing a ballistic missile launch from a base on its east coast in addition to its announced plans...

Mobile kitchens upgrade street food in Kerala 03 Feb 2016 - 06:57 pm

By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram: For a while now, street food has been passe in most middle-class and upper-middle-class households in Kerala. But lately,...

Pakistani cleric praises Indian air base attack, warns of escalation 03 Feb 2016 - 06:04 pm

Muzaffarabad, Pakistan: A Pakistani firebrand cleric on Wednesday praised a deadly Indian air base attack last month that threatened to scupper peace efforts...

Indian company says working on two possible Zika vaccines 03 Feb 2016 - 05:59 pm

A municipal health worker shows off a test tube with larvae of Zika virus vector, the Aedes aegypti mosquito, as part of the...

Justice eludes India's medical negligence victims 03 Feb 2016 - 05:47 pm

Cap62-year-old Indian woman Suresh Rani, given an overdose of sodium by doctors at a hospital which resulted in a permanent brain damage, is...

Suu Kyi urges patience over Myanmar presidency decision 03 Feb 2016 - 05:01 pm

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi attends Amyothar Hluttaw (upper house parliament) as an observer during the first day of upper house...

U.S. says making progress in aircraft carrier collaboration with India 03 Feb 2016 - 02:21 pm

U.S. Navy Admiral John Richardson (L), the U.S. chief of naval operations is seen in this file photo taken in Tokyo October 15,...

10 troops missing in Himalayan avalanche: Indian army 03 Feb 2016 - 01:10 pm

Srinagar: Rescuers searched Wednesday for 10 soldiers feared buried in an avalanche in India's remote Himalayas near the de facto border with Pakistan,...

Pakistan's airports in chaos over PIA strike 03 Feb 2016 - 12:58 pm

Employees of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) protest against the privatization of the company at the PIA offices in Peshawar, Pakistan February 3, 2016....