New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to join the Manmohan Singh government in a cabinet reshuffle scheduled for Sunday, sources in...
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to join the Manmohan Singh government in a cabinet reshuffle scheduled for Sunday, sources in...
NEW DELHI: About 40 whales died in a mass stranding on the west coast of India’s remote North Andaman island in the Bay...
MUMBAI: Energy giant Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has retained his title as the world’s richest Indian — for the fifth year in...
A man decorates his cow as he waits for customers at a livestock market ahead of Eid Al Adha in Lahore, yesterday.
KABUL: A senior Taliban commander and 24 of his fighters were killed in a battle with Afghan security forces in a northern village...
KABUL: The Afghan government stressed that it will not accept foreigners on a key election watchdog ahead of 2014 presidential elections, a move...
LONDON: Two British soldiers, one of them a female medic, and a man believed to be an Afghan policeman were killed in a...
KABUL: A young activist from the same area of Pakistan as Malala Yousafzai, the girl shot in the head by a Taliban gunman...
KABUL: The US election is a side-show on the frontline of the war on terror where Afghans feel abandoned by Washington’s looming troop...
Lee Si-Hyung (centre), South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s only son, speaks to the media as he arrives at a special prosecutor’s office in...
YANGON: A new wave of sectarian unrest in western Myanmar has left at least 20 dead, officials said yesterday, sparking an exodus of...
SEOUL: South Korea yesterday kicked off an annual, large-scale military exercise aimed at countering threats from North Korea at a time of heightened...
BEIJING: China’s defence ministry announced yesterday further reshuffling of the top military bosses, reflecting bargaining among the country’s top leadership ahead of a...
TOKYO: Beijing-baiting Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, whose bid to buy disputed islands ignited a smouldering row between Japan and China, resigned yesterday to...
TOKYO: Four Chinese government ships spent several hours in territorial waters around disputed Tokyo-controlled islands yesterday, for what Japan’s coastguard said was the...
A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet is seen inside the nuclear-powered 97,000-tonne aircraft carrier USS George Washington during a port call at the...
MANILA: At least 1,000 government health workers yesterday staged a walkout to protest a plan to privatise state-owned hospitals. The health workers left...
MANILA: The Philippines announced on Wednesday it had lifted a five-year-old ban on its nationals working in Jordan that was imposed amid concerns...
