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HK student leaders mull protest retreat 05 Dec 2014 - 09:35 am

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s student leaders said yesterday that they would decide in the coming days whether to leave protest sites they have...

Afghan leaders outline reform plans 05 Dec 2014 - 09:33 am

LEFT: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani addressing world leaders at the Afghanistan Conference in London yesterday. Centre: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and British...

IDEAS 2014 05 Dec 2014 - 09:32 am

Visitors stand next to a JF-17 Thunder fighter jet during the last day of International Defence Exhibition and Seminar “IDEAS 2014” in Karachi...

Ghani faces huge tasks ahead 05 Dec 2014 - 09:31 am

KABUL: New Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has set about overhauling a dysfunctional administration and containing a growing insurgency with plenty of energy, and...

10 kids get HIV from blood transfusions 05 Dec 2014 - 09:30 am

ISLAMABAD: Ten Pakistani children have been infected with HIV after receiving tainted blood transfusions, officials said yesterday, in a “shocking” case highlighting the...

Pakistani Taliban squeezed by US drone strikes 05 Dec 2014 - 09:29 am

PESHAWAR: Pakistani Taliban militants holed up in Afghanistan are being squeezed by US drone strikes and a revolt against them, a trend that...

Fired up drummers 05 Dec 2014 - 09:26 am

Navy troopers show their skills while playing drums during Navy Day celebrations in Mumbai yesterday.

Bhopal tragedy in Rome! 05 Dec 2014 - 09:26 am

A woman visits an installation by Indian artist Samar Singh Jodhain and organised by Amnesty International to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the...

Modi slams minister for crude remark 05 Dec 2014 - 09:24 am

New Delhi: Giving in to opposition demands to speak on the row over federal minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti’s unparliamentary language, Prime Minister Narendra...

Six parties merge to take on NDA 05 Dec 2014 - 09:24 am

New Delhi: In a move aimed at consolidation of their support base and take on the NDA, six parties of “Janata Parivar” (Janata...

Jurist passes away at 100 05 Dec 2014 - 09:23 am

Kochi: Condolences poured in for ‘centurion’ V R Krishna Iyer, one of the most respected names in the Indian judiciary, who breathed his...

Five kids die as train runs into school van 05 Dec 2014 - 09:23 am

Lucknow/New Delhi: Five schoolchildren were yesterday killed in Mau district of Uttar Pradesh when a passenger train crashed into their van at an...

Shiv Sena to join BJP govt in Maharashtra 05 Dec 2014 - 09:23 am

Mumbai: Burying the bitterness of the recent past, the opposition Shiv Sena has decided to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in...

Award for Haryana sisters on hold pending probe 05 Dec 2014 - 09:23 am

Chandigarh: The Haryana government yesterday said its decision to honour and give cash rewards to two sisters, who reportedly took on youths trying...

Suicide attack on Indian army camp in Kashmir kills five 05 Dec 2014 - 09:22 am

SRINAGAR, India: Five members of the Indian security forces were killed in a suicide attack on an army artillery camp in northern Kashmir...

No foul play in minister’s death, says CBI probe 05 Dec 2014 - 09:20 am

New Delhi: Ruling out any foul play in the death of federal minister Gopinath Munde, who died in a car crash here six...

UAE arrests suspect in American’s killing 05 Dec 2014 - 08:09 am

ABU DHABI: UAE authorities said yesterday they had arrested a woman for the “unprecedented” murder of an American teacher in a shopping centre...

More air strikes near Tripoli 05 Dec 2014 - 08:02 am

General Khalifa Haftar (fourth left) discusses military operations with Libyan army commanders in Benghazi, where clashes between pro and anti-government forces have taken...