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VIENNA TALKS TABLE MIDEAST IRAQ YEMEN SYRIA LEBANON NUCLEAR FILE 22 Nov 2014 - 02:53 am

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Bahrain polls today 22 Nov 2014 - 02:44 am

Pro-reform supporters cast ballots in favour of ‘self-determination’ at voting station in Duraz village, north of Manama, yesterday. Bahrain’s Sunni rulers are open...

‘Proper’ dress code sought for teachers 22 Nov 2014 - 02:42 am

DOHA: Some in the Qatari community want women school teachers to dress conservatively, arguing that a dress code is essential for them since...

Tainted food: Eight hospitalised 22 Nov 2014 - 02:41 am

DOHA: Four members of a family were rushed for emergency medical care as they complained of stomach upset, vomiting and diarrhoea immediately after...

Scattered rains likely on Monday 22 Nov 2014 - 02:39 am

DOHA: Finally, rains can be expected in the country on Monday and Tuesday. According to the Met department, the weather will be unstable...

NY snowstorm toll rises to 13 22 Nov 2014 - 02:16 am

A vehicle sits abandoned in a snowbank in Buffalo, New York, yesterday. The death toll rose to 13 from a killer snowstorm in...

Israel accuses Hamas of plot to kill its foreign minister 22 Nov 2014 - 02:15 am

JERUSALEM: Israel has arrested four Palestinians suspected of planning to kill Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with an anti-tank rocket while he drove to...

US, Iran in last-ditch bid to clinch historic N-deal 22 Nov 2014 - 02:14 am

VIENNA: Iran and the United States yesterday intensified efforts to overcome deep divisions in talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme days ahead of a...

Dutch animal farms seen vulnerable to disease 22 Nov 2014 - 01:35 am

AMSTERDAM: Agriculture has helped make the Netherlands rich, but experts warn that the density of farms and the increasing number of animals in...

Fresh insight on how diamonds are formed 22 Nov 2014 - 01:34 am

Washington: New findings have revealed long unknown details about how carbon deep beneath the Earth’s surface is helping diamond formation in the Earth’s...

BJP didn’t keep word to J&K flood hit: Sonia 22 Nov 2014 - 12:18 am

Indian National Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi (second left) waves while former Federal Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad (right), speaks to supporters during...

Exodus to greener pastures 22 Nov 2014 - 12:17 am

A shepherd walks with his herd during their annual migration at Baroh, some 50km from Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, yesterday. Migration is an annual...

Modi, Sharif should meet at Saarc: Experts 22 Nov 2014 - 12:16 am

New Delhi: The prime ministers of India and Pakistan should meet on the sidelines of the forthcoming Saarc summit in Nepal to resume...

Obama to be chief guest at RD parade 22 Nov 2014 - 12:16 am

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will travel to India in January for Republic Day celebrations, a sign of steadily expanding ties between the...

Fears grow about Hindu ‘Modi-fication’ of education 22 Nov 2014 - 12:16 am

NEW DELHI: Indians were flying aeroplanes, carrying out stem cell research and may even have been using cosmic weapons 5,000 years ago, according...

Cabinet nod for three major power projects 22 Nov 2014 - 12:16 am

New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Thursday approved three major projects for the power sector, the power ministry said in a statement here....

Saradha probe: CBI arrests Trinamool MP 22 Nov 2014 - 12:15 am

Kolkata: On a day another Trinamool Congress parliamentarian was arrested in connection with the multi-crore-rupee Saradha scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee...

Former PM to be chargesheeted in Musharraf case 21 Nov 2014 - 11:59 pm

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court trying former military ruler Pervez Musharraf for treason yesterday ordered the government to add a former prime minister, law...