BRISBANE: President Barack Obama sought yesterday to reassure Asia-Pacific allies about Washington’s strategic shift toward the region as he sent a veiled message...
BRISBANE: President Barack Obama sought yesterday to reassure Asia-Pacific allies about Washington’s strategic shift toward the region as he sent a veiled message...
BEIJING: China and Myanmar signed deals worth $7.8bn for energy, agriculture, telecommunications, infrastructure and finance during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the...
JAKARTA: A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 was recorded off the Moluccas in Indonesia yesterday, the national disaster mitigation agency said,...
Afghans attend the funeral ceremony of Sheikh Azizullah Najafi, a prominent Islamic cleric who was gunned down by unknown assailants, in Herat, Afghanistan,...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (centre) and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (right) hand over a prize of Rs100,000 to Afghan cricket team captain...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri (pictured) yesterday rejected a Joint Investigation Team formed by the Punjab government to investigate...
Afghan National army soldiers clean their weapons at their military camp in Kunduz, Afghanistan, yesterday. Sixty-one Taliban militants were killed and 47 arrested...
KARACHI: Pakistani police said Friday they had killed five Taliban militants in a gunfight in the southern port city of Karachi. The shootout...
ISLAMABAD: The Zarb-e-Azb operation has boosted US confidence in Pakistan’s commitment to combating terrorist groups operating within its borders, a Washington Post report...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has started installing 1,500 CCTV cameras in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad as part of an online...
Doctor R K Gupta (centre-in blue shirt), who performed sterilisation operations after which many women lost their lives, during a court hearing in...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott (right) look at a koala, held by keeper Michele Barnes, before the G20...
Activists of the All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference moderate faction shout slogans outside the office of the United National Military Observers Group in...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court congratulated Kailash Satyarthi for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, while disposing of a petition seeking complete elimination...
Patna: At least 25 children fell ill yesterday after having their mid-day meal at a government school in Bihar, while 15 fell ill...
New Delhi: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal yesterday launched the party’s Delhi Dialogue campaign and wooed the national capital’s youth by promising 800,000 jobs,...
Chandigarh: Tension prevailed in Haryana’s Hisar district yesterday as thousands of followers of sect leader Rampal geared up to thwart any attempt by...
Siliguri: Three women, including one from Thailand, and five men were yesterday arrested in this northern West Bengal town for running a vice...