New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move to further bolster his cabinet yesterday with party leaders with an established track record may present...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move to further bolster his cabinet yesterday with party leaders with an established track record may present...
New Delhi: Almost 30 years after the Bhopal gas tragedy, several survivors of the world’s worst industrial disasters will today commence an indefinite...
Mumbai: Nepal’s social crusader Anuradha Koirala, who has rescued more than 12,000 women from human trafficking and Maharashtra’s social worker Prakash Amte were...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (left) and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during a signing ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, yesterday....
Typhoon survivors perform during a K-Pop dance competition organised by South Korean soldiers as they commemorate the victims of last year’s typhoon in...
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Taiwan yesterday to set aside their differences after a rocky patch in ties that saw Beijing...
HONG KONG: Hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters marched yesterday to the Chinese government’s offices in the semi-autonomous city, demanding direct talks with...
MANILA: A New People’s Army(NPA) rebel was killed following a firefight in Negros Oriental yesterday, said military officials. Ray Tiongson, public affairs officer...
The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (centre) is cheered by German President Joachim Gauck (third left) and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit (second right)...
Smoke rises above an old terminal building of the Sergey Prokofiev International Airport after the shelling during fighting between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has taken responsibility for his party’s crushing defeat in last week’s midterm elections, he said in comments broadcast...
PARIS: France’s former prime minister Francois Fillon yesterday complained of a “plot” against him, amid media revelations he sought to interfere in legal...
ADDIS ABABA: The African Union, African Development Bank and regional business leaders have set up a crisis fund to help areas hit by...
BERLIN: Within a matter of weeks and without bloodshed, the feared East German regime was swept aside by demonstrators in 1989 and the...
TOKYO: Japanese aircraft leasing giant SMBC Aviation Capital plans to buy 80 Boeing jets in a deal worth as much as $8.7 billion,...
Policemen supervise the arrival of ambulances at the entrance to police headquarters after the blast in Kabul yesterday. KABUL: A suicide bomber walked...
SINGAPORE: Oil prices rose in Asia on Monday as dealers digested mixed US jobs data while anticipating a surge in fuel demand during...
Minority Christians chant slogans against the murder of a Christian couple during a protest in Karachi yesterday.
