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Japan court orders $500,000 damages for overwork suicide 05 Nov 2014 - 10:15 am

TOKYO: A Japanese court has ordered a restaurant chain and two personnel to pay more than half a million dollars damages to the...

Malaysia, Netherlands keep pressing for access to MH17 site 05 Nov 2014 - 10:07 am

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia: The leaders of Malaysia and the Netherlands vowed on Wednesday to keep pressing for access to the crash site of Malaysia...

Oil prices extend losses 05 Nov 2014 - 09:25 am

SINGAPORE: Oil prices extended losses in Asia Wednesday as dealers looked ahead to the release of the latest US supply report after a...

BHP to export ultralight oil, testing US crude ban 05 Nov 2014 - 09:22 am

SYDNEY: Mining giant BHP Billiton said Wednesday it plans to ship ultralight oil from the United States without the government's explicit permission in...

Exchange Rates in Qatar 05 Nov 2014 - 08:36 am

Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Wednesday by Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency...

Assurance to Punjabis 05 Nov 2014 - 07:10 am

Family members of the Punjabi men, held captive by Islamic State militants in Iraq for the past five months, stand next to External...

Painting competition 05 Nov 2014 - 07:09 am

Physically-challenged artist Gokaran Pati holds a brush with his foot to make a painting on the theme ‘Vision of Madhya Pradesh’ during an...

BJP, AAP claim they will win Delhi poll battle 05 Nov 2014 - 07:08 am

New Delhi: Soon after the cabinet recommended the dissolution of the Delhi assembly, both the BJP and the AAP yesterday claimed they were...

Death row fishermen assured of release 05 Nov 2014 - 07:08 am

Chennai/Colombo: India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Yash Sinha yesterday met the five Indian fishermen sentenced to death at Colombo’s Welikada prison and...

Modi like Indira Gandhi: Book 05 Nov 2014 - 07:08 am

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is like Indira Gandhi in leadership style, and he has also instilled a sense of fear in...

Politics should be based on ideology, not violence, says Kerala CM 05 Nov 2014 - 07:08 am

Manjesweram: Politics should be practised on ideology and not by indulging in violence, said Chief Minister Oommen Chandy yesterday. Chandy was speaking after...

India dismisses Pakistani claims on Kashmir at UN 05 Nov 2014 - 07:07 am

United Nations: India dismissed Pakistan’s “unsolicited” comments on Kashmir at the UN, maintaining it was a part of India and asserting that free...

300 people duped of Rs6 crore 05 Nov 2014 - 07:07 am

New Delhi: A 41-year-old man has been arrested for duping 300 people of Rs6 crore by persuading them to invest in Ponzi schemes...

High security 05 Nov 2014 - 07:07 am

Pakistani Police commandoes patrol during Ashura commemoration, in Faisalabad, yesterday.

Pilgrims’ journey 05 Nov 2014 - 07:06 am

Sikh pilgrims from India wave from a train bound for Pakistan at the Attari International Railway Station, 35km from Amritsar, India, yesterday. Thousands...

Pakistan mob kills couple over blasphemy 05 Nov 2014 - 07:05 am

LAHORE: An enraged mob beat a Christian couple to death in Pakistan and burnt their bodies in the brick kiln where they worked...

Fight to save Indus dolphins, turtles 05 Nov 2014 - 07:04 am

SUKKUR, Pakistan: Local legend has it that Pakistan’s Indus River dolphin was once a woman, transformed by a curse from a holy man...

Bombs kill four in NW Pakistan 05 Nov 2014 - 07:04 am

PESHAWAR: Two bombings killed four people yesterday in a restive northwestern Pakistani tribal area where the army is fighting militants, officials said. The...