New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday called up new Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and conveyed to him that India will stand as...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday called up new Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and conveyed to him that India will stand as...
NEW DELHI: India plans to build a highway along its remote, disputed border with China in the country’s northeast, an official said yesterday,...
New Delhi: The criteria for approving medical colleges both in government and private sectors would be liberalised, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said...
New Delhi: India yesterday made it mandatory for tobacco companies to devote 85 percent space on packets of cigarettes and other tobacco products...
New Delhi: Taking a dim view of the snail’s pace at which the Ganga action plan for cleaning the 2,525-km-long river had progressed,...
New Delhi: CBI Director Ranjit Sinha was pulled up by a court here yesterday for approving a closure report in coal block allocation...
A cake is shown to congratulate Malala for winning the Nobel Peace Prize winner in Islamabad on Tuesday. ISLAMABAD: Malala Yousafzai may have...
A picture made available yesterday shows Shahidullah Shahid (centre), the spokesman of Pakistani Taliban, speaking to journalists at an undisclosed location near the...
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber killed seven people in Pakistan yesterday in an attack on a government-backed militia near the Afghan border, security officials...
QUETTA: More than 300,000 people including minority Shias and Hindus have fled Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan over the past 10 years due...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim league-N government has decided to provide health insurance cover to the poorest of the poor families of 16 backward...
ISLAMABAD: Governor of Pakistan’s populous Punjab province Mohammad Sarwar has met Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and expressed his desire to play an active...
Police tape cordons off the street after a second healthcare worker was diagnosed with Ebola, in Dallas, Texas, yesterday. WASHINGTON/brussels: A second Texas...
Passengers wait for a U-Bahn underground train during a nationwide strike of Germany’s train drivers’ union GDL, at Friedrichstrasse underground station in Berlin...
SYDNEY: A torrent of water which gushed into the cabin of a Qantas superjumbo, raining down on some passengers’ heads, could have been...
TBILISI: Georgia yesterday warned Russia against taking further steps to integrate its separatist region of Abkhazia, saying it would create new security problems...
London: Lord Freud, the welfare reform minister, has offered a “full and unreserved apology” after Ed Miliband revealed that he told a fringe...
BANGUI: At least three people were killed and hundreds forced to flee their homes in attacks by the “anti-balaka” militia in the capital...