Default / Miscellaneous

Tokyo stocks slump 1.15pc to two-month low 10 Oct 2014 - 10:28 am

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks slipped 1.15 percent to a two-month low Friday after losses on Wall Street as traders grow concerned about the global...

First UN peacekeeper killed in attack in Central African Republic 10 Oct 2014 - 09:30 am

BANGUI: A UN peacekeeper was killed and eight others were wounded in an attack on the UN mission in the Central African Republic...

World Bank pledges $50m for Haiti Water and Sanitation Programme 10 Oct 2014 - 09:26 am

WASHINGTON: World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim pledged $50 million ahead of the "Haiti: Clean water, Improved sanitation, Better health" conference and...

Venezuela fined $1.6bn for taking ExxonMobil assets 10 Oct 2014 - 09:13 am

NEW YORK: A World Bank arbitration panel Thursday ruled that the Venezuelan government must pay ExxonMobil $1.6 billion to compensate for taking control...

Chinese fisherman killed in South Korean coastguard raid 10 Oct 2014 - 09:01 am

SEOUL: A Chinese fisherman was killed on Friday in a South Korean coastguard operation to apprehend his vessel which was operating illegally off...

Malaysia's Bank Islam sets up 1bn ringgit Basel III sukuk programme 10 Oct 2014 - 08:54 am

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Bank Islam, wholly-owned by BIMB Holdings Bhd, has set up a 1 billion ringgit ($307 million) subordinated Islamic bond programme,...

Homemade liquor death toll at 29 10 Oct 2014 - 05:34 am

Relatives grieve after the death of a liquor victim outside a hospital in Karachi yesterday. KARACHI: Six more people have died from alcohol...

Watermelon vendor 10 Oct 2014 - 05:33 am

An Afghan watermelon vendor waits for customers at the roadside in Kandahar province yesterday. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of...

US drone strike kills four in Waziristan 10 Oct 2014 - 05:32 am

PESHAWAR: A US drone attack has killed at least four militants in a restive northwestern Pakistani tribal area on the Afghan border, officials...

Pakistani evacuees in need of $99m support 10 Oct 2014 - 05:32 am

ISLAMABAD: As against $44.6m pledged or contributed by donors, a staggering $99m more is still required to meet the humanitarian needs of people...

Meeting on border firing today 10 Oct 2014 - 05:32 am

ISLAMABAD: Amidst escalating tensions on its volatile eastern border, Pakistan’s apex forum on national security will meet today to discuss the reported repeated...

US ‘will not back unlawful steps over Sharif’ 10 Oct 2014 - 05:32 am

LONDON: The US Ambassador in Pakistan, Richard Olson, has said that America will not support ‘unconstitutional steps’ in Pakistan and was firmly ‘in...

Pakistan will get befitting reply to ‘adventurism’ 10 Oct 2014 - 05:31 am

A villager stands in front of the pockmarked wall of a building allegedly damaged by shelling from the Pakistani side of the Kashmir...

Diwali preparations 10 Oct 2014 - 05:30 am

A potter makes earthen lamps at his workshop ahead of Diwali festival, in Ahmedabad yesterday. The festival begins on October 23.

Jayalalithaa moves SC for bail 10 Oct 2014 - 05:30 am

New Delhi: Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, lodged in a Bangalore jail following her conviction for corruption, yesterday moved the Supreme...

Veteran journalist M V Kamath dead 10 Oct 2014 - 05:30 am

Udupi: Veteran journalist and former Prasar Bharati chairman M V Kamath, who was one of the earliest biographers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...

Andhra, Odisha on alert over cyclonic storm 10 Oct 2014 - 05:29 am

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh has put its coastal districts on alert as cyclonic storm, ‘Hudhud’, over Bay of Bengal is heading towards the coast...

Over 400 screened for Ebola, no infection yet 10 Oct 2014 - 05:29 am

Panaji: More than 400 persons with suspected symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus have been screened in India, but no infection has been...