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...
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...
BANGUI: A UN peacekeeper was killed and eight others were wounded in an attack on the UN mission in the Central African Republic...
WASHINGTON: World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim pledged $50 million ahead of the "Haiti: Clean water, Improved sanitation, Better health" conference and...
NEW YORK: A World Bank arbitration panel Thursday ruled that the Venezuelan government must pay ExxonMobil $1.6 billion to compensate for taking control...
SEOUL: A Chinese fisherman was killed on Friday in a South Korean coastguard operation to apprehend his vessel which was operating illegally off...
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,...
Relatives grieve after the death of a liquor victim outside a hospital in Karachi yesterday. KARACHI: Six more people have died from alcohol...
An Afghan watermelon vendor waits for customers at the roadside in Kandahar province yesterday. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of...
PESHAWAR: A US drone attack has killed at least four militants in a restive northwestern Pakistani tribal area on the Afghan border, officials...
ISLAMABAD: As against $44.6m pledged or contributed by donors, a staggering $99m more is still required to meet the humanitarian needs of people...
ISLAMABAD: Amidst escalating tensions on its volatile eastern border, Pakistan’s apex forum on national security will meet today to discuss the reported repeated...
LONDON: The US Ambassador in Pakistan, Richard Olson, has said that America will not support ‘unconstitutional steps’ in Pakistan and was firmly ‘in...
A villager stands in front of the pockmarked wall of a building allegedly damaged by shelling from the Pakistani side of the Kashmir...
A potter makes earthen lamps at his workshop ahead of Diwali festival, in Ahmedabad yesterday. The festival begins on October 23.
New Delhi: Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, lodged in a Bangalore jail following her conviction for corruption, yesterday moved the Supreme...
Udupi: Veteran journalist and former Prasar Bharati chairman M V Kamath, who was one of the earliest biographers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh has put its coastal districts on alert as cyclonic storm, ‘Hudhud’, over Bay of Bengal is heading towards the coast...
Panaji: More than 400 persons with suspected symptoms of the deadly Ebola virus have been screened in India, but no infection has been...