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Former chief justice Chaudhry to file defamation suit against Imran 26 Sep 2014 - 08:00 am

ISLAMABAD: Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will file defamation suit against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for mental agony,...

65,000 families get relief in KP 26 Sep 2014 - 08:00 am

ISLAMABAD: Merely 65,000 of the 0.8 million poorest-of-the-poor families in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan could be provided relief in the last three...

Pakistani policeman kills pastor on death row 26 Sep 2014 - 08:00 am

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani policeman shot two men in jail yesterday, killing one accused of blasphemy and wounding another condemned to death on the...

‘Make in India’ drive to slash red tape 26 Sep 2014 - 08:00 am

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets the audience as Nirmala Sitharaman (right), Minister of State for Commerce and Industry; Kalraj Mishra, Minister of Micro,...

Festival beckons 26 Sep 2014 - 07:59 am

A man works on a pandal, a temporary platform, being built for the Durga Puja festival in Kolkata yesterday. The Durga Puja festival...

SC annuls key tax tribunal 26 Sep 2014 - 07:58 am

New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday struck down the National Tax Tribunal Act, holding it unconstitutional, violating the constitution’s basic structure and constitutional...

Major political allies split in Maharashtra 26 Sep 2014 - 07:57 am

Mumbai: In a day of fast political developments, Maharashtra’s two main alliances — the BJP-Shiv Sena and the Congress-NCP — yesterday broke up...

First photos of Mars shows orange surface with craters 26 Sep 2014 - 07:57 am

BANGALORE: India’s spacecraft has beamed back its first photos of Mars, showing its crater-marked surface, as the country glowed with pride yesterday after...

Expectations high as Modi leaves for US 26 Sep 2014 - 07:57 am

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for New York yesterday on an official visit focused on boosting trade and resetting ties with...

Outsiders blamed for varsity unrest 26 Sep 2014 - 07:57 am

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi yesrerday accused “outsiders” of “creating trouble” at the Jadavpur University, which announced restriction on visitors citing...

Civil disobedience kit 26 Sep 2014 - 06:33 am

Professor Chan Kin-man (left) and Dr Benny Tai Yiu-ting, conveners of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace Movement, display essential items to...

American begins hard labour sentence in North Korea 26 Sep 2014 - 06:32 am

Matthew Miller SEOUL: Matthew Miller, the American held in North Korea since April for “hostile acts”, began a six-year hard labour sentence yesterday...

Indonesia to vote on provocative poll plan 26 Sep 2014 - 06:31 am

JAKARTA: Protesters burnt tyres outside Indonesia’s parliament yesterday as lawmakers were set to decide whether to scrap the direct election of local leaders,...

Manila: No talks with captors of Germans 26 Sep 2014 - 06:30 am

MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday it would not negotiate with a militant group threatening to behead one of two German hostages, saying it...

China tries ex-top planning official for taking bribes 26 Sep 2014 - 06:30 am

BEIJING: A former top Chinese economic planning official stood trial yesterday for allegedly taking bribes worth nearly $6m, the latest episode in the...

Chinese scholar jailed for life over lecture 26 Sep 2014 - 06:29 am

BEIJING: A prominent Chinese scholar from the mostly-Muslim Uighur ethnic group was jailed for life because of remarks he made in a university...

Ebola: Sierra Leone quarantines 1 million people 26 Sep 2014 - 06:29 am

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (centre) speaks at a meeting about the international response to the Ebola virus outbreak during the 69th session...

Top British preacher among nine arrested in anti-terrorism raid 26 Sep 2014 - 06:28 am

LONDON: Police have arrested Anjem Choudary (pictured), one of the most high-profile Islamists in Britain, and raided 19 premises including one containing a...