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Devotees break fast 22 Jul 2014 - 08:02 am

Devotees break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in New Delhi yesterday.

Japan, Mongolia to sign free trade deal 22 Jul 2014 - 08:01 am

TOKYO: Japan and Mongolia will sign a free-trade deal when their leaders hold talks in Tokyo later Tuesday, reports said, as Japan looks...

Swimming in a weed-covered pond 22 Jul 2014 - 08:01 am

A boy swims in a weed-covered pond on the outskirts of the eastern city of Bhubaneswar yesterday.

Guest house collapses 22 Jul 2014 - 08:00 am

Locals search for their belongings from the debris after an extended wall of a guest house collapsed on houses situated in low lying...

Philippines raises storm alert level as Matmo churns toward Taiwan 22 Jul 2014 - 07:59 am

MANILA: The Philippines raised storm alert levels on Tuesday as Typhoon Matmo threatened to drench the extreme north of the main island of...

Congress faces fresh rebellion 22 Jul 2014 - 07:59 am

New Delhi: Troubles mounted for Congress yesterday as two senior ministers - Narayan Rane in poll-bound Maharashtra and Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam...

Preflight checks find pilots on wrong foot 22 Jul 2014 - 07:58 am

NEW DELHI: Random preflight safety checks have caught 99 tipsy pilots since 2011, the aviation minister told parliament yesterday. The revelation could fuel...

Energy security driver to development, says Modi 22 Jul 2014 - 07:58 am

Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday reiterated that energy security, increasingly based on clean and reliable sources, was the critical driver of India’s...

Six more encephalitis deaths in Bengal, toll 58 22 Jul 2014 - 07:57 am

Siliguri: Six more patients died of Japanese encephalitis in northern West Bengal yesterday, as the toll climbed to 58 over the past 19...

School head arrested for caning blind students 22 Jul 2014 - 07:57 am

HYDERABAD: Police arrested a school principal yesterday after a video showing him allegedly thrashing three blind children with a cane was posted on...

Two die in suicide bombing 22 Jul 2014 - 07:57 am

Afghan National Police remove a damaged police vehicle after a suicide bombing in Lashkar Gah, capital of southern Helmand province, yesterday. Two people,...

Itikaf in Jalalabad 22 Jul 2014 - 07:56 am

An Afghan Muslim doing Itikaf worship in Jalalabad, yesterday. Itikaf is a pious Islamic practice consisting of a period of retreat in a...

China ‘will not fill US void’ in Afghanistan 22 Jul 2014 - 07:55 am

BEIJING: China does not seek to fill a void left in Afghanistan by the withdrawal of US troops but will play a “huge”...

Misuse of farming loan feared 22 Jul 2014 - 07:54 am

KARACHI: The Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) has said that the Rs7.6bn loan by the World Bank for agricultural improvements will be lost...

Pakistani elders bar women from getting aid 22 Jul 2014 - 07:53 am

BANNU: Some tribal elders in a city in northwest Pakistan have decreed that families fleeing a military offensive should not allow women to...

1,500 ballistic helmets approved for KP police 22 Jul 2014 - 07:53 am

PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has approved Rs30m for procurement of 1,500 ballistic helmets for police department. The police had requested...

PTI plans march over delay in setting up poll reforms panel 22 Jul 2014 - 07:53 am

ISLAMABAD: Delays in the formation of a Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms is making it difficult for the government to pacify the Pakistan...

New directorate to improve law and order 22 Jul 2014 - 07:52 am

ISLAMABAD: A Directorate of Internal Security (DIS) under National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) of Pakistan is being established to strengthen security and improve...