BANGKOK: Thailand’s deposed former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday ruled out going into self-exile to avoid possible criminal charges, after the country’s junta...
BANGKOK: Thailand’s deposed former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday ruled out going into self-exile to avoid possible criminal charges, after the country’s junta...
TAIPEI: A former Taiwanese prosecutor was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison on corruption charges for taking bribes to cover up gambling...
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan ruling party politician and three accomplices were yesterday sentenced to 20 years in jail for murdering a British holidaymaker...
SEOUL: South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff endorsed a plan yesterday for the country to design its own mid-level fighter jet, which a...
MANILA: The Philippines is pushing for a meeting among four Southeast Asian nations with conflicting claims to waters in the South China Sea...
MANILA: The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced yesterday that a Filipino mother, her son and daughter were among the 298 people on...
MANILA: Indonesian shipbuilder PT PAL confirmed yesterday that it has signed the contract to supply two strategic sealifts vessel to the Philippine Navy....
Firefighters (right) huddle together on the edge of the burning building as they await rescue by Indian Navy and Coast Guard helicopters in...
Caption Members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad try to break down the barricade in a protest against the school management over the abuse...
NEW DELHI: India’s healthcare system is riddled with corruption and the national drug approvals agency is a “snakepit of vested interests”, the health...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday presented Delhi’s Rs36,776 crore budget for fiscal 2014-15 in parliament, proposing a new speciality hospital and...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday acquitted all 11 people convicted of January and April 1993 bomb blasts in Gujarat’s Surat in which...
Kasargod: President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday expressed happiness over progress made by Central University of Kerala here in a short span of time. The...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s most wanted Maoist leader Sabyasachi Panda was arrested yesterday in the state’s Ganjam district. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated police and...
Srinagar: More than 40 people were injured in clashes between security forces and protesters in Baltal base camp of the Amarnath Yatra in...
Pakistani policemen gather at the site of a bomb explosion in Peshawar yesterday. PESHAWAR: Militants killed eight members of a government paramilitary force...
Election workers count ballot papers for an audit of the presidential run-off in Kabul yesterday. The Independent Election Commission said it would bring...
WASHINGTON: US military officials would have preferred the United States not announce a date for ending its troop presence in Afghanistan, as the...