YANGON: Myanmar’s reformist president has warned that newly-won media freedoms could be curtailed if stability is threatened by religious bloodshed shaking the former...
YANGON: Myanmar’s reformist president has warned that newly-won media freedoms could be curtailed if stability is threatened by religious bloodshed shaking the former...
MANILA: A Philippine priest faces possible sanctions after his scathing condemnation of an unwed mother in church ignited a social media firestorm, his...
DHAKA: A UN tribunal has awarded Bangladesh nearly four-fifths of an area spread over 25,000 sq km in the Bay of Bengal, ending...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British Foreign Secretary William Hague shake hands during a meeting in New Delhi yesterday. Hague is on a...
New Delhi: Bullet trains are set to become a reality in India with the first service between Mumbai and Ahmedabad as Prime Minister...
Bollywood actors Shahid Kapoor (left) and Shraddha Kapoor pose during a promotional for the forthcoming Hindi film ‘Haider’, which is written and directed...
PATNA: Bihar state has sacked 1,100 school teachers in the last five years for faking their own education qualifications, an official said yesterday....
Dar-es-Salaam: At least eight people, most of them Indian nationals, were injured in a bomb blast in a restaurant in Tanzania’s northern tourism...
NEW DELHI: Mahatma Gandhi, who led efforts to end British rule in India and was repeatedly imprisoned, is to be honoured with a...
New Delhi: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi yesterday met President Pranab Mukherjee amid the party’s push that its leader in the Lok Sabha should...
KABUL: Presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah claimed victory yesterday in Afghanistan’s disputed election, blaming fraud for putting him behind in preliminary results. Abdullah told...
KABUL: A Taliban suicide bomber killed 16 people, including 10 civilians and four Czech soldiers, in an attack in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, officials...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani jets bombed insurgent hideouts in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan and killed at least 13 militants yesterday, the military said....
PARIS: A common set of genes play a role in learning to read and do maths, with tiny variants influencing a child’s skills...
NEW YORK: A New York man says television announcers who teased him on air for falling asleep at a New York Yankees game...
LONDON: Fictional boy wizard Harry Potter made his first appearance in seven years yesterday, featuring as a nearly 34-year-old with grey hairs in...
ZURICH: More than 200 budding Swiss songwriters have entered a public competition to come up with a new, more rousing national anthem, according...
Dr Mohammed Yousef Al Mulla, Vice-Chairman & CEO, Qapco, and Mohammed Abdullah Al Maraghi, Principal, with one of the students at the ceremony....
