New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government yesterday appointed senior Supreme Court counsel Mukul Rohatgi, who appeared for the Gujarat government in several 2002...
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government yesterday appointed senior Supreme Court counsel Mukul Rohatgi, who appeared for the Gujarat government in several 2002...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court yesterday refused to entertain a plea seeking action against former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for writing an...
He Liang rides his home-made suitcase vehicle along a street in Changsha in China’s Hunan province, yesterday. He spent 10 years modifying the...
Armed pro-Russian militants guard Denis Pushilin (centre), the self-styled governor of the so-called People’s Republic of Donetsk, during a demonstration by coal miners...
Uruguay’s forensic and justice personnel work on an Argentine aircraft that crashed in the Rio de la Plata, some 10km south of Carmelo,...
WEST POINT, United States: President Barack Obama mounted a defiant defence of his global leadership yesterday, rebuking critics who see him as weak...
MADRID: About 500 African migrants leapt a towering, triple-layer border fence to cross from Morocco to the tiny Spanish territory of Melilla yesterday,...
HAVANA: Fledgling Cuban independent online newspaper 14ymedio yesterday published an interview with US Vice-President Joe Biden, who expressed hope that Havana’s economic reforms...
BRUSSELS: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s diluted support for Jean-Claude Juncker’s bid to be European Commission president has thrown the field open to other candidates,...
MAIDUGURI: Four more girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last month have escaped their captors, the education commissioner for Nigeria’s Borno state said...
Officials wait for voters in a polling station near the Saladin Citadel on the third day of voting in Cairo yesterday. CAIRO: Egyptian...
Israeli border guards detain a Palestinian man as ultra-nationalist Israelis take part in the “flag march” through Damascus Gate in east Jerusalem yesterday...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is working with international scientific organisations to improve its response to a deadly new virus that has killed 186 people...
BEIRUT: Refugees waved flags and held pictures of Bashar Al Assad as they crushed into Damascus’s embassy in Lebanon yesterday to join Syrians...
RAMALLAH: Israeli soldiers raided the offices of a Palestinian newspaper here yesterday, ordering them to stop printing publications by Hamas, managers said. “Officers...
ALGIERS: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday that progress has been made in his talks with EU diplomatic chief Catherine Ashton...
TRIPOLI: A rogue ex-Libyan general resumed air strikes on jihadists in the city of Benghazi yesterday, while gunmen attacked an interior ministry team...
Officials at the event. Doha: Within the framework of its digital inclusion programmes, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology yesterday launched ‘Better...