MOSCOW: A Russian court yesterday sentenced seven activists to prison terms of up to four years over a protest against President Vladimir Putin...
MOSCOW: A Russian court yesterday sentenced seven activists to prison terms of up to four years over a protest against President Vladimir Putin...
Motorcyclists supporting Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro ride on the main highway during a rally for peace in Caracas yesterday. CARACAS: A Venezuelan ruling...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon plans to scale back the US Army by more than an eighth to its lowest level since before World War...
WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday declined to comment on claims that its spies are conducting sweeping surveillance of hundreds of prominent Germans, though...
BANGUI: Two Chadian soldiers, three Muslim civilians and two Christian militiamen were killed in another weekend of violence in Bangui but France’s top...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis yesterday revolutionised the Vatican’s scandal-plagued finances, inviting outside experts into a world often seen as murky and secretive and...
GUWAHATI: A man died yesterday after setting himself on fire over the denial of land rights by the northeast Assam state government, officials...
A leopard leaps across a wall in a residential area as a bystander moves out of the way, in Meerut yesterday. The leopard...
New recruits of Jammu and Kashmir police celebrate after the passing out parade in Sheeri, Baramulla, some 65km north of Srinagar, yesterday. At...
BEIJING: China yesterday rejected remarks by Indian opposition leader Narendra Modi that it has an “expansionist mindset”, saying it has never grabbed the...
NEW DELHI: India has dropped a plan to use a tough anti-piracy law to prosecute two Italian marines who killed two fishermen, the...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a PIL seeking a CBI probe into alleged interference by Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in...
New Delhi: Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung has defended his decision to cancel the “management quota” in the criteria for nursery school admissions,...
by Moiz Mannan A recent ruling by India’s apex tax adjudicator is likely to lessen the income tax burden on hundreds of non-resident...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the federal government’s plea seeking to restrain the Tamil Nadu government from releasing the...
New Delhi/Patna: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) yesterday seemed headed for a split after 13 legislators said they were no longer with the...
PARIS: A Spanish astronomer yesterday said he had witnessed a fridge-sized asteroid smash into the Moon, in the biggest lunar impact by a...
Afghan honour guards stand next to the coffins of soldiers as they pay tributes to the victims of a Taliban attack, in Ghaziabad...
