New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday asked stakeholders in higher education to urgently consider the issues of quality and shortage of faculty...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday asked stakeholders in higher education to urgently consider the issues of quality and shortage of faculty...
Thane (Maharashtra): President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday paid homage to Marathi warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji, describing him as “a great military genius, a brilliant...
An Afghan man walks past a market during a winter morning in downtown Kabul on Friday. According to the World Bank, about 97...
A man walks past a wall adorned with graffiti painted by various artists to promote peace, along a sidewalk in Karachi, on Friday.
PESHAWAR: Gunmen shot dead a health officer supervising an anti-polio vaccination campaign after storming a hospital where children were being immunised in Pakistan’s...
LAHORE: Pakistani province Punjab’s Agriculture Minister Dr Farrukh Javed has announced that 1,277 megawatts of electricity will be generated from 10.94 million tonnes...
ISLAMABAD: When a former military ruler is put in the dock for treason in a country which has been under dictatorships for the...
ISLAMABAD: The much-awaited local government (LG) elections in Punjab and Sindh may not take place as per schedule because government printing presses have...
ISLAMABAD: The mobile vehicle verification system introduced by the capital police on September 26 has been suspended due to unknown reasons. Sources in...
PESHAWAR: The Higher Education Department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has planned to introduce the four-year Bachelor of Studies (BS) programme in all government...
QUETTA: Balochistan government has announced to stage a sit-in against kidnapping for ransom in the province, Geo News reported. Addressing a press conference...
A family makes its way along a road at a park in Beijing yesterday. BEIJING: China’s top legislative committee formally approved a loosening...
Body bags containing the remains of typhoon victims seen on the premises of the Health Centre of Barangay San Isidro, Tacloban City, in...
A Japanese female diver cleans the glass of an aquarium as an alfred manta swims beside her during the year-end cleaning operation at...
An aerial photo shows a bird’s eye view of suburban Manila. The Philippine economy should grow 7 percent this year and between 6.5...
HONG KONG: More than 500 municipal lawmakers in one Chinese province have stood down following an electoral fraud scandal, as Beijing ramps up...
BANGKOK: A Thai protester was killed and four wounded yesterday, an emergency official said, when an unidentified gunman opened fire on demonstrators whose...
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping showed off the common touch yesterday with a surprise visit to a steamed bun restaurant in Beijing where...
