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Hong Kong confirms first human case of H7N9 bird flu 03 Dec 2013 - 09:35 am

HONG KONG: Hong Kong confirmed on Monday its first case of H7N9 bird flu as a 36-year-old Indonesian domestic helper has been hospitalized...

Delhi, Tokyo near pact on civil nuclear deal 03 Dec 2013 - 09:22 am

Japanese Empress Michiko (left) meets students during her visit to the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi yesterday. New Delhi: India and Japan...

Rescue demonstration 03 Dec 2013 - 09:21 am

Navy commandos take part in a rescue demonstration during a rehearsal for December 4 Navy Day celebrations in front of The Gateway of...

108 Muslim candidates in Delhi election fray 03 Dec 2013 - 09:19 am

New Delhi: The Delhi assembly elections tomorrow will see a slight increase in the participation of Muslim candidates from various political parties compared...

Tejpal undergoes blood, potency tests 03 Dec 2013 - 09:19 am

Panaji: Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal yesterday spent most of the time in hospital, undergoing a urology test related to potency, a mandatory general...

Tokyo stocks close up 0.60pc 03 Dec 2013 - 09:19 am

TOKYO:Tokyo stocks closed up 0.60 percent on Tuesday, at their highest for almost six years, as shares of major exporters got a boost...

Three Kerala jailbirds busy on Facebook 03 Dec 2013 - 09:19 am

Thiruvananthapuram: Three inmates of Kozhikode Jail in Kerala, under trial for the brutal murder last year of a former leader of the CPI-M,...

29 years later, Bhopal gas victims still wait for justice 03 Dec 2013 - 09:18 am

New Delhi: It was on the night of December 2-3, 1984, that a toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide plant...

Woman throws baby-daughter out of train 03 Dec 2013 - 09:18 am

Kolkata: A woman was arrested yesterday after she flung her year-old daughter out of a running train in West Bengal’s North 24-Parganas district....

10 die as bus falls into Kashmir ravine 03 Dec 2013 - 09:06 am

A Pakistani man looks at the wreckage of the bus that fell into a ravine in Kashmir region yesterday. MUZAFFARABAD: At least 10...

Open classroom 03 Dec 2013 - 09:04 am

Afghan schoolchildren take lessons in an open classroom at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, on Sunday. Afghanistan has...

Karzai denies delayed poll plea 03 Dec 2013 - 08:59 am

KABUL: President Hamid Karzai denied yesterday that he had urged delaying the elections scheduled for April next year to avoid the heavy snow...

Families urge Pakistan to free Bagram detainees 03 Dec 2013 - 08:59 am

PESHAWAR: Family members and lawyers representing a group of Pakistani men released from a US military prison but held by Pakistani authorities urged...

US aid at risk if no troop accord by Afghanistan 03 Dec 2013 - 08:58 am

BRUSSELS: Nato officials warned Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday that he must sign a US troop status accord or put at risk future...

Islamabad, Kabul to push for Taliban office 03 Dec 2013 - 08:58 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to evolve a new mechanism that seeks to accelerate efforts for bringing a peaceful end to the...

Thai PM opens talks to find peaceful solution 03 Dec 2013 - 08:42 am

An anti-government protester throws back a canister of tear gas at policemen during clashes near the government house in Bangkok yesterday. BANGKOK: Thai...

China sends lunar probe, Yutu buggy 03 Dec 2013 - 08:41 am

The Chang’e-3 rocket, carrying the Jade Rabbit rover, blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwest province of Sichuan yesterday....

No new US army bases in Manila, only troops: Envoy 03 Dec 2013 - 08:39 am

MANILA: The new United States ambassador to the Philippines said they are not building new military bases here but he cited the importance...