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Six dead in Philippine epidemic caused by rat urine 09 Oct 2013 - 08:27 am

MANILA: A bacterial epidemic caused by water contaminated with rat urine has hit a flood-ravaged region in the northern Philippines, killing six people...

Samsung launches world's first smartphone with curved screen 09 Oct 2013 - 08:25 am

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday launched the world's first smartphone with a curved display, a variant of the Galaxy Note which...

Panasonic to exit plasma TV display business 09 Oct 2013 - 08:04 am

TOKYO: Panasonic will stop making plasma television screens by early next year, a report said Wednesday, as the struggling electronics giant undergoes a...

Sotheby's sets record with $542m at Hong Kong autumn sales 09 Oct 2013 - 08:03 am

HONG KONG: Sotheby's celebrated its 40 years of business in Asia by raising a better-than-expected HK$4.2 billion or $542 million in Hong Kong,...

Navratri festival 09 Oct 2013 - 04:46 am

An artist gives final touches to an idol of Kali for the Navratri festival in Bhopal, capital of the central state of Madhya...

Army calls off Kashmir operation 09 Oct 2013 - 04:46 am

Srinagar/New Delhi: The Indian Army yestrerday called off its 14-day-long operation in Keran sector of the Line of Control (LOC) in Jammu and...

Visa restrictions to be eased 09 Oct 2013 - 04:45 am

NEW DELHI: India is looking at issuing visas on arrival for visitors from 40 more countries, a minister has said, raising hopes it...

SC: 50pc ceiling does not apply to reservation for disabled 09 Oct 2013 - 04:45 am

New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the “reservation for persons with disabilities has nothing to do with the ceiling of 50...

Success harder for Dalits: Rahul 09 Oct 2013 - 04:45 am

New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi yesterday spoke out forcefully for empowering Dalits, saying the community needed the “escape velocity of Jupiter”...

Tandoor murder: Sushil’s sentence reduced to life 09 Oct 2013 - 04:45 am

New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence awarded to former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma for killing...

Islamic Cultural Centre to come up in Thane 09 Oct 2013 - 04:44 am

Thane: India’s second world-class Islamic Cultural Centre will come up in the Muslim-dominated town of Mumbra in Thane, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit...

Seemandhra to remain without power 09 Oct 2013 - 04:44 am

Hyderabad/New Delhi: Protests continued in Andhra Pradesh’s Seemandhra against the central government’s decision to carve out Telangana, while life was hit hard in...

Only a third of urban Indian voters are online 09 Oct 2013 - 04:44 am

NEW DELHI: A new survey released yesterday by Google revealed that only a third of urban Indian voters accessed the Internet regularly, underlining...

Indian waiter’s remains found in wrecked ship 09 Oct 2013 - 04:44 am

ROME: Italian rescuers have found more human remains on the wreck of Italy’s Costa Concordia, which are believed to belong to one of...

Fresh warrant against Headley 09 Oct 2013 - 04:38 am

New Delhi: A Delhi court yesterday issued fresh non-bailable warrants against nine men, including Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley who is in a US...

Haj objects since 7th century on display 09 Oct 2013 - 04:37 am

Shaika Nasser Al Nassr, Project Manager (right) and Dr Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Lead Curator, during the press conference on the exhibition at MIA yesterday....

16,606 people vow to donate organs 09 Oct 2013 - 04:36 am

Dr Fadhil speaking during the release of statistics of the organ donation campaign during Ramadan, at Fahad bin Jassim Kidney Center yesterday. Kammutty...

Commercial kidney transplants unsafe 09 Oct 2013 - 04:36 am

DOHA: Commercial kidney transplant is unsafe and causes death or restarts dialysis, said Dr Riadh Fadhil, Director of the Qatar Organ Donation Centre...