New Delhi: With millions of Indians working as unskilled or low-skilled workers in the Gulf region, Indian missions there have “major problems” dealing...
New Delhi: With millions of Indians working as unskilled or low-skilled workers in the Gulf region, Indian missions there have “major problems” dealing...
New Delhi: The BJP appeared to be inching closer towards announcing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, possibly today,...
New Delhi: Sikkim’s first airport will be completed by end-2014 providing much-needed air connectivity to the landlocked state, Tourism Minister Bhim Prasad Dhungel...
Kolkata: Angry protesters — mostly parents and guardians — laid siege to a West Bengal school yesterday forcing its principal to resign for...
New Delhi: The sentences of the four men convicted for gang-raping a 23-year-old woman on December 16, 2012 will be pronounced today by...
Afghan football fans celebrate winning the South Asian Football Federation championship after their team defeated India, on the streets of Kabul yesterday. KABUL:...
ISLAMABAD: Senior Pakistani Taliban commanders opened discussions yesterday on how to respond to an invitation from the government on talks to end an...
QUETTA: Gunmen overnight kidnapped and killed three labourers working in Pakistan’s insurgency-plagued southwest not far from a strategic Arabian Sea port taken over...
LAHORE: The Foreign Office spokesman yesterday said the government of Pakistan had prepared a case aimed at raising the issue of US drone...
ISLAMABAD: None of the Afghan Taliban prisoners freed by Pakistan has returned home yet, said a Taliban source yesterday. Moreover, neither have the...
KABUL: Once a ruthless fighter and a friend of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, Abdul Ghani Baradar may now hold the key to...
Indonesian police attempting to block Shias in their parade outside the Shia Islamic Boarding School in eastern Java island. The parade provoked Sunnis...
WASHINGTON: North Korea appears to have restarted a reactor that produces plutonium, making good on threats to boost its stockpile of nuclear weapons,...
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s opposition said yesterday that it had filed a lawsuit against the kingdom’s poll authorities over strongman Prime Minister Hun Sen’s...
BANGKOK: More than 200 Muslim Rohingya boat people have landed in southern Thailand, authorities said yesterday, a possible sign that vessels from Myanmar...
DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities yesterday widened a tax probe against 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, accusing seven enterprises he founded and chairs...
DHAKA: A dozen retailers and clothing brands are meeting in Geneva to discuss providing compensation to the victims of the Rana Plaza and...
JAKARTA: The Indonesian navy said yesterday it would turn back a boat of six Australian activists seeking to sail into the restive region...