Washington: President Barack Obama has nominated Puneet Talwar, a noted Indian-American Middle East policy specialist, to a key diplomatic post as the assistant...
Washington: President Barack Obama has nominated Puneet Talwar, a noted Indian-American Middle East policy specialist, to a key diplomatic post as the assistant...
Kolkata: In a fresh ragging incident in a West Bengal educational institution, two students of Jadavpur University here were suspended yesterday for allegedly...
Pakistani Rangers take position during a search operation in the Apsara Apartment in Liuaqtabad in Karachi yesterday. ISLAMABAD: The federal government has noted...
MULTAN: Toxic liquor has killed at least 12 people in central Pakistan, police and health officials said yesterday. The deaths occurred near the...
KARACHI: The power sector outperformed the KSE-100 by 11 percent in FY13 ended June 30, generating a return of 60 percent as compared...
ISLAMABAD: The re-organisation of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is under way and senior party leader Aitzaz Ahsan is being tipped as the...
ISLAMABAD: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Ahmad Shah, who had represented the PPP in the government-sponsored All Party Conference held...
ISLAMABAD: Commander of the National Guard of Bahrain, Lieutenant General Sheikh Mohammad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, called on Prime Minister Muhammad...
North Koreaan delegates (left) greet their South Korean counterparts before their meeting at the Kaesong industrial complex in North Korea. SEOUL: North and...
BANGKOK: Thai rubber farmers have called off demonstrations planned for the weekend after the government doubled its subsidy for production and offered help...
YANGON: A government-appointed body that oversees Myanmar’s Buddhist monkhood has issued a directive intended to check the influence of a monk-led movement accused...
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s ruling party expelled the parliamentary speaker yesterday after he was accused of meddling in a lawmaker’s court case, deepening a political...
JAKARTA: Indonesian farmers in a province at the centre of Southeast Asia’s worst smog outbreak for years have filed a lawsuit against the...
BEIJING: China said yesterday that it will ditch 76 pointless official - and sometimes obscure - awards as it seeks to rein in...
Soldiers take up positions behind an armoured personnel carrier and (Right) villagers, believed to be hostages, signal with a white blanket to stop...
MANILA: About 1,000 people staged a street protest in the Philippines yesterday in the second Internet-fuelled demonstration in three weeks against alleged large-scale...
MANILA: Four countries — Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and the US — have warned their citizens against traveling to Zamboanga and other parts...
MANILA: There is no need to declare a state of emergency in Zamboanga City despite continued skirmishes between security forces and armed followers...
