TOKYO: Japanese stocks soared 2.48 percent to a one-month high Monday as investors cheered Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics, while...
TOKYO: Japanese stocks soared 2.48 percent to a one-month high Monday as investors cheered Tokyo's successful bid to host the 2020 Olympics, while...
MUSCAT: Omani authorities have arrested 90 people of various nationalities who illegally entered the Gulf country. A police statement issued on Monday said...
DUBAI: A Saudi diplomat kidnapped in Yemen by Al-Qaeda has urged his relatives to stage protests to push Riyadh to answer the demands...
NEW DELHI: Hundreds of troops have been deployed to India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh after at least 23 people were killed in...
DUBAI: Bahrain's Al Salam Bank has agreed to acquire fellow Bahraini lender BMI Bank, an affiliate of Oman's Bank Muscat, through a share-swap...
Pedestrians walk past advertisements for the iPhone 5 at the Apple store in central Tokyo on September 6, 2013. SAN FRANCISCO: Apple's highly...
BEIJING: Two people have been killed and 17 others injured in an explosion near a school in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region...
Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Monday Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency Buying...
BANGKOK: A Thai Airways plane skidded off the runway in Bangkok after the landing gear malfunctioned, slightly injuring more than a dozen passengers...
BEIJING: A businesswoman linked to China's disgraced railway minister faces charges of illegal business activities worth 180 billion yuan or $29 billion, state-run...
ZAMBOANGA: A group of 100 heavily-armed Muslim rebels opposed to peace talks launched a major attack that shut down a bustling southern Philippine...
Army vehicles patrol on a deserted road during a curfew in Muzaffarnagar yesterday. LUCKNOW: The army was called in, an unusual measure, as...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has nothing to hide in the coal block allocation controversy and will make himself available to CBI...
Kolkata: In a new twist to the Sushmita Banerjee case, a friend of the slain author yesterday claimed she was in mental trauma...
Agartala: Tripura achieved the first position in literacy with 94.65 percent, beating Kerala (93.91 percent), Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar announced here yesterday....
New Delhi: At a time when MPs are not seen to take their legislative business seriously — the last session was an exception...
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala is awaiting the central government’s clearance for a proposed port at Vizhinjam, a minister said yesterday. Ports and Fisheries Minister K...
Lucknow: A nursery class student in a posh school here was raped on the premises after being lured by a woman staffer with...
