New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram yesterday said the government will take some “hard decisions” in the next few days to curb imports...
New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram yesterday said the government will take some “hard decisions” in the next few days to curb imports...
Kolkata: Describing the killing of Indian author Sushmita Banerjee in Afghanistan as “condemnable” and “unfortunate”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said...
by Moiz Mannan The rupee defence move of liberalising bank deposit rates for non-resident Indians by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is...
Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi yesterday criticised Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the slowing economy...
NEW DELHI: Lawmakers have passed a long-awaited bill to ban manual scavenging — the clearing of human waste from toilets — by workers...
Chennai: Problems with valves in the first unit at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) has delayed the synchronisation of the unit with...
Kolkata: At least 31 infants died in the state-run B C Roy Post-Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences here over the past four days,...
A family walks past mounted police officers blockading an area near the Esplanada de los Ministerios in Brasilia yesterday. BRASILIA: Police used teargas...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama appealed yesterday to a dubious American public to back his bid to use military force in Syria while...
London: A full-scale security review has been launched at Buckingham Palace after a man was arrested in a state room after scaling a...
BERLIN: German police said they were investigating an apparent attempt to blackmail Peer Steinbrueck, the Social Democrats’ (SPD) challenger to Angela Merkel in...
GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemala braced for more aftershocks yesterday, a day after a strong 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the south of the country, leading...
Members of a GCC delegation during their visit to Aspetar. DOHA: Aspetar, Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, has been recognised as a...
DOHA: The Ministry of Environment has extended the ban on bird-call whistles that can be used to attract some of the protected species...
DOHA: The Research Centre for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), member of Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, in an international conference has discussed...
DOHA: A criminal court has sentenced two Asians to three years in jail for stealing huge cash from a car after smashing out...
BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB DOHA: India’s decision to impose import duty on flat television panels (LCD/LED) has led to a sharp decline in the...