Lucknow: In an embarrassment to the ruling Samajwadi Party, a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad yesterday issued bailable warrants against Chief Minister Akhilesh...
Lucknow: In an embarrassment to the ruling Samajwadi Party, a court in Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad yesterday issued bailable warrants against Chief Minister Akhilesh...
New Delhi: India yesterday summoned the Iranian ambassador over the continued detention of its oil tanker MT Desh Shanti, carrying 140,000 tonnes of...
Border Security Force personnel beside a mangled vehicle at the scene of a landmine blast by Maoists in Koraput district, some 500km from...
New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi (pictured), taken to a hospital on Monday night after taking ill in parliament, “is perfectly all right...
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha yesterday passed a bill to amend the Representation of People Act to allow a person in police custody...
Panaji: A sitting Samajwadi Party legislator from Uttar Pradesh has been arrested in a raid on a dance bar here, police said yesterday....
Child labourers carry metal items, using a hand cart in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Kabul is heavily dependent on foreign donors, but there are fears...
HERAT: The Afghan Taliban killed 12 Afghan workers in two provinces after accusing them of working for the government, officials said yesterday, the...
KABUL: A consortium of Chinese investors has demanded a review of a landmark $3bn deal to produce copper in Afghanistan, the Ministry of...
THE HAGUE: Teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by a Taliban militant last October after campaigning for girls’ right to education,...
KARACHI: Pakistan’s government has paid $393m as part repayment of its loan facility with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a central bank spokesman...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan yesterday signed an agreement to strengthen economic and trade cooperation. The ceremony took place in the presence of Pakistan...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) lost much of ground in August 22 by-polls as it failed to fulfil its election promises, notably local...
Tamil protesters hold photographs of missing relatives at a demonstration in Jaffna yesterday. JAFFNA: Protesters in Sri Lanka criticised the United Nations for...
SEOUL: A UN inquiry gathering harrowing testimony of human rights abuses in North Korea appealed yesterday for access to the country, even as...
BEIJING: China yesterday brushed aside calls from Japan to hold a leaders’ summit as “grandstanding”, while Japan’s finance minister said Tokyo should make...
DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities have restricted imports of powdered milk mostly from New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra following a contamination scare that has seen...
BEIJING: Conjoined twin baby girls have been released from a hospital in China almost three weeks after they were separated in a marathon...
