Hyderabad: Y S Vijayamma, honorary president of YSR Congress and widow of late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, yesterday began...
Hyderabad: Y S Vijayamma, honorary president of YSR Congress and widow of late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, yesterday began...
Jammu: No pilgrim turned up for the Amarnath Yatra here yesterday, the last date for the passage of pilgrims from winter capital Jammu...
Bangalore: At least 20 workers were injured and two trapped yesterday when an eight-storey apartment building that was under construction developed cracks and...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai inspects a guard of honour during Independence Day celebrations at the Defence Ministry compound in Kabul yesterday.
Khalid Yousaf examining a vehicle at his factory in Karachi. KARACHI: As an unprecedented wave of killings and kidnappings hits Karachi, the Pakistani...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday called for dialogue with extremists to end bloodshed that has left thousands dead in the country...
Washington: US Secretary of State John Kerry renewed his country’s commitment to assisting Afghanistan to be a strong and sovereign country in which...
TACOMA: The military judge in the court-martial of a US soldier who pleaded guilty in June to the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians...
PESHAWAR: Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa yesterday unveiled Right to Information Ordinance (RTIO). The ordinance makes it binding upon the government to...
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sacked his attorney general after the chief law officer held an unsanctioned meeting with Taliban peace negotiators...
People stand in a flooded street after heavy rainfalls hit Fushun, Liaoning province China on Sunday. Devastating floods at opposite ends of China...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police said they killed five suspected gang members in a shootout early yesterday and arrested 200 people in a crackdown...
Smoke is rising from the 1,117-metres Mount Sakurajima at Kagoshima city in Japan’s southern island of Kyushu. The volcano erupted an ash plume...
JAKARTA: Indonesian security forces yesterday hunted for a group of inmates who escaped from an overcrowded jail on Sumatra island, in the latest...
SEOUL: South Korea launched a military drill yesterday with the United States against a simulated North Korean invasion, even as a recent easing...
BEIJING: A Chinese forensic expert who questioned the murder conviction of top politician Bo Xilai’s wife has resigned one of her positions, state...
BERLIN: Germany yesterday blasted a ruling by a Chinese court to uphold an 11-year prison sentence handed to the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel...
YANGON: “Big Zaw” has known he was different since a teenage growth spurt sent him soaring above his neighbours in a remote Myanmar...