New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday asked the poll panel to frame guidelines to discourage political parties from promising freebies in their election...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday asked the poll panel to frame guidelines to discourage political parties from promising freebies in their election...
New Delhi: The CBI yesterday sought to justify its decision to make Pawan Kumar Bansal a witness in the alleged Rs100m cash-for-post railway...
Mumbai: Mumbai police have nabbed bookie master Shoban Mehta alias Shoban Kalachowki in connection with the IPL betting and match fixing scam. According...
Supporters of Pakistan’s outlawed Islamic hardline group, Jamaat ud Dawa, shout anti-US slogans during a protest in Lahore against drone attacks in the...
BEIJING: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday told his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang their countries’ relationship was “sweeter than honey”, during a visit...
KANDAHAR: A suicide bomber killed 12 policemen in Afghanistan yesterday when he blew himself up inside a police station, officials said. Another suicide...
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban vowed yesterday to continue attacks over Ramadan, rejecting as a fake an insurgent email promising a ‘halt’ in violence...
ISLAMABAD: A delegation led by Standard Chartered (UK) Group CEO Peter Sands met Finance Minister Ishaq Dar yesterday and discussed the bank’s proposal...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has banned an Indian film about the love affair of a Muslim-Hindu couple on the grounds that it could offend viewers...
ISLAMABAD: The US recognises the importance of its relationship with Pakistan and is not seeking to downgrade ties, says the State Department. At...
Chinese navy sailors moor the destroyer Shenyang of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy upon its arrival in Vladivostok, Russia, yesterday. Seven Chinese...
BEIJING: China is ready to discuss strengthening cyber security with United States officials at a high-level forum next week and wants Washington to...
SYDNEY: A people-smuggling boat carrying about 80 asylum-seekers was in distress and reportedly taking on water in seas south of Indonesia, Australian officials...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will hold provincial elections in the former northern war zone in September for the first time in 25 years, officials...
GENEVA: UN experts tasked with probing human rights violations in North Korea said yesterday Pyongyang has refused to cooperate with the investigation, but...
HONG KONG: A “charlatan” who claimed to be the lover of a late Hong Kong billionaire was jailed yesterday for 12 years after...
BEIJING: Chinese authorities imposed tight control in the capital of Xinjiang yesterday, the fourth anniversary of ethnic rioting which killed around 200 people,...
KUALA LUMPUR: The 9,101 Malaysian students in Egypt are safe and are not involved in the turmoil in that country. A spokesman at...
