DHAKA: Only one in 10 garment factory buildings inspected by engineers from a top Bangladesh university were structurally sound, underlining the scale of...
DHAKA: Only one in 10 garment factory buildings inspected by engineers from a top Bangladesh university were structurally sound, underlining the scale of...
TAIPEI: Acclaimed Taiwanese director Doze Niu faces prosecution for allegedly using false papers to take a Chinese cinematographer onto a Taiwanese naval base...
Schoolboys push their bicycles through a flooded road after heavy monsoon rains in Ahmedabad yesterday.
New Delhi: India yesterday raised with China the statement of a Chinese general warning India against stirring up “new trouble” on the border...
Chennai: The Reserve Bank of India does not have any target for the rupee’s level but will use all instruments it has to...
NEW DELHI: India’s ruling party said yesterday a vast new food scheme for the poor was a “game-changer” to fight endemic malnutrition, but...
Kolkata: West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee government yesterday suffered a double whammy in the Calcutta High Court, which disapproved of her time frame for...
New Delhi: The BJP parliamentary board yesterday discussed steps to launch an “aggressive” campaign against the UPA government for the coming assembly and...
Srinagar: Clashes broke out last evening between locals and security forces at Baltal base camp of Amarnath Yatra in north Kashmir after CRPF...
New Delhi: As 92,000 Indians in Saudi Arabia have been given Emergency Certificates to enable them return home over the kingdom’s Nitaqat work...
BEIJING: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday during his first foreign visit since his May election, looking to...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s new government has ended a moratorium on executions, an official said yestrerday, as Amnesty International raised concerns about a “shocking and...
ISLAMABAD: The Obama administration has requested $1.16bn for aid to Pakistan in the 2014 financial year — almost half of the $2.6bn it...
KANDAHAR: A bomb attack killed four girls attending an Afghan wedding, officials said yesterday, blaming the attack on Taliban rebels intending to target...
KANDAHAR: Gunmen yesterday shot dead one of the most high-profile female police officers in Afghanistan, underlining the threat to women who take on...
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf is still a serving general and lives in the presidency, according to National Database and Registration...
A band performs during the United States Independence Day celebrations organised by the American Chamber of Commerce at Doha Rugby Club yesterday.
Tents at the Jarablus refugee camp on Syria’s northern border. Doha: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) is working to improve the living conditions of...
