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North Korea restores hotline 04 Jul 2013 - 01:57 am

SEOUL: North Korea yesterday restored its official hotline with South Korea and announced it would let the South’s businessmen visit a shuttered joint...

Six cops die in check-post attack 04 Jul 2013 - 01:55 am

Security personnel inspect a checkpoint following an overnight attack by militants at Jina Kor, some 40km southeast of Peshawar and close to the...

Sharif arrives in China 04 Jul 2013 - 01:55 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday left for China on his first foreign tour, eyeing high-impact Chinese infrastructure projects as an answer...

Kabul, Islamabad spar as drone attacks kill 18 04 Jul 2013 - 01:53 am

ISLAMABAD: Kabul and Islamabad traded insults over the war with the Taliban yesterday, plunging their frosty relations to a new low at a...

Pakistan halts Iran gas pipeline project 04 Jul 2013 - 01:53 am

ISLAMABAD: The PML-N government has seemingly put the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project on the backburner by deciding to use the funds generated through...

Sharif to promote judge who gave him life term 04 Jul 2013 - 01:53 am

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wants a former judge who sentenced him to life imprisonment in a plane hijacking case in 2000 to...

ADB alert on water scarcity 04 Jul 2013 - 01:53 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is on the verge of being classified as a “water scarce” country, the Asian Development Bank has warned. Pakistan, which has...

Khan to visit his kids in UK 04 Jul 2013 - 01:34 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan is leaving for London next week for a 14-day stay with his children, it was learnt yesterday....

Ganges calling 04 Jul 2013 - 01:32 am

Children stand next to a labourer working on the banks of river Ganges as they are silhouetted against the setting sun in Allahabad...

Massive food scheme for poor okayed 04 Jul 2013 - 01:31 am

NEW DELHI: The government yesterday approved a vast food welfare programme targeting the nation’s poor as it sought to increase its popularity before...

Kedarnath Valley to be fumigated 04 Jul 2013 - 01:31 am

Dehradun: As the rotten smell of decomposed bodies, animal carcasses and floating wood makes it difficult for rescuers to remove the dead buried...

Baby boy for Shah Rukh Khan amid controversy 04 Jul 2013 - 01:29 am

MUMBAI: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan became a father for the third time at the end of May, Mumbai officials said yesterday, amid...

Mega-seizure worth only Rs10 crore 04 Jul 2013 - 01:20 am

Mumbai: In an anti-climax, the Income Tax department yesterday claimed that it had recovered only Rs10 crore (Rs100m) in its much-hyped seizure from...

Lakme Fashion Week casting call 04 Jul 2013 - 01:19 am

Models wait for their turn while auditioning at the Lakme Fashion Week casting call in Mumbai yesterday. The Winter/Festive 2013 is scheduled from...

Antony leaves for China today 04 Jul 2013 - 01:19 am

New Delhi: Defence Min-ister A K Antony will leave today on a four-day official visit to China. Discussions on the Sino-Indian border and...

December 16 rape: Bus owner to testify 04 Jul 2013 - 01:18 am

New Delhi: A Delhi court hearing the December 16, 2012, gang-rape case yesterday directed the owner of the bus in which the 23-year-old...

Steps proposed to insulate CBI from politics 04 Jul 2013 - 01:18 am

New Delhi: The appointment of the CBI director by a collegium that includes the prime minister is among the steps taken by the...

Kerala court denies bail to Chandy’s former staffer 04 Jul 2013 - 01:18 am

Thiruvananthapuram: A court in Kerala’s district headquarters town of Patha-namthitta dismissed the bail plea of Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s former staffer who was...