NEW DELHI: The government said yesterday it had doubled natural gas prices to stimulate investment and reverse a decline in domestic production which...
NEW DELHI: The government said yesterday it had doubled natural gas prices to stimulate investment and reverse a decline in domestic production which...
New Delhi: Petrol prices were to go up by Rs.1.82 per litre, excluding taxes, from midnight due to the fall in the value...
New Delhi: State-owned Airports Authority of India will develop 50 new low-cost airports across 11 states. According to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO),...
New Delhi: Upholding the primacy of the West Bengal State Election Commission (SEC), the Supreme Court yesterday directed it to conduct the panchayat...
New Delhi: With around 3,600 Indians having returned from Kuwait this year, India yesterday said it had asked the Gulf country’s government to...
New Delhi: The coal sector in India will now have a regulator that will prescribe principles for price determination of the fuel, adjudicate...
A general view of the illuminated shrine of Sufi Saint Hazrat Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan Sharif, Pakistan, during the early hours yesterday.
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly (the lower house) are divided over the high treason trial of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf, as...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India affirmed yesterday that relations between the two countries have improved with Islamabad saying that forging ‘close ties’ was an...
KARACHI: Pakistan ranks second with the most out-of-school children in the world with only Nigeria ahead of it, said a child rights body...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China are set to sign agreements to boost investments and build infrastructure during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Beijing,...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan remains engaged with the Taliban to put the Doha process back on track after the controversial opening of their office that...
Islamabad: British Prime Minister David Cameron will arrive in Islamabad today on a two-day official visit. He is scheduled to meet President Asif...
Indonesian marines take a break for prayers as they combat a fire in Peatland forest in Dumai Riau province on Sumatra island yesterday,
BEIJING: More than two million Tibetans in China have been forced to change homes or relocate in a government-sponsored programme that is damaging...
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court has sentenced nine junior opposition politicians to life in prison for murdering a journalist who had published reports on...
KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysian groups yesterday slammed an Islamic law enabling one parent to give consent for the religious conversion of a child,...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has cut off long-time trade benefits for Bangladesh in a mostly symbolic response to conditions in the country’s garment...