HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (front R) stands next to his son HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad...
HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (front R) stands next to his son HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad...
US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the latter’s residence in New Delhi yesterday. US Vice President...
Srinagar: Eight soldiers were killed and 13 others injured yesterday when two separatist guerrillas attacked an army convoy here with automatic weapons and...
Kochi: Former Kerala transport minister and opposition legislator Jose Thettayil, accused by a woman of sexually exploiting her, stayed away from the assembly...
Patna: The next time you visit a five-star hotel in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata or Bangalore and order a mushroom dish, chances are you...
Mumbai: The rupee hit a new record closing low of 59.68 against the dollar yesterday as foreign investors pulled money from debt as...
Demonstrators throw stones and shout slogans after burning a truck, believed to be owned by foreigners, during an anti-government protest in Kabul yesterday....
ISLAMABAD: The former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, should be tried for high treason, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said yesterday, raising the prospect of...
London: Counter-terrorism police investigating the murder in London of a prominent Pakistani politician in September 2010 have arrested a 52-year-old man at Heathrow...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday suspended expeditions on its second-highest peak, evacuating climbers from Nanga Parbat after nine foreign tourists and a local guide were...
ISLAMABAD: A total of 138 out of 324 members of the new National Assembly (the lower house) of Pakistan, including four ministers, either...
KABUL: US envoy James Dobbins arrived in Afghanistan yesterday for talks with President Hamid Karzai, as the US worked to put peace efforts...
A boy throws a flip-flop towards his friend as they play on the waterlogged streets of Bashantapur Durbar Square, during rain in Kathmandu...
SINGAPORE: Indonesia stepped up aerial operations yesterday to extinguish forest fires raging on Sumatra island as Malaysia remained smothered by smog and Singapore...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc swept to victory in a weekend Tokyo election, a sign it’s on track for a...
ZAMBOANGA: Islamist militants kidnapped two Filipina Muslim film-makers in the southern Philippines as they were working on a movie about the area’s impoverished...
DHAKA: A Bangladesh war crimes court yesterday ordered a British-based Muslim leader and a US citizen to be tried in absentia for the...
TAIPEI: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who has accused New York University of bowing to Chinese pressure to ask him to leave, refused...