New Delhi: Nearly 5,000 people are still missing in Kedarnath in Uttarakhand following the devastating floods and are presumed dead, ActionAid said yesterday....
New Delhi: Nearly 5,000 people are still missing in Kedarnath in Uttarakhand following the devastating floods and are presumed dead, ActionAid said yesterday....
Kolkata: Cutting across age and social status, members of civil society, rights groups and various women’s fora took to the city streets yesterday...
MIAMI: The grandson of legendary French ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau is planning a 31-day underwater mission in Florida later this year, a statement...
The 12th century Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo, which was destroyed in the heavy shelling in April. Damascus: All six of Syria’s world heritage...
WASHINGTON:US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has expressed regret to an Indian-born college professor for jokingly asking, “you’re not a member of the Taliban,...
Tashkent: Five pop acts in Uzbekistan have been banned from performing live for failing to sing songs that “praise the motherland”. The performers...
Security officials, rescue workers and members of the media gather at the mosque attacked by a suicide bomber in Peshawar yesterday. PESHAWAR: A...
ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has decided to let the jailed dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf face Article 6 of the constitution for...
ISLAMABAD: Nearly 150 senior government officials in the Sindh province face demotions or the possibility of being reverted to their parent bodies. Bulk...
KARACHI: The PML-N government plans to set up a 600MW coal-fired power plant, sources said yesterday. An announcement will be made shortly. Sources...
PESHAWAR: Continued presence of millions of Afghan refugees in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has brought its health infrastructure under pressure. As...
United Nations: A Chinese diplomat has stressed the importance of stable security for the transition process in Afghanistan, urging all parties to protect...
Members of the honour guard from the South Korean armed forces lead an annual parade in Chuncheon, northeast of Seoul, yesterday. It commemorated...
JAKARTA: Indonesia yesterday dispatched helicopters to create artificial rain in a desperate bid to fight raging fires that have choked Singapore, as smog...
YANGON: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has criticised a proposal by nationalist monks to restrict marriages between Buddhist women and men...
BEIJING: China condemned yesterday what it called the “illegal occupation” of a disputed coral reef by the Philippines, and vowed to protect its...
WASHINGTON: US efforts to forge a “21st Century” trade agreement with Vietnam and 10 other countries in the Asia Pacific region are running...
TOKYO: Japan’s tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear complex has suffered another radioactive water leak, its operator said yesterday the latest in a series of incidents...
