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Boat race in Kashmir 12 May 2013 - 04:18 am

Kashmiri boatmen row traditional shikaras during a race on Dal Lake in Srinagar, yesterday. Some 100 shikaras participated in the race organised to...

China border deal planned, says Khurshid 12 May 2013 - 04:17 am

NEW DELHI: India said yesterday it was working with China on a new border defence cooperation agreement as the neighbours seek to repair...

Girl was killed for refusing marriage: Police 12 May 2013 - 04:17 am

New Delhi: Delhi Police said yesterday that the 22-year-old Subhash shot dead a class 12 girl on Friday as she had spurned his...

The NR Eye: Can global movement of workers be stopped? 12 May 2013 - 04:16 am

by Moiz Mannan The initiatives of various Gulf countries for nationalising their workforces may have created a flutter in high labour exporting countries...

Chit fund chief has Rs7.5bn assets 12 May 2013 - 04:16 am

Kolkata: Police have unearthed property worth Rs7.5bn so far by quizzing chit fund-aided Saradha Group’s arrested promoter Sudipa Sen and his top aides,...

Bengal govt ready to take poll panel row to apex court 12 May 2013 - 04:16 am

Kolkata: Further hardening its stand on the Calcutta High Court verdict upholding the primacy of the State Election Commission in holding the panchayat...

Khan’s party to rule troubled province 12 May 2013 - 04:14 am

People line up to cast their ballots while showing their identification cards at a polling station in Rawalpindi, Punjab province, yesterday. A man...

The lion’s comeback 12 May 2013 - 04:14 am

ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif, the opposition leader set to become Pakistani prime minister for a historic third term, is a millionaire steel tycoon, considered...

Lantern march 12 May 2013 - 04:13 am

South Korean Buddhists march with lanterns during the Lotus Lantern Festival to celebrate the upcoming birthday of the Buddha, which falls on May...

Bangladeshi survivor ‘drank rainwater’ 12 May 2013 - 04:12 am

Reshma, who survived seventeen days after an eight-storey building collapsed, resting in Savar Cantonment Hospital on the outskirts of Dhaka yesterday. SAVAR: Bangladeshi...

Taipei mulls sanctions against Manila 12 May 2013 - 04:11 am

TAIPEI: President Ma Ying-jeou said yesterday Taiwan would consider sanctions against the Philippines amid widespread public outrage at Manila over the shooting of...

Myanmar on cyclone alert 12 May 2013 - 04:11 am

YANGON: Myanmar’s authorities were on alert yesterday as a cyclone threatened to hit the west of the country where around 140,000 people displaced...

Malaysian vote was ‘mother of all frauds’: Anwar 12 May 2013 - 04:11 am

Batu Kawan: Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim yesterday called Malaysia’s recent elections “the mother of all frauds” as he kept up the pressure over...

Singapore arrests 21 Malaysians 12 May 2013 - 04:11 am

Singapore: Twenty-one Malaysians were arrested in Singapore yesterday for staging an illegal protest following the disputed elections in their homeland, the city-state’s police...

Sri Lanka frees Muslim leader 12 May 2013 - 04:10 am

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka freed an opposition Muslim political leader from police custody without charge after detaining him earlier in the week under a...

Mine blast kills 27 in China 12 May 2013 - 04:10 am

BEIJING: An accidental explosion at a coal mine in southwest China killed 27 miners yesterday, state media said. A total of 81 miners...

Obama honours Napo winners 12 May 2013 - 04:10 am

US President Barack Obama speaks during an event honouring the 2013 National Association of Police Organisations (Napo) TOP COPS award winners in the...

Bulgaria seizes illegal ballots on eve of vote 12 May 2013 - 04:09 am

SOFIA: Bulgaria has seized 350,000 illegal ballot papers, prosecutors said yesterday, sparking opposition rage on the eve of a snap election expected to...