COLOMBO: Sri Lanka freed an opposition Muslim political leader from jail without charge after detaining him earlier in the week under a tough...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka freed an opposition Muslim political leader from jail without charge after detaining him earlier in the week under a tough...
TIKRIT, Iraq: A suicide bomber targeted the home of a senior Iraqi intelligence officer north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing three people, while...
NEW DELHI: India's opposition demanded Saturday the resignation of Congress Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, raising the stakes after forcing the exit of two...
ISTANBUL: Egypt's new planning minister said on Saturday he was confident the country would reach a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
An image grab taken from Egyptian state TV shows ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak sitting behind bars during his retrial at the Police...
Relatives of Hung Shih-cheng, a crew member of Taiwan's fishing boat "Guang Ta Hsin 28" react next to his body bag (centre L)...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) stands next to China's Premier Li Keqiang during an official welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of...
MUSCAT: The Sultanate of Oman will host the Gulf Industries Fair on June 16th. The three-day event aims at promoting the gulf industrial...
Pakistani election presiding officers and their staff sit with election materials at the distribution point in Rawalpindi,yesterday. AFP photo/Farooq Naeem MIRANSHAH, Pakistan: Women...
TEHRAN, Iran: A strong earthquake of 6.2 magnitude hit southern Iran early Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, with local media reporting of...
KARACHI: A bomb blast targeting an election candidate wounded at least 12 people in Pakistan's commercial hub of Karachi as historic elections got...
by Qassim Rahmatullah With temperatures beginning to rise, there is still room for some activities to beat the summer heat. Yesterday, hundreds of...
Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah with jubilant supporters after he was appointed as the new chief minister of Karnataka yesterday. Bangalore: Karnataka Governor...
New Delhi: Within hours of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last evening, the UPA government asked two tainted cabinet...
Beijing: China-India relations have “strategic significance” and “global impact” as both are large developing countries and emerging markets, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told...
NEW DELHI: India’s highest court yesterday rejected a plea by Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt to review his conviction and five-year jail term for...
New Delhi: Diesel prices will increase by 90 paise per litre plus taxes from today, the country’s largest oil marketing firm, Indian Oil...
Kolkata: In a telling blow to the beleaguered Mamata Banerjee government, the Calcutta High Court yesterday ordered three-phase panchayat (rural body) polls in...
