DHAKA: Bangladesh has shut down 18 garment plants in an attempt to prevent a repeat of last month’s factory collapse outside Dhaka, where...
DHAKA: Bangladesh has shut down 18 garment plants in an attempt to prevent a repeat of last month’s factory collapse outside Dhaka, where...
MANILA: Philippine tour guide Roel Llarena recalled yesterday how a mountain hike turned into a nightmare when the volcano he was climbing began...
WASHINGTON: South Korea’s president yesterday proposed an international park on the tense border with North Korea as part of a region-wide peace initiative...
MANILA: The Philippines yesterday called on the United Nations Security Council to ensure the safety of peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, following the...
BANGKOK: Hackers infiltrated the website of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s office yesterday, posting offensive comments in the latest attack on her character. ...
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif is escorted by his security personnel as he waves to supporters while he leaves after an election...
PESHAWAR: Two people were killed and 27 wounded yesterday when a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-packed car into a barrier outside a police...
LAHORE: Pakistan’s main parties yesterday suspended campaigning for Saturday’s general election in honour of Imran Khan, who is in hospital with head and...
KABUL: Afghanistan’s education minister has threatened to punish schoolgirls who claim to suffer from alleged “poisonings” officials believe are temporary psychological illnesses. Scores...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yesterday protested to Afghanistan after five Frontier Constabulary soldiers were injured on Monday by firing from Afghan posts and President Karzai...
KINSHASA: Gunmen killed a Pakistani peacekeeper in an ambush on a UN convoy in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman for the...
Volunteers and police personnel try to reach victims inside a partially submerged bus that tumbled into the Beas river in Himachal Pradesh yesterday. ...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will today pronounce its verdict on two petitions seeking a CBI probe into the death of a...
New Delhi: Four people, including two juveniles, were apprehended for their involvement in shooting at a middle-aged couple here, police said yesterday. Yogesh,...
ADEN: Armed tribesmen briefly held two Indian employees of the international Red Cross yesterday in south Yemen, where two kidnapped Egyptians remained in...
ISTANBUL: Turkey is in talks with the London Stock Exchange and Nasdaq about possible strategic partnerships for its stock exchange in Istanbul, Deputy...
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates, a major financial hub in the Middle East, has revoked the licences of two money exchange companies...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has 13 cases of a new strain of coronavirus that has emerged from the Gulf, has killed seven people in...
