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Exchange Rates in Qatar 01 May 2013 - 09:14 am

Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Wednesday Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency Buying...

Hong Kong seizes 113 smuggled ivory tusks 01 May 2013 - 08:31 am

HONG KONG: Hong Kong customs officers have seized 113 ivory tusks worth nearly $400,000 on the Chinese ivory market, officials said on Wednesday. ...

Japan's Mt. Fuji to get World Heritage stamp 01 May 2013 - 08:17 am

TOKYO: Japan's Mount Fuji will likely be added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites next month after an influential advisory panel...

Korean rapper Psy's story immortalized in comic book 01 May 2013 - 07:46 am

SEOUL: The story of South Korean rap sensation Psy's ascent to global stardom with his megahit "Gangnam Style" has now been immortalized in...

Yash Chopra honoured 01 May 2013 - 04:37 am

Former president Pratibha Patil (centre) talks with Pamela Chopra (left), wife of deceased film director Yash Chopra, while honouring him, as actor Hrithik...

Sarabjit Singh declared clinically dead 01 May 2013 - 04:37 am

Amritsar/Lahore: The distraught family of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh (pictured), who was brutally assaulted in a Lahore jail last week, is...

SC ticks off govt for interfering in CBI probe 01 May 2013 - 04:37 am

New Delhi: From the Supreme Court and the opposition, it was an embarrassing cleft-stick of censure for the Manmohan Singh government yesterday. While...

Bengal to close 73 firms involved in ponzi schemes 01 May 2013 - 04:37 am

Kolkata: The West Bengal government yesterday announced it would shut down, by today, 73 companies against which the central government has received complaints...

Khurshid rejects China row criticism 01 May 2013 - 04:34 am

Right-wing Hindu activists remove a police barricade during a protest against the incursion by Chinese troops inside Indian territory, in New Delhi, yesterday. ...

Sajjan Kumar acquitted in Sikh riots case 01 May 2013 - 04:33 am

New Delhi: A Delhi court yesterday acquitted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar (pictured) in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. As noisy...

Four-year-old rape victim dies in Nagpur 01 May 2013 - 04:33 am

MUMBAI: A four-year-old Indian girl has died in hospital nearly two weeks after she was raped and found unconscious at a farm, hospital...

6-year-old raped in Rajasthan 01 May 2013 - 04:33 am

Jaipur: A man was arrested in Rajasthan’s Karauli district yesterday for raping a six-year-old girl during a wedding function, said police. The girl...

BJP to boycott meetings called by Meira Kumar 01 May 2013 - 04:33 am

New Delhi: Accusing Congress President Sonia Gandhi of inciting MPs for disrupting her speech, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj...

Musharraf barred from polls for life 01 May 2013 - 04:30 am

Supporters dance with flags featuring an image of Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, and a picture of a tiger, which...

Candidate killed in exchange of fire 01 May 2013 - 04:30 am

QUETTA: A Pakistani election candidate was shot dead yesterday in an exchange of fire with security forces at a checkpoint in southwestern Baluchistan...

Kayani assures elections on time 01 May 2013 - 04:30 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief said yesterday that general elections scheduled for May would be held on time and help cement democracy in a...

Peace, energy crisis top manifestos of parties 01 May 2013 - 04:29 am

PESHAWAR: Catchy slogans and promises of resolving the lingering energy crisis and restoration of peace top the manifestos of almost all major political...

Attacks kill three Nato troops, nine Afghans 01 May 2013 - 04:29 am

KABUL: Roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan killed three Nato service members and nine Afghans yesterday, officials said, clear evidence that the insurgents’ annual...