Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday tried to defend a party MP who headed the media operations of the chit fund-funded...
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday tried to defend a party MP who headed the media operations of the chit fund-funded...
Bangalore: BJP leader L K Advani had taken money from erstwhile Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa to allow him to remain in...
Chennai: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday called for a third front at the national level as the Congress and the Bharatiya...
Thiruvananthapuram: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit here has already kicked up a row in Kerala, but it could become more “colourful”...
New Delhi: Justice J S Verma, who headed the panel which suggested changes to the anti-rape laws in the aftermath of the December...
New Delhi: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde yesterday said there was a need to strengthen the intelligence set-up of states and quickly put in...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will pronounce on Thursday its order on the Italian government’s plea against the invoking of a stringent act...
New Delhi: Six activists of the SFI were arrested yesterday for heckling West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and state Finance Minister Amit...
A man sells weapons in Kabul, yesterday. PULI ALAM: Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents have seized 11 civilians including eight Turks after their helicopter was...
Schoolgirls who fell ill after smelling gas at their school receive treatment at a hospital in Takhar province, Afghanistan. TALUQAN: As many as...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s caretaker government yesterday refused to put former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason, telling the Supreme Court that it...
LAHORE: Some 200,000 members of Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community will boycott next month’s election in protest at their treatment by the authorities. Ahmadis,...
BRUSSELS/KABUL: US Secretary of State John Kerry will host talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and senior Pakistan officials in Brussels tomorrow, officials...
LAHORE: A Pakistani court yesterday allowed former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to contest May 11 polls, striking down a disqualification order by...
US General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (right), and Fang Fenghui, chief of the People’s Liberation Army general staff,...
LUXEMBOURG: EU foreign ministers agreed yesterday to lift the last of the bloc’s trade, economic and individual sanctions against Myanmar, hailing “a new...
SEOUL: South Korea yesterday shelved a proposed trip by Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se to Tokyo in protest at visits by Japanese cabinet ministers...
MANILA: Philippine communist rebels warned politicians yesterday to seek their permission before campaigning in the insurgents’ strongholds following an ambush that wounded a...