TOKYO: Tokyo stocks eased 0.47 percent Friday on profit-taking, although losses were limited by the weak yen and another record close on Wall...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks eased 0.47 percent Friday on profit-taking, although losses were limited by the weak yen and another record close on Wall...
SINGAPORE: Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter has awarded up to 400,000 tonnes of cracked fuel oil from its joint venture refinery...
SEOUL: "Gangnam Style" star Psy unveiled Friday the follow-up to his global hit with another catchy dance tune infused with his signature self-mocking...
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak with students of an Indian school, at the Chancellery in Berlin, yesterday. BERLIN:...
Berlin: The Indian government does not intend to cut oil imports from Iran due to US-backed sanctions and the recent decline in purchases...
New Delhi: Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, facing re-investigation in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, yesterday said there was nothing against him as yet...
New Delhi: Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta, two of the accused in the December 16, 2012, gang rape, yesterday told a Delhi court...
Kolkata: Describing vandalism in Presidency University allegedly by its activists as a “trivial” matter, the Trinamool Congress yesterday castigated the media for not...
Washington: Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan appears set to become the first South Asian judge in the prestigious US Court of Appeals...
Kolkata: Legendary revolutionary Binod Bihari Chowdhury, the sole surviving raider of the Chittagong armoury in 1930, an event that shook the British Raj,...
New Delhi: The Right to Education (RTE) Act has ensured that the education budget in most states has doubled, and 11 million more...
Relatives mourn Fakhrul Islam, 46, who was a candidate for the secular Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), in Hyderabad, yesterday. KARACHI: A Pakistani grocer...
ISLAMABAD: A missing link in the ADB’s analysis of political failures in Pakistan is the role of bureaucrats in running the affairs of...
PESHAWAR: Fifteen militants and one soldier were killed yesterday when the Pakistani military mounted another operation in a week of fighting designed to...
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Pakistani Prime Minister Hazar Khoso has banned foreign visits of federal secretaries of divisions and heads of departments and autonomous bodies...
ISLAMABAD: Women in Pakistan are nearly 50 percent of the country’s population, but only 43.5 percent are registered voters, while the situation is...
KARACHI: While energy crisis has become part of life in Pakistan, power shortfall is expected to be worsen during the summer months owing...
Japan’s Interchange Association Chairman Mitsuo Ohashi (left) with Taiwan’s Association of East Asian Relations Chairman Liao Liao-yi after the signing of an agreement...