New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said the UPA government rejects the Tamil Nadu assembly resolution calling on it to treat...
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has said the UPA government rejects the Tamil Nadu assembly resolution calling on it to treat...
Bhubaneswar: At least 14 people were killed in separate accidents during Holi in Odisha, police said yesterday, a day after the festival of...
MUMBAI: An explosion at a small factory in a Mumbai slum yesterday killed five people and injured three others when the wall of...
Pope Francis prays during the Celebration of the Lord’s Passion in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, yesterday. The Pope presided over his...
ROME: Italy remained in political deadlock yesterday after a new round of talks led by President Giorgio Napolitano failed to break the stalemate...
LONDON: British actor Richard Griffiths (pictured), best known for his roles as Harry Potter’s uncle and in the cult film Withnail & I,...
The Solar Impulse solar plane is seen at the Nasa Ames Research Centre in Mountain View, California. Weather conditions permitting, the Solar Impulse...
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook fueled fresh talk yesterday about its own mobile phone after the leading social network scheduled a press announcement for next...
LONDON: Former British minister Andrew Mitchell is suing Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun newspaper over a report which claimed he called police officers “plebs”...
SARAJEVO: A Montenegrin warlord was jailed for 45 years yesterday for the murder, rape and torture of non-Serb civilians in Sarajevo in the...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday restored an honorary Hero of Labour title that was first awarded in the Lenin era to workers...
Israeli soldiers try to push a foreign demonstrator into a vehicle during a protest commemorating the deaths in 1976 of Arab-Israelis on “Land...
BAGHDAD: A series of car bombs near Shia mosques targeting worshippers attending weekly prayers killed at least 18 people yesterday, the latest in...
ANKARA: Turkish and Israeli officials will meet on April 12 for breakthrough talks over compensation for a deadly 2010 flotilla raid, for which...
TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday it is hopeful “forward movement” continues during talks with major world powers over its controversial nuclear drive, the state...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels have seized a key town on a main highway between Damascus and the south in their latest advance in Daraa...
DUBAI: Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group Al Wefaq has warned of fresh protests across the Sunni-ruled kingdom unless a national dialogue with the...
CAIRO: Clashes broke out yesterday in Cairo and Egypt’s second city Alexandria between opponents and supporters of Islamist President Mohammed Mursi, injuring 10...