New Delhi: In a bid for greater transparency and accountability in the government’s delivery systems for citizens, the union cabinet yesterday approved a...
New Delhi: In a bid for greater transparency and accountability in the government’s delivery systems for citizens, the union cabinet yesterday approved a...
New Delhi: The UPA government is committed to getting the parliamentary nod for the anti-rape ordinance by March 22, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal...
NEW DELHI: Political parties failed yesterday to agree on how to compensate farmers for land acquired for infrastructure and industrial projects, dashing market...
New Delhi: Overworked and stressed-out school students, burning the midnight oil to pass the board exams with flying colours, can benefit from these...
Lucknow: The CBI yesterday named former Uttar Pradesh minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya as an accused in the murder of deputy...
Thiruvananthapuram: Minister for Forest, Sports and Cinema K B Ganesh Kumar has landed in fresh trouble after his wife Yamini Thankachy complained against...
Malaysian Premier Najib Razak (right) meets soldiers at Felda Sahabat near Lahad Datu, on Borneo Island in Malaysia’s Sabah state yesterday. Felda sahabat:...
BEIJING: China has delayed the introduction of genetically-modified rice and corn as it tries to head off public fears, leading government scientists said...
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS: North Korea threatened the US yesterday with a pre-emptive nuclear strike, raising the level of rhetoric just before the UN Security...
YANGON: At a small and peaceful clinic on the outskirts of Yangon, 20 volunteers tend to 300 HIV patients abandoned by a health...
TOKYO: In the dark months after a catastrophic tsunami smashed into Japan, killing almost 19,000 people and sparking a nuclear disaster, hopes for...
KATHMANDU: The makers of a film depicting torture by Nepal’s army accused the government of censorship yesterday after they had to cancel the...
A handout by Armed Forces of the Philippines-Public Information Office shows a contingent of Philippine troops standing at attention during a ceremony prior...
MANILA: A crisis management committee activated by President Aquino when the Sabah stand-off began has drawn up contingency plans in case of forced...
Laguna: Reporter Jun Baldecantos of the tabloid People’s Tonight had just come from the school of his four-year-old child in Bacoor City, Cavite...
MANILA: To avoid disenfranchisement of overseas Filipinos this coming election, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has decided to reinstate more than 230,000 Filipinos...
MANILA: With its glistening white, powdery sand, the Philippines’ Boracay Island has been named best beach in Asia for 2013. Participants in a...
Manila: With the start of campaign for local posts three weeks away, police should step up efforts to neutralise private armies and political...
