Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the return of the remains of executed...
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the return of the remains of executed...
Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said here yesterday that he would meet central ministers and MPs from the state in New Delhi...
New Delhi: The government yesterday came out in defence of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien in the 1996 Suryanelli rape case...
A robot pushing a tray with dishes at a robot-themed restaurant in Harbin, China, yesterday. The outlet opened in June 2012 and has...
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino warned a sultan yesterday that he would face the “full force of the law” unless he withdrew his...
TOKYO: Japan’s fisheries minister said yesterday the country will not stop hunting whales, despite fierce criticism from other countries and clashes at sea...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s top court yesterday began a hearing to decide if the hundreds of thousands of domestic workers who make a...
GENEVA: Japan and the EU want the UN to launch an in-depth probe into rights abuses in North Korea, Japan’s vice foreign minister...
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan security forces continue to use rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected Tamil rebels nearly four years...
TOKYO: Two US sailors yesterday admitted raping a Japanese woman in Okinawa last October, reports said, in a case that generated anti-US anger...
MANILA: Forty days after it ran aground, the salvors who will remove the USS Guardian from the Tubbataha Reef will begin cutting the...
US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a news conference at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany....
ROME: Italy was at an impasse yesterday after an election seen as crucial for the eurozone failed to produce a clear winner and...
LONDON: Former British prime minister Tony Blair admitted yesterday that the situation in Iraq is “not nearly” what he hoped it would be...
WASHINGTON: The US Senate Finance Committee yesterday voted yesterday to back President Barack Obama’s nominee Jack Lew as Treasury secretary despite qualms about...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI will be known as “Pope Emeritus” and can continue to wear the white papal cassock after he steps...
PARIS: Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared in a Paris court yesterday to try to ban a graphic new book by author...
Security personnel guard the wreckage of the hot air balloon that crashed in Luxor, yesterday. LUXOR, Egypt: At least 19 people, most of...