TOKYO: Tokyo shares dropped 2.26 percent Tuesday as an inconclusive Italian election result fuelled fresh concerns over eurozone instability, while profit-taking also dragged...
TOKYO: Tokyo shares dropped 2.26 percent Tuesday as an inconclusive Italian election result fuelled fresh concerns over eurozone instability, while profit-taking also dragged...
CAIRO: A hot air balloon crashed near the Egyptian town of Luxor on Tuesday, killing 19 tourists who were aboard, a spokesman for...
DUBAI: Etihad Rail, the developer of a $11 billion railway network in the United Arab Emirates, secured a $1.28 billion five-year project financing...
ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Nahayan bin Mubarak al-Nahayan has cancelled a tentative agreement with a Pakistani businessman that envisioned spending $45...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong's top court on Tuesday began hearing a challenge to the right of abode law in a long-running case that...
KATHMANDU: The Asian Development Bank said Tuesday it had approved a $150-million loan for a giant hydropower plant to ease Nepal's chronic electricity...
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino warned a sultan on Tuesday he would face the "full force of the law" if he did not...
SHANGHAI: Fast food giant KFC has cut more than 1,000 farms from its supplier network in China to ensure food safety after a...
Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Tuesday Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency Buying...
Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway and Christoph Waltz with their Oscars. By Jill Serjeant Argo stormed to Best Picture victory at the...
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C-20 blasts off, carrying Indo-French satellite Saral from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota, yesterday. Sriharikota,...
NEW DELHI: The Aviation Ministry said yesterday it had withdrawn international flying rights and domestic slots from debt-laden Kingfisher Airlines, making more seats...
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a preliminary enquiry against 11 people, including former chief of air staff S P...
Bangalore: Karnataka’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday asserted that it was not planning to dissolve the assembly before its tenure ended though...
Patna: Bihar has borrowed a helicopter from Jharkhand for operations against Maoist rebels, a state minister told the state assembly yesterday. “Bihar is...
Jawanmard Paiz (left) and Fawad Mohammadi from Afghanistan, actors in the film Buzkashi Boys arrive at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California,...
KABUL: Armed groups connected to US special forces accused of torture and murders is said to have fuelled the decision of Afghan President...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan was hit by a nationwide blackout for more than two hours after the breakdown of a major plant caused power stations...
