BEIJING: Chinese state media stepped up the war of words yesterday over allegations of sophisticated cyberattacks on US firms, branding the accusations a...
BEIJING: Chinese state media stepped up the war of words yesterday over allegations of sophisticated cyberattacks on US firms, branding the accusations a...
TOKYO: Japan said it hanged a child killer and two other convicted murderers yesterday, its first executions since a conservative government swept to...
TOKYO: Japan vowed yesterday to continue its whale hunt in the Southern Ocean after clashes with the militant conservationist Sea Shepherd group, which...
COLOMBO: Islamic clerics in Sri Lanka tried to calm religious tensions yesterday by telling stores to sell halal meat only to Muslims, after...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has decided to ban land sales to foreigners after finding that some offshore investors did not use land and property...
DHAKA: Bangladesh has launched a crackdown on Internet sites for “hurting religious feelings” in the majority Muslim nation amid protests by Islamic groups...
HYDERABAD: At least 12 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when bombs ripped through a crowded suburb of Hyderabad yesterday in...
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday said the UPA government was “burdened” by anxieties about the economic slowdown, job insecurity and security for...
2006 March: Blasts in a train station and a temple in Varanasi, Hinduism’s holiest city, leave 20 people dead, mostly devotees. July: A...
New Delhi: India’s financial sector, including public-sector banks, were shut and transport affected in large parts of the country during the last day...
Bangalore: Two ministers quit the Karnataka government yesterday and were set to resign from the assembly and the ruling BJP too amid speculation...
New Delhi: The CBI yesterday arrested a Gujarat police officer from Ahmedabad for his involvement in the alleged staged Ishrat Jahan shoot-out case...
US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta (left) holds talks with his Afghanistan counterpart Bismillah Khan Mohammadi (second right) and members of his delegation...
Pakistani schoolchildren recuperate at a hospital ward in Lahore, yesterday. Some 21 children and a teacher were treated for burns they had sustained...
LOS ANGELES: The teenage stars of an Oscar-nominated short film from Afghanistan arrived in Los Angeles on Wednesday for the Academy Awards after...
MULTAN: Pakistani police registered an accusation from a businessman yesterday that the country’s Ambassador to the United States had committed blasphemy, a crime...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday signed the Investigation for Fair Trial Bill 2013 into law during a special ceremony at the...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan State Oil may default on payments due this month unless state-run companies at least partially pay for their oil, a spokeswoman...