New Delhi: A day ahead of parliament’s budget session, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde yesterday withdrew his “Hindu terrorism” remark that threatened to stall...
New Delhi: A day ahead of parliament’s budget session, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde yesterday withdrew his “Hindu terrorism” remark that threatened to stall...
NEW DELHI: An Air India pilot faces the wrath of his bosses after appearing in a YouTube video rapping about bad pay, ageing...
QUETTA: Scuffles broke out yesterday as Pakistani Shias buried the 89 victims of a second major bomb attack in five weeks, which has...
GENEVA: A Pakistani gang rape victim who became an international icon for daring to stand up to her attackers insists education is the...
KARACHI: Pakistan stands 31st out of 91 countries in the world with more than $6bn black market value, according to Havocscope. The website...
PESHAWAR: With less than one month remaining before the sitting coalition government’s five-year constitutional term ends, an atmosphere of caution and reluctance is...
A US marine holds a cobra during a jungle survival programme as part of the annual combined military exercises, Cobra Gold 2013, at...
BEIJING: China’s defence ministry yesterday rebuffed a report linking its People’s Liberation Army to sophisticated cyber attacks on US firms, saying there was...
SEOUL: North Korea has released a new propaganda video showing US soldiers and President Barack Obama burning in the flames of a nuclear...
MANILA: The Philippines said it was on “the right track” in seeking to have a UN tribunal strike down China’s claims to most...
TAIWAN: Taiwan plans to withdraw troops from two islets near the Chinese mainland and will turn them into tourist attractions, officials said. Tatan...
BANGKOK: Former Nepalese crown prince Paras Shah was in intensive care in Thailand after suffering a heart attack, the Nepalese Embassy in Bangkok...
DHAKA: Bangladesh yesterday signed a loan deal with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to build a metro rail system, costing $2.8 billion, to...
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s government resigned yesterday after mass protests against high power prices and falling living standards, joining a long list of European administrations...
PRETORIA: Witnesses claimed hearing arguing, a woman screaming and gunfire at the house of “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius the night he shot dead...
BERLIN: Germany’s federal prosecutor said yesterday that it had filed charges against two men over the alleged illegal export to Iran of dozens...
PARIS: Europe’s horsemeat scandal spread yesterday to Asia where an imported lasagne brand was pulled from the shelves in Hong Kong, as Czech...
Israeli M K Dov Khenin (left) listens to a Palestinian woman next to her house at Al Shuhada Street, in the West Bank...
