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CBI, defence officials going to Italy 17 Feb 2013 - 04:44 am

New Delhi: The government yesterday named a two-member CBI team and a senior defence ministry official who are to leave for Italy soon...

The NR Eye: Andhra looks to shore up image among NRIs 17 Feb 2013 - 04:43 am

by Moiz Mannan Andhra Pradesh is at pains to dispel the clouds of uncertainty in the minds of foreign investors and non-resident Indians...

Court delays hearing for death row convicts 17 Feb 2013 - 04:42 am

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said yesterday it would hear “in due course” an execution appeal filed by four bandits convicted over a...

Namdhari charged with murder 17 Feb 2013 - 04:42 am

New Delhi: Delhi Police yesterday charged Uttarakhand minorities commission’s sacked chairman S S Namdhari and other accused with murder, conspiracy, kidnapping and destruction...

BJP fumes over surveillance of Arun Jaitley’s phone 17 Feb 2013 - 04:42 am

New Delhi: The BJP yesterrday demanded an explanation from Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on the alleged “unauthorised surveillance” of its leader Arun Jaitley,...

Artillery shells found in Delhi 17 Feb 2013 - 04:42 am

New Delhi: Three boxes of artillery shells were found near a railway track here, police said yesterday. “Three wooden boxes carrying three artillery...

Afghan forces banned from calling air strike 17 Feb 2013 - 04:41 am

KABUL: Afghan security forces will be banned from calling for Nato air strikes in residential areas to help in their operations, President Hamid...

Bomb kills 79 in Pakistan; Sunni group claims attack 17 Feb 2013 - 04:40 am

QUETTA: A bomb targeting Shia Muslims in a busy market in Pakistan’s insurgency-hit southwest killed 79 people including women and children and wounded...

MQM vows to quit ruling coalition 17 Feb 2013 - 04:40 am

KARACHI: Pakistan’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) threatened to quit the ruling coalition yesterday, piling fresh pressure on President Asif Ali Zardari ahead of...

Kabul bank draws just one bidder 17 Feb 2013 - 04:40 am

KABUL: An Afghan consortium has bid to buy New Kabul Bank, the remnants of Afghanistan’s largest private bank which collapsed in a fraud...

Taliban pressured by tribesmen to make deal with army 17 Feb 2013 - 04:38 am

ISLAMABAD: Pressure from Pakhtun tribesmen in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region has forced the Pakistani Taliban to seek a negotiated settlement of their war...

Blogger’s death rekindles Dhaka protests 17 Feb 2013 - 04:36 am

A boy waves a Bangladesh national flag before a mass funeral as the body of Rajib Haider arrives at Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka,...

Philippines calls for peaceful solution to Borneo stand-off 17 Feb 2013 - 03:51 am

Lahad Datu, Malaysia: The Philippines yesterday called for a peaceful resolution to a tense stand-off between Malaysian forces and a group of gunmen...

Malaysia to deport Australian senator 17 Feb 2013 - 03:51 am

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian authorities will deport an Australian senator after refusing him entry yesterday over what it said was his participation in an...

6.2 quake shakes Mindanao 17 Feb 2013 - 03:50 am

MANILA: A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Philippine island of Mindanao yesterday triggering panic, but there were no immediate reports of any...

Gold gifts for tsunami-hit Japan port 17 Feb 2013 - 03:50 am

TOKYO: A Japanese city devastated by the 2011 tsunami has received anonymous gifts of gold worth more than $250,000 in a phenomenon dubbed...

Gunmen shoot at Sri Lankan journalist, say police 17 Feb 2013 - 03:50 am

COLOMBO: Gunmen shot and wounded a journalist near Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, police said yesterday, the latest in a string of attacks against...

Russia counts cost of meteor strike 17 Feb 2013 - 03:49 am

Russian policemen on the lake where the meteorite is supposed to have struck, making an eight-metre hole in the frozen Chebarkul lake, yesterday. ...