MUMBAI: Mobile phone firm Reliance Communications (RCom) yesterday announced it has awarded a $1bn, eight-year contract to Swedish telecoms equipment-maker Ericsson to run...
MUMBAI: Mobile phone firm Reliance Communications (RCom) yesterday announced it has awarded a $1bn, eight-year contract to Swedish telecoms equipment-maker Ericsson to run...
by Moiz Mannan Last month, the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, spoke about how non-resident Indians (NRIs) find it emotionally and financially satisfying...
People searching for missing relatives look at photos of those killed in a stampede at the Allahabad railway station, outside a morgue in...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday said all telecoms operators whose licences were cancelled and who had not bid for fresh licences should...
Mumbai: Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) yesterday announced a Rs1m reward for anyone providing information on Indian Mujahideen chief Yasin Bhatkal and three of...
New Delhi: The income tax department has identified nearly 1.22 million possible evaders and will soon issue letters asking them whether they have...
AHMEDABAD: Guards in western India have foiled an attempt by prisoners accused of deadly bombings to tunnel their way out of jail using...
A container truck carrying supplies from Nato forces in Afghanistan crossing the Torkham border after entering Pakistan. ISLAMABAD: Starting the first phase of...
KABUL: An official investigation into torture in Afghan prisons has found widespread abuse, President Hamid Karzai said yesterday, following a UN report into...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top judge yesterday ordered a nationwide investigation of hundreds of “ghost” schools where teachers do nothing but draw salaries and buildings...
ISLAMABAD: All hopes of reaching a likely breakthrough between the government and the country’s largest opposition party with regard to a caretaker set-up...
PESHAWAR: The Pakistani Taliban yesterday warned shopkeepers in a popular market to stop selling “obscene films” and Viagra-style male potency pills. Shopkeepers said...
A photo provided by the Malacanang Photo Burea shows Philippine President Benigno S Aquino III (left), next to the chairman of the Moro...
MANILA: The world’s largest saltwater crocodile in captivity has died in the Philippines, 17 months after the suspected man-eater was hunted down and...
TOKYO: Japan plans to donate patrol boats costing $11m each to the Philippines, ramping up regional efforts to monitor China’s maritime activity in...
MANILA: People across the mainly Catholic Philippines feel regret, gratitude and sympathy after Pope Benedict XVI announced plans yesterday to resign, a presidential...
DHAKA: A bus carrying pilgrims to Bangladesh’s beach resort town of Cox’s Bazaar plunged into a dried up river yesterday, killing at least...
JAKARTA: As Indonesia and other countries with Chinese diasporas welcome the Year of the Snake, some Islamic leaders have ignited a religious row...
