Bhubaneswar: Land acquisition for Posco’s $12bn steel plant in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district passed off peacefully yesterday under heavy police presence, an official said....
Bhubaneswar: Land acquisition for Posco’s $12bn steel plant in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district passed off peacefully yesterday under heavy police presence, an official said....
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron (centre) with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s...
LONDON: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, said she was “getting better...
PESHAWAR: Pakistan is planning to build a $30m amusement park with a zoo and adventure sports facilities in the town where Osama bin...
ISLAMABAD: The outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is willing to hold talks with the government and security forces, spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said yearwesY. But...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP)decision to freeze all recruitments in public sector offices and ban the use of development funds for...
PESHAWAR: Like previous years, dozens of election petitions for disqualification of members of the provincial and national assemblies of Pakistan are likely to...
ISLAMABAD: With two cabinet decisions going ahead — a deal with Iran on a gas pipeline and the transfer of strategic Gwadar Port...
Moro National Liberation Front Commander Khabir Malik (front left) at their camp in Jolo, Sulu province, southern Philippines, yesterday. COTABATO, Philippines: Fierce fighting...
BEIJING: The official mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party yesterday roundly rejected claims of hacking attacks from China by American media outlets, hinting...
YANGON: Myanmar held fresh talks with Kachin ethnic minority rebels yesterday, vowing to keep up efforts to find an elusive breakthrough in a...
SEOUL: South Korea and the United States launched a joint naval exercise involving a US nuclear submarine yesterday, as tensions rise on the...
TAIPEI: The coming lunar Year of the Snake is likely to smile on South Korean rapper Psy with increased prosperity, but he will...
LEICESTER, UK: A skeleton found under a car park in the English city of Leicester last year was yesterday confirmed as that of...
PARIS: France has launched an investigation into a stillbirth that occurred after a full-term pregnant woman was sent home from an overrun maternity...
ABIDJAN: Suspected Nigerian pirates have hijacked a French-owned Luxembourg-flagged tanker along with its 17-member crew off Ivory Coast, Ivorian officials and the International...
KIDAL, Mali/PARIS: Tua-reg rebels in northern Mali said yesterday that they had captured two senior Islamist insurgents fleeing French air strikes toward the...
LONDON: Former British energy secretary Chris Huhne faces time behind bars after pleading guilty yesterday to perverting the course of justice by asking...
