TOKYO: Qatar, one of OPEC's smallest producers, has notified at least two Asian buyers that it will supply Marine and Land crude at...
TOKYO: Qatar, one of OPEC's smallest producers, has notified at least two Asian buyers that it will supply Marine and Land crude at...
TAIPEI: The coming lunar Year of the Snake is likely to smile on South Korean rapper Psy with increased prosperity, but he will...
A couple sits beside gifts during a mass marriage ceremony in Haripal, some 70km from Kolkata, yesterday. Some 108 couples from Hindu, Muslim...
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday gave his approval to an ordinance that awards stricter punishment for sexual crimes against women, including death...
New Delhi: A 20-year-old man was shot dead while his teenage girlfriend is battling for life after being shot here yesterday in what...
Hyderabad: Following protests by women’s and some right-wing groups, police in Visakhapatnam yesterday stopped the Kingfisher Fashion Week. While women and students demanded...
Kochi: With six full-fledged 24X7 news and four other channels that beam news for long spells every day, the most sought-after topic these...
Kochi: Restaurateurs in Kerala yesterday announced they would not sell food items made from chicken as it was not profitable, a claim rejected...
Freed Philippine hostages, cameraman Ramil Vela (in bed) and his colleague, audio technician Roland “Buboy” Letriro (left), are treated at the provincial hospital...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s navy yesterday rescued 138 Bangladeshis and Myanmar nationals from a sinking fishing vessel off the island’s east coast, officials said....
DHAKA: A Japanese aid agency has withdrawn its offer to lend Bangladesh $430m to help build the country’s biggest bridge after the project...
BEIJING: Japan yesterday released the captain and crew of a Chinese boat who had been detained on suspicion of illegal fishing, Chinese state...
YANGON: Myanmar will hold another round of talks with Kachin rebels today in a bid to end a conflict raging in the country’s...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka yesterday accused a London-based group of lawyers of undermining Colombo’s sovereignty and said a four-member team probing judicial independence was...
WASHINGTON: The man hailed as the deadliest military sniper in US history has been shot to death at a Texas firing range, allegedly...
ROME: Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi announced his “last great electoral and political battle” yesterday with a sweeping promise to cut taxes...
MADRID: Spain’s opposition Socialist Party called for the resignation of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy over a corruption scandal yesterday as a poll showed...
GUANTANAMO BAY: The US failure to shut down the detention camp at Guantanamo has Captain John Nettleton in a predicament. As commander of...