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One arrested over Rs10m e-banking fraud 03 Feb 2013 - 03:45 am

Mumbai: One person was arrested yesterday and a hunt launched for 11 others in connection with a Rs10m illegal transfer from a businessman’s...

Kamal Haasan agrees to release film, with cuts 03 Feb 2013 - 03:45 am

Chennai: After talks with Muslim groups yesterday, Kamal Haasan has agreed to cut some scenes from his controversial film “Vishwaroopam”. The film will...

Govt open to consultations on bill 03 Feb 2013 - 03:44 am

Govt open to consultatioNew Delhi: After the union cabinet approved an ordinance to effect changes in laws against sexual crimes, the government yesterday...

Kerala CM asks media not to target Kurien 03 Feb 2013 - 03:44 am

Kochi: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy yesterday urged the media to refrain from linking Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien to the...

Bihar court gives death to rapist after nine-day trial 03 Feb 2013 - 03:44 am

Patna: Within nine days of a crime, a Bihar court yesterday awarded the death penalty to a man who raped and murdered a...

Kidnapping protest 03 Feb 2013 - 03:40 am

Afghan men chant for justice and punishment for kidnapping gangs involved in the killing of a 10-year-old boy during a demonstration in Herat,...

Cameron set for talks with Karzai, Zardari 03 Feb 2013 - 03:40 am

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan this weekend as part of moves to prevent a...

35 killed in Pakistan checkpoint attack 03 Feb 2013 - 03:39 am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Militants attacked an isolated army checkpoint in Pakistan’s restive northwest yesterday, with at least 35 people killed in the initial...

US needs to keep up drone war, says Panetta 03 Feb 2013 - 03:38 am

WASHINGTON: The United States will have to keep up an open-ended drone war against Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan and elsewhere to prevent...

Provincial govt woos Pakistani voters with free laptops 03 Feb 2013 - 03:38 am

RAWALPINDI: With elections just a few months away, the Punjab government is offering laptops to brilliant students of federal government educational institutions, provincial...

Pakistan exhumes graft investigator’s body for forensic investigation 03 Feb 2013 - 03:37 am

MULTAN: Pakistan’s forensic experts yesterday exhumed the body of an official probing a corruption scandal involving the prime minister, after the graft investigator...

4,000 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa employees reinstated 03 Feb 2013 - 03:36 am

PESHAWAR: The government of Pakistan’s north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has reinstated more than 4,000 civil servants, who were sacked by the second...

Nepal Maoists stage first post-war convention 03 Feb 2013 - 03:36 am

Chairman of Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Pushpa Kamal Dahal known as Prachanda (left) and Nepalese Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai (right) attend...

Japan arrests China fishing boat captain 03 Feb 2013 - 03:35 am

TOKYO: Japan’s coastguard arrested the captain of a Chinese boat on suspicion of illegal fishing in the country’s exclusive economic zone yesterday amid...

6.9 quake strikes off Hokkaido 03 Feb 2013 - 03:35 am

TOKYO: A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s Hokkaido island late yesterday, the US Geological Survey reported, but there was no warning of a...

Indonesia to execute convicts 03 Feb 2013 - 03:35 am

JAKARTA: Indonesia is set to execute some convicts on death row for murder and drugs offences in 2013 after not carrying out an...

Sri Lanka blocks international probe into impeachment 03 Feb 2013 - 03:35 am

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has blocked entry of a London-based group of lawyers who planned to probe the controversial impeachment of the island’s chief...

Arroyo praises Aquino for economic growth 03 Feb 2013 - 03:33 am

MANILA: Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo praised yesterday President Beningno Aquino for the impressive economic growth, but she also warned him that his anti-corruption...