Jaipur: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M Veerappa Moily yesterday ruled out the possibility of government rolling back the decision allowing Oil marketing...
Jaipur: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M Veerappa Moily yesterday ruled out the possibility of government rolling back the decision allowing Oil marketing...
WASHINGTON: Two Senate Democrats have urged the White House to reconsider plans to shrink Afghan national security forces by a third after 2015,...
Two men in handcuffs, who the police said belong to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, are shown after their arrest during a news conference at...
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Fakhruddin G Ebrahim has welcomed the electoral reforms agenda agreed to between the Pakistani government and cleric Muhammad...
KABUL: Nato forces in Afghanistan have stopped sending prisoners to some Afghan jails after reports of torture and have asked Kabul to investigate...
PESHAWAR: Institutional shortcomings, fiscal constraints and defective training are responsible for an ineffective technical and vocational education and training system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,...
ISLAMABAD: The hollow-cheeked father of the slain television cameraman, Imran Sheikh, burst into tears while narrating the ordeal of his family. Imran Sheikh...
MANILA: All 79 officers and crew of a US Navy minesweeper stuck on a coral reef in the central Philippines have left the...
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a veiled warning yesterday to China not to challenge Japan’s control of disputed islands as...
NAYPYIDAW: Kachin rebels cast doubt yesterday over a Myanmar government pledge to end a military offensive after weeks of intense fighting that sparked...
MANILA: Foreign workers abducted by Islamist militants in Algeria were garlanded with explosives and put into trucks rigged with bombs, the wife of...
NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s leader vowed yesterday to put the nation’s impoverished people at the heart of reforms in a speech wooing international donors whose...
Presidential touch-up: US President Barack Obama paints shelves at Burrville Elementary School on a Day of Service, hoping to encourage Americans to follow...
Travellers doze off while waiting to board a cancelled flight at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 in London, yesterday. Thousands of passengers were forced...
London: David Cameron will deliver a “red-meat announcement” on Britain’s future in the EU, which he believes will satisfy all but a hard...
LONDON: Falkland Islanders will be asked specifically whether they want the archipelago to retain its status as a British overseas territory in a...
CARACAS: Venezuela’s newly appointed foreign minister said yesterday the decree that installed him in office is proof that ailing President Hugo Chavez is...
Doha: Under the patronage of the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani, the Federation...